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Rob Wesson is a geophysicist whose career in earthquake research with the U.S. Geological Survey spans four decades. He is currently a Scientist Emeritus at the USGS and his work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. He divides his time between his home in Evergreen, Colorado and the cabin he built in McCarthy, Alaska.

A former West Coast editor of W, West writes about culture, food, lifestyle, and design for numerous publications. The Co-Creative Director of Grand Central Market in Los Angeles and a certified Master Food Preserver, he produces a retail collection of jams and marmalades.

Genevieve West is a professor and chair of the English, Speech, and Foreign Languages department at Texas Women’s University. She is the editor of Zora Neale Hurston’s Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (Amistad, 2020) and co-editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Hurston’s forthcoming collected essays.

Paige Wetzel is the wife of wounded warrior and Afghanistan veteran Josh Wetzel. When not writing books together, they both work at Auburn University.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft is a journalist and author. In 1975, he joined the weekly Spectator as Assistant Editor, and from 1977 to 1981 was Literary Editor as well as columnist and reporter. He left to work freelance, to report from South Africa, and to write his first book, The Randlords. In 1985-6 he edited the ‘Londoner’s Diary’ of the Evening Standard, whose opera critic he subsequently became.

After several years as a columnist with the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Express he is now once more freelance, writing regularly for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the TLS in London, as well as the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s in America. He was formerly a Contributing Editor to the New Republic, and for some years he broadcast as the British correspondent for Radio Ireland in Dublin.

He was born in London, the son of an economist and a social worker, and educated at University College School in Hampstead and as a Scholar of New College, Oxford, where he read Modern History.

White is Challis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Sydney specialising in African American history. His last book, Prince of Darkness (2015) won the Society of the Historians of the Early American Republic’s Best Book Prize and the New York Society’s New York City Award.

A graduate of Yale and the University of Virginia School of Law, Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) was nominated by President Bill Clinton to be Rhode Island’s US Attorney in 1994. Her served as Rhode Island’s US Attorney until 1998, when he became State Attorney General. He was elected to the United States Senate in 2007.

Aliya Whiteley writes across many different genres and lengths. Her first published full-length novels, Three Things About Me and Light Reading, were comic crime adventures. Her 2014 SF-horror novella The Beauty was shortlisted for the James Tiptree and Shirley Jackson awards. The following historical-SF novella, The Arrival of Missives, was a finalist for the Campbell Memorial Award, and her noir novel The Loosening Skin was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award.She has written over one hundred published short stories that have appeared in Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Strange Horizons, The Dark, McSweeney’s, Internet Tendency and The Guardian, as well as in anthologies such as Unsung Stories’ 2084 and Lonely Planet’s Better than Fiction.She also writes a regular non-fiction column for Interzone.

Alden Wicker is an award-winning journalist and sustainable fashion expert who’s written investigative pieces and deep dives on innovation, materials, and consumer trends for The New York Times, Vogue, Wired, the Cut, Vox, Vogue Business, InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar, Quartz, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Glamour, Popular Science, Newsweek, Refinery29, and more.

Former Executive Food Editor of Refinery29, Weidemann created the blog Impatient Foodie in July 2015. Previously, she had a cooking show on Vogue.com called "Elettra’s Goodness," prior to which, she worked as a model for 10 years and was the face of Lancome cosmetics. She has a Masters Degree in Biomedicine from the London School of Economics.

Lis Wiehl is a former legal analyst for Fox News. She is also the former co-host of WOR radio's “WOR Tonight with Joe Concha and Lis Wiehl,” has served as legal analyst and reporter for NBC News and NPR’s All Things Considered and as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s office, and was a tenured professor of law at the University of Washington. Today, she appears frequently on CNN as a legal analyst.Lis Wiehl is considered one of the nation’s most prominent trial lawyers and highly regarded commentators. She earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and her Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Queensland.Wiehl is the author of 19 books including Hunting The Unabomber, Hunting Charles Manson, The 51% Minority, which won the 2008 award for Books for a Better Life in the motivational category, and Winning Every Time.

James Williams is a writer, speaker and philosopher. He was the inaugural winner of the Nine Dots Prize, worth $100,000, in 2017.

He received his PhD from Oxford, where he studied under Professor Luciano Floridi. He has been a research associate at the OII’s Digital Ethics Lab, a visiting researcher at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, a tutor in the Oxford Computer Science department, and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Prior to this he worked for over ten years at Google, where he received the Founders’ Award – the company’s highest honour – for his work. He is a co-founder of the Time Well Spent campaign, a project that aims to steer technology design towards having greater respect for users’ attention, goals and values. James is a frequent speaker, consultant for companies and governments, and commentator on technology issues in the media.

Of Chinese descent and born in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams is an attorney, a mother (of Mia and Isabelle), a wife (of Josh Williams) and the author of the blog, My Cancer-Fighting Journey. This is her first book.

Rusty Williams is the author of the forthcoming book Deadly Dallas: A History of Unfortunate Incidents and Grisly Fatalities (The History Press, 2021); as well as Red River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle (Texas A&M Press, 2016), which won the Oklahoma Book Award and was named 2016's Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society; My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans (University Press of Kentucky, 2011); and Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s (Turner, 2010). Rusty regularly speaks to historical societies, book groups, and cultural gatherings; and contributes articles to historical magazines and journals.

With Eric Prum, Josh Williams is a founder of W&P Design, an innovative food and beverage company based in Brooklyn, NY, composed of a growing group of individuals passionate about the intersection of food and design.

Jessie Williams is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on global current affairs, humanitarian issues, women’s rights, migration, culture, and politics—with the aim of exploring the human stories behind the headlines.

She has worked on a diverse array of stories which have taken her around the world, from walking through minefields in Lebanon, to visiting refugee camps in Iraq, covering the 2023 elections in Turkey, shadowing a psychologist helping displaced children in Armenia, and speaking to women fleeing war and domestic abuse in Ukraine. Closer to home, she’s investigated the UK’s asylum-seeker housing and treatment of migrant survivors of domestic abuse, and exposed an elite French university’s #MeToo reckoning.  

Her work has been published in TIME Magazine, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, BBC News, Al Jazeera, The i Paper, The Telegraph, VICE World News, openDemocracy, Huck Magazine, The New Arab, and others.

In 2021 she was shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards and in 2022 she was a winner of MHP Mischief's 30 To Watch Young Journalist Award in the international affairs category. In 2019 she was longlisted for Spread The Word’s London Short Story Prize.

Jessie has a First Class degree in Journalism from City, University of London. She is based in London.

Daniel Willingham is Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. He is the author of Why Don't Students Like School?, When Can You Trust the Experts?, Raising Kids Who Read, and The Reading Mind.

BriAnne Wills is a fashion and beauty photographer in New York. Her work has been published in Teen Vogue, Nylon, Spin, Italian Vogue, and ELLE, and her clients include Refinery29, Wildfang, Milk Makeup, Buxom Cosmetics, Maybelline, Shiseido, and The Coveteur.BriAnne has also produced social media content for Meow Mix, Persil Pro Clean, and Fresh Step, and shot the ad campaign for a new cat food company called Smalls (think of it as Blue Apron for cats), created by the former director of marketing for Thinx, the start-up that makes period-proof underwear.

Casey Wilson is an actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer known for Happy Endings, Saturday Night Live, Marry Me, Gone Girl, Showtime’s Black Monday, and HBO’s series Mrs. Fletcher, as well as her popular podcast Bitch Sesh.

Eric Wilson is a veteran fashion and style journalist based in New York and Hong Kong, where he most recently was editorial director of Tatler Asia Group overseeing its eight editions published in the region. He was previously a reporter for The New York Times and WWD, and fashion news director for InStyle.

Miranda Wilson has been an actress and a corporate spy. Artistic endeavours include London theatre and dance production managing, dancing at the Royal Festival Hall, co-writing an Edinburgh Fringe show, touring Germany performing in two nightmarish Theatre in Education shows, plus she wrote, and performed in, a satirical short about roadkill.

Her first novel, Collecting, was published to critical praise by Crux in 2014. She lives in Somerset.

Elizabeth Winder is a poet and graduate of the College of William and Mary, with an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Review, Antioch Review, and American Letters, among other publications. She is the author of Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 (HarperCollins) and Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy (Flatiron Books).

Mary Ann Winkowski, paranormal investigator and consultant to CBS’s Ghost Whisperer, is author of When Ghosts Speak (Grand Central) and co-author, with Maureen Foley, of The Book of Illumination and The Ice Cradle (Three Rivers/Crown), the first two titles in the Ghost Files mystery series.

Keely Winstone is a journalist, dramatist and documentary film-maker specialising in recent history.

Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Independent, and her plays include Mrs Assad and Me, about the British wife of the Syrian President (Royal Court, Orange Tree) and The Sex Lives of Others, an Edinburgh Fringe sell-out (‘sharp and well-observed’ - the Scotsman). Her historical films cover topics including the British Army’s Brigade of Gurkhas’ attempts to climb Everest, the D-Day landings (My D-Day, Amazon Prime), and Mountbatten (Mountbatten: Hero or Villain?, Channel 5).

Sean Fay Wolfe is a seventeen-year-old Eagle Scout and writing prodigy. He is the author of the Minecraft fan fiction series The Elementia Chronicles (HarperCollins).

Christian Wolmar is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, Labour Party campaigner, and author of 20 books, principally on transport.

Described by the Guardian as ‘the greatest expert on British trains’, he is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading commentators on transport matters. His work appears regularly in publications including The Times (London), the Guardian, the Oldie and the Spectator. He was named Transport Journalist of the Year in the National Transport Awards in 2007, and was a board member of Cycling England.

James Womack is a Cambridge-based poet and novelist. He studied Russian, English and translation at university, and received his doctorate, on W.H. Auden's translations, in 2006. He lived in Madrid from 2008 to 2017, and now teaches Spanish and translation at Cambridge University. He is a freelance translator from Russian and Spanish, and helps run Calque Press, which concentrates on poetry, translation and the environment. His debut collection of poems, Misprint, was published by Carcanet in 2012, and On Trust: A Book of Lies came out in 2017.

Annie Won is a New York based Freelance Author-Illustrator who loves Mochi (she’s my kitty not a rice cake), picture books, and anything sweet with strong coffee! 

She is the illustrator of books for children, and she also teaches at FIT, Pratt and Queens College as an Art Professor.

Raised in a Korean American household by his grandmother, Brian honed his artistic skills at the Art Center College of Design, where he earned a BFA in illustration. His awards include the Silver Medal from the Society of Illustrators and the Crystal Kite from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Currently residing in Southern California, Brian continues to craft stories and illustrations for young readers.

Kelvin Wong was featured on Love on the Spectrum, Netflix’s hit docuseries that follows autistic people on their search for love, where he met Jodi Rodgers, the relationship specialist who consulted with the show’s participants about the potential romantic partners they were meeting. A talented illustrator,  Kelvin collaborated with Jodi Rodgers on the graphic novel, LET’S MEET.

As one of the only members of his family not to have been employed by the Secret Intelligence Service, Alistair Wood has enjoyed a reassuringly respectable (and successful) career in advertising, working in the UK, US, Korea, and South-East Asia. He lives in London.

Billed as ‘part memoir of a unique childhood and part investigation into the singular life of his father, MI6 spy J B Wood’ his My Family & Other Spies was sold to Michael Joseph at auction in 2024. It will be published in 2025.

Joe Woodhouse grew up on farms in Cambridge and Scarborough. In his twenties he trained as a chef and worked in restaurants before embarking on a career as a food stylist and food and travel photographer. Joe has been a vegetarian since he was ten years old and has since developed a deep understanding of flavoursome vegetarian cooking that draws its inspiration from seasonality and good ingredients. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

https://woonheng.com/

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Jim Worrad spent ten years as a terrible rock and roller before settling into life in the midlands. He's always wanted to write fantasy books. He lives in Leicester with his cat and boyfriend.

Everett Worthington is professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, a leading member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and the author of numerous books on forgiveness, most recently Moving Forward: Six Steps to Forgiving Yourself and Breaking Free from the Past (WaterBrook Multnomah).

Having worked as a Senior Broadcast Journalist for BBC Sport, a digital designer at The Sunday Times, page artist on Trinity Mirror’s The New Day, sub editor at the Morning Star and layout sub editor at the Guardian, Suzanne was approached in 2017 by the Guardian’s head of sport to become the first person to write regularly on women’s football for a national newspaper. Having written for the Morning Star and various fanzines, she began what was originally a weekly column with the Guardian in June 2017. She now writes for the Guardian and Observer full time, covering domestic and international women’s football. Her work has appeared across footballing media in the past, including the likes of FourFourTwo and The Guardian Football Weekly Podcast, where she is a regular contributor on women’s football.

Tom Wright is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a regular contributing writer at The Atlantic, and the author of the book All Measures Short of War (Yale University Press, 2017). His book with Colin Kahl, Aftershocks, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press.

Ben Wright has been a Political Correspondent for the BBC since 2008. After two years leading the political coverage for BBC Breakfast and the One O'Clock News, Ben became the Chief Political Correspondent for Radio 4 in 2012, appearing daily on the Today Programme, World at One and PM.

He has covered a general election, budgets, Presidential visits, Prime Ministerial trips and an expenses scandal. Wright is the author of Order! Order! The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking which was published by Duckworth in 2016.

Duncan Wu is Raymond A. Wagner Professor in Literary Studies at Georgetown University. He is an internationally acknowledged authority on Romanticism and the world's leading authority on the life and work of William Hazlitt.

He is the author of twenty-two books about the Romantic period and Victorian poetry, including the widely used textbook Romanticism: An Anthology (Wiley); Hazlitt: The First Modern Man (Oxford University Press, 2008); The New Writings of William Hazlitt (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Wordsworth's Poets (Carcanet; 2003). He lives in McLean, Virginia.

His anthology Dog-eared - Poems About Humanity's Best Friend was published by Basic Books in the US in 2020.

His poetry collection, Origin Myths will be published by Shearsman Books in 2025.

The fifth edition of his seminal Romanticism will be published by Wiley in 2025.

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A longtime food and travel journalist, Wulfhart writes the “Carry-On” column for the New York Times. Her work has also been published in Travel + Leisure, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Traveler, the Wall Street Journal Magazine, and elsewhere.

Clive D. Wynne is a professor of behavioral psychology at Arizona State University where he also directs the Canine Science Collaboratory. The author of the textbook, Animal Cognition, and an academic book on animal intelligence, Do Animals Think?, Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You is his first trade book.

Jenny Xie is a writer and editor based in Oakland, California. Originally from Shanghai, she graduated from UC Berkeley and earned her MFA at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Ninth Letter, Joyland, Adroit Journal, Narrative, The Offing, and the Best of the Net Anthology, among other publications, and she is the recipient of a Bread Loaf scholarship and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Kundiman, Aspen Words, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her debut novel Holding Pattern is forthcoming from Riverhead in 2023.

Olivia Yallop was an influencer strategist, trend forecaster and head of Fairy Futures at The Digital Fairy, an all-female creative agency and digital consultancy based in London. She has a degree from the University of Oxford. She has guest lectured at the London College of Fashion on the subject of brands and social media. She hosts a DigiDebates panel series (social media-related discussions held as an old-school style debate) at Soho House in London, and also a Fairy Futures podcast. She also writes a monthly pop-cultural tech column for Miss Vogue, aimed at encouraging the next generation of women in digital.

Deputy national editor at the New York Times, Jia Lynn Yang has edited and published stories about economics, immigration, China, business history, and political history. She was previously the deputy national security editor for the Washington Post, her writing has appeared in the Post and in Fortune, and she has been a guest on NPR’s Morning Edition, The Diane Rehm Show, and PBS Newshour.

Jonathan Yates is Executive Director of the Youth Endowment Fund, a £200m charitable fund focused on integrating young people into society, and designed the UK’s National Citizen Service. He has appeared on BBC News, Sky News, ITV News, Radio 4’s ‘The Moral Maze’, Radio 4’s ‘You and Yours’, BBC London Radio, LBC, local BBC Radio stations, and has been featured in the Independent, the Guardian, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail.

Celebrity interior designer, HGTV alum and regular columnist for HGTV magazine and The Washington Post, Yip has made over countless homes during his four seasons on TLC’s Trading Spaces and NBC’s Home Intervention.

Mitch Yockelson is a professor of military history and the chief historian for the United States World War One Centennial Commission. He leads the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archival Recovery Program and investigates the theft of historical documents. He has taught at the United States Naval Academy and is currently a professor in Norwich University (Northfield, VT) Military History master’s program. He is the author of five books and has written numerous book reviews and articles published in professional journals, popular magazines and newspapers including The Washington Post and The New York Times. He lectures internationally as one of the foremost authorities on military history and has served as an on-screen consultant to the History Channel, PBS, and the Pentagon Channel.

Tomoko Yokoi is a writer, management researcher and entrepreneur. She is a regular Forbes.com contributor on digital transformation and innovation. With a background in international affairs and business, she focuses on stories at the intersection of business, technology and society.

Jenna Yoon is a debut author and has spent equal amounts of time living in Korea and the U.S. She holds a BA in Art History from Wellesley College, and a MA in Korean Art History from Ewha Woman’s University. Lia Park and the Missing Jewel is her middle grade debut.

Born and raised in California, Helen Yoon graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a BS in chemistry and from Art Center College of Design with a BFA in illustration. Helen is an author-illustrator and creative consultant and the creator of acclaimed picture books. She writes and draws for a living. 

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Mat Youkee (London, 1981) is a freelance journalist and professional investigator who has reported on Latin America from his base in Bogotá, Colombia, since 2010.  He has an extensive on-the-ground knowledge of Colombia and a wide network of relationships in the region having worked on complex investigations with international consultancies, government organisations and private clients. He has written regularly about indigenous rights issues in Latin America during his reporting for media outlets including the Guardian, the Economist, the Telegraph, Americas Quarterly and Foreign Policy.

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Hester Young has an MFA from the University of Hawaii and is the author of The Gates of Evangeline, The Shimmering Road, and The Burning Island (Putnam).

Heather is the author of two novels. Her debut, The Lost Girls, won the Strand Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for an Edgar Award. The Distant Dead was published on June 9, 2020, and was named one of the Best Books of Summer by PeopleMagazine, Parade, and CrimeReads. A former antitrust and intellectual property litigator, she traded the legal world for the literary one and earned her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2011. She lives in Mill Valley, California.

Emma Young is an award-winning science and health journalist and author. She has worked on titles including the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and the New Scientist, for which she worked as a senior online reporter in London and Australasian Editor in Sydney. Now employed by the British Psychological Society as a Staff Writer, she is also a freelance journalist and author. A regular contributor to Mosaic and the New Scientist, her work is carried widely by other media outlets, including BBC and the Atlantic.

As E.L. Young, she is also the author of a series of science-based thrillers for children. Her awards include Feature of the Year, awarded by UK Medical Journalist’s Association, 2017, Australian Health Journalist of the Year (2010), Writer of the Year at the Australian magazine industry Bell Awards, and a European Online Journalism award for best news story.

Growing Young author Sergey Young has been an investor and venture capitalist for twenty years, with a multi-billion portfolio under management. Founder of the Longevity Vision Fund, he is an Advisory Board Member at UK's Parliamentary Group on Longevity, a member of the Forbes Technology Council and Development Sponsor of the Age Reversal XPRIZE.

Alora Young is a college student, an actor, and the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and she has performed her poetry on CNN, CBS, and the TEDx stage. Originally from Tennessee, Young currently attends Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.