Ann Packer is the acclaimed author of two collections of short fiction, Swim Back to Me and Mendocino and Other Stories, and three bestselling novels, The Children’s Crusade, Songs Without Words, and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies, and her novels have been published around the world. She and her husband divide their time between New York, the Bay Area, and Maine. Her new novel, SOME BRIGHT NOWHERE, is forthcoming from Harper in 2026

‍Gemma Ruiz Palà (Sabadell, 1975) is a Catalan journalist and a writer. She has worked on the news desk at Televisió de Catalunya since 1996, specialising in cultural affairs. Her debut novel, Argelagues (Proa, 2016) became a literary phenomenon with twelve reprints so far and excellent critical reception. Her second novel, Ca la Wenling, was simultaneously published in Catalan (Proa, 2020) and Spanish (Destino, 2020) and has been translated into English (Heloïse Press) and Italian (Voland).  In 2023 she won the best endowed and the most prestigious prize in Catalan Literature, the Sant Jordi Award, for her third novel Les nostres mares (Proa, 2023).‍

A second-generation Cuban-American, born and raised in the exile community in Miami, Florida, Raul Palma is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Ithaca College. His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Alimentum, Chattahoochee Review, Greensboro Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and Sonora Review. His short fiction was selected by Aimee Bender for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2018. His collection of short fiction, IN THESE WORLDS OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT was awarded Indiana Review’s 2021 Don Belton Prize, having previously been a finalist for the Review’s Blue Light’s Book Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Prize.

Andrew Palmer has written about The Bachelor for Slate and The Paris Review Daily. His work has also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, Indiana Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the Toast, and the New Yorker's daily "Shouts and Murmurs.” A former Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. His debut novel The Bachelor is forthcoming in 2021 from Hogarth.

Seth Panitch is a playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He is a Professor of Theatre and heads the MFA Acting program at the University of Alabama. Antique is his first book.

Nishita Parekh, a software programmer, lives in Texas with her husband and son.

Janice Pariat is theauthor of the novel Seahorse, the bestselling novella The Nine-Chambered Heart, and the short story collection Boats on Land. She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction in 2013. Her art reviews, book reviews, fiction, and poetry has featured in a wide selection of magazines and newspapers across India. In 2014, she was the Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Kent, UK, and most recently, in 2019, a writer-in-residence at the Toji Cultural Foundation, 21 South Korea. She teaches creative writing and the history of art at Ashoka University and lives in New Delhi, India, with a cat of many names.

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Patricia Park is the author of the debut novel Re Jane, a contemporary Korean-American retelling of Jane Eyre (Pamela Dorman Books/Penguin-Viking). Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, and Slice Magazine, among others.

Adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine, where he teaches a course on biological threats to food and agriculture, Parker has formerly served as Acting Director of Homeland Security for the Agricultural Research Service of USDA. He holds a PhD in biological oceanography and has published and lectured on bio- and agroterrorism.

Patricia Pearson is an award-winning author and the recipient of three Canadian National Magazine Awards, the Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian nonfiction crime writing, and a North American Travel Journalism Association award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Toronto Life, Reader’s Digest, The Toronto Star, National Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, More, TheGlobe and Mail, TheDaily Telegraph, Business Week, NPR, CBC Television, The History Channel, and TV Ontario, among many others. In 2003, she was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, Canada’s version of the Mark Twain prize.

Bestselling author of The Manny, The Idea of Him, and Smoke & Fire, Peterson was a producer for ABC News, and a writer and contributing editor for Newsweek.

Marine Peyrard worked in the cultural and popular education sectors before devoting her time to her activities as an author and photographer. Her first poetry work, Viande à viol, was published in 2021 (republished in 2024) and she is the author of the poetic tale La princesse sans reflet, illustrated by Mirion Malle (Éditions Daronnes, 2023). Her first novel, A la fin nous ferons histoire, was published in 2024.

Sebastian J. Plata was born in Poland, grew up in Chicago, and spent most of his twenties living in Tokyo. He is now based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to writing, he also works as a Japanese/English translator.

Dan Pope is the author of the novels In the Cherry Tree (Picador) and Housebreaking (Simon & Schuster). He received the Glen Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters and a grant in fiction from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop on a Truman Capote Fellowship.

Alana S. Portero is a transgender Spanish activist and writer.

Carolyn Prusa has been published in the Charlotte Observer, Greensboro News and Record, Savannah Magazine, and South Magazine, and her taste in literature is as varied as the small objects you might find beneath the seats of her minivan. Surrounded by dudes, she lives in Savannah with her husband, two sons, and giant rescue wookie dog, Dale.

Hanna Pylväinen is the author of the novels We Sinners and The End of Drum-Time, a finalist for the National Book Award. Set in 1851 in a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, The End of Drum-Time it is the story of an ill-fated love affair between a renegade preacher’s daughter and a young reindeer herder. Bestselling author Anthony Marra hails it for “some of the most gorgeous prose imaginable and an extraordinary feat of imagination.” Yiyun Lee says of Plyväinen, she is “one of the most unique voices in American literature.”

Plyväinen’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and she was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition. She is the winner of a Whiting award and received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Princeton University, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writing. Plyväinen received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Anne Raeff is the author of the novels Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia, Winter Kept Us Warm, and Only the River and the short story collection The Jungle Around Us, which won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have been published in journals such as The New England Review, Zyzzyva, and Oa.

Zara Raheem received her MFA from California State University, Long Beach. She is the recipient of the James I. Murashige Jr. Memorial award in fiction and was selected as one of 2019's Harriet Williams Emerging Writers. Her debut novel The Marriage Clock was named a "must-read book of the summer” by Cosmopolitan, POPSUGAR, Bustle, BookRiot, among others; and it has already been translated into Italian and Portuguese. Her second novel The Retreat will be forthcoming in 2023, and she is currently working on a short story collection that centers around the South Asian diaspora, the Muslim-American experience, and the struggles and hardships faced by first and second-generation immigrants. She resides in Southern California where she teaches English and creative writing.

Ladette Randolph is the author of the novels A Sandhills Ballad, Haven's Wake, and the forthcoming Private Way; the debut short story collection This Is Not the Tropics; and the memoir Leaving the Pink House.  A Sandhills Ballad was selected as a New York Times Editors Choice, and her work has won the highest praise.  The reviewer of  Haven’s Wake in Booklist  wrote, “Randolph thoughtfully contemplates truth in a world of evasiveness.” Her debut short story collection, This Is Not the Tropics, was hailed by the reviewer for Publishers Weekly as “utterly remarkable…Quite honestly, this is the finest collection I’ve seen in years.” 

A long-time Nebraskan, Randolph spent her childhood in the same part of west-central Nebraska where her family lived for five generations. She is the recipient of four Nebraska Book Awards, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Virginia Faulkner Award, and a citation from Best New American Voices. Recently retired, she was the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares at Emerson College for fifteen years.  She lives in the Boston area.

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Devika Rege was born and raised in Pune. Her first novel will be published in 2023 by Fourth Estate, HarperCollins India.

Adam Resnick is the author of Will Not Attend, a pseudo-memoir, and is a television and movie writer who has written for The Larry Sanders Show, Late Night with David Letterman and has authored numerous movies, including the classic Death to Smoochy, directed by Danny DeVito.

A keen outdoorsman, David Ricciardi is an avid sailor and has received extensive training from law enforcement and US special operations. These experiences inform his thriller writing, which began with the first book in his Jake Keller series, Warning Light, published by Berkley in 2018.

Ex-graphic designer, Laurier The Fox is a trans activist, illustrator, and graphic novel writer. He draws and addresses mainly social and political subjects close to feminism, LGBTQIAP+ issues, anti-racism, ableism, etc. His first graphic novel ReconnaiTrans was published by Éditions Lapin in 2021. He also illustrated and did the sensitivity reading for the children’s book Je m’appelle Julie (On ne compte pas pour du beurre, 2022)

Anthony Riches is the bestselling author of the Roman epic Empire series and has recently launched a new action/adventure thriller series. He has a degree in Military Studies and a life-long curiosity in all things defence, security and policing related. He lives in rural Suffolk with his life partner and an irritable cat.

Florence Rivières is an author, script and gamewriter. They navigate within various forms and genres in literature, and wrote the script for Tu n’auras pas mon silence, a graphic novel published by Marabulles in 2024.

Charlotte Rixon studied Classics at Leeds University and went on to gain an MA in Screenwriting. She has worked as a journalist, and more recently as a content marketing specialist working on luxury brands.

Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, Kelsey Ronan's work has been published in Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Utne Reader, and elsewhere. Her writing has been nominated for Best American Essays 2017, among other prizes and special publications. In 2017, she was chosen as the spring writer-in-residence of the Hub City Writers Project. She lives in Detroit and works for InsideOut Literary Arts.

Leonard Rosen is the author of the award-winning novel All Cry Chaos (Permanent Press), which was translated into 10 languages, and its prequel The Tenth Witness (Permanent Press). A beloved college math professor based in Massachusetts, Leonard has contributed radio commentaries to Boston’s NPR station, written best-selling textbooks on writing, and taught writing at Harvard University.

Phoebe Rowe was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and studied history and journalism at NYU. She works as a brand copywriter and resides in Brooklyn, New York.

A novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, Rudnick has written three books and frequently writes for The New Yorker. His articles and essays have also appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and Spy. His screenplays include InandOut and Addams Family Values, and his plays include I Hate Hamlet. Using the pseudonym Libby Gelman-Waxner, Rudnick wrote film criticism for Premiere magazine.

Craig Russell is a multiply published Scottish author whose work has been translated into 22 languages. He is the author of the Lennox detective novel series, set in Glasgow in the 1950’s, as well as the Jan Fabel mystery series, set in Hamburg, Germany, made into a popular series for German television. Aevitas represents the North American rights to his newer novels on behalf of his primary agents, David Higham & Associates.

Anjali Sachdeva’s fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Tor.com, among other outlets. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Augustana College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD is her first book and winner of the 2019 Chautauqua Prize and 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (Santiago de Compostela, 1968) is one of the most important contemporary female Spanish writers. She is also a literary critic and a translator, and coordinates several writing workshops. She is the author of the novels Las lagartijas huelen a hierba (Lengua de Trapo, 1999), Bueyes y rosas dormían (Siruela, 2001), Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey (Anagrama, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 2004), Alas (Trama Editorial, 2005), Coco (2007), Los escarpines de Kristina de Noruega (Roca Editorial, 2011, finalist to Premio Espartaco de Novela Histórica), Ellibro de Julieta (Grijalbo, 2011), Las Inviernas (The Winterlings, Anagrama, 2014), Alguien bajo los párpados (Someone Beneath Your Eyelids, Anagrama, 2017), and La nostalgia de la Mujer Anfibio (The Longing of the Amphibian Woman, Anagrama, 2022). She is also the author of the award-winning short story collection El niño que comía lana (The Boy Who Ate Wool, short stories, Anagrama, 2019). Her work has been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Russian.

DaVaun Sanders is the author of the middle grade book Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew. He serves as Executive Editor for FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, winner of the WorldFantasy, British Fantasy and Hugo Awards.

Jonathan Santlofer is an artist and award winning writer, most recently of the critically acclaimed thriller The Last Mona Lisa, and the memoir The Widower’s Notebook. His debut novel, The Death Artist, an international bestseller, is currently in development for screen adaptation. Anatomy of Fear, won the Nero Award for best novel. He is the creator and editor of several anthologies including It Occurs to Me That I Am America, a collection of original stories and art. His paintings and drawings are included in many public and private collections. He lives in New York City.

Yaffa S. Santos was born and raised in New Jersey. She is the author of A Taste of Sage, which was named an Indie Next List Pick and Amazon Editor’s Pick, Winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Novel–Romance, and the forthcoming A Touch of Moonlight. Yaffa is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied writing and visual art. She enjoys books, coffee, and the beach, and lives in Central Florida with her family.

Marta Sanz is an award-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and scholar, and one of Spain’s leading feminist writers. In the last two decades she has written 15 novels and four collections of poetry, in addition to her edited anthologies and frequent contributions to major Spanish media publications including EL PAÍS, El Mundo, Público and Infolibre. She is a frequent guest commentator and public speaker at mainstream media outlets and literary events.

Sanz’s novels tackle social issues, challenge contemporary thinking with innovative literary styles, engage readers with insightful treatments of topical themes and entertain with biting satire. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into talian and Hungarian.

Originally from south Louisiana, Blake Sanz won the 2021 Iowa Short Fiction Award for his collection of short stories, The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, selected by Brandon Taylor. It was also a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and longlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction. His essays, interviews, and short stories have appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Missouri Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. He has been a work-study scholarship recipient at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a scholar at the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria, a guest panelist at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans and Napa Valley Writers’ Workshop, and a funded participant at The Community of Writers. His work has also been recognized by the Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Competition, and he has held residencies at Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming, Art Farm in Nebraska, and Elsewhere Studios in Colorado. Son of a Mexican father and a Cajun mother and a graduate of the MFA program at Notre Dame, he teaches fiction at the University of Central Florida.

From her home in England, Lou Sarabadzic writes, creates and translates. She is the author of seven books in various genres, including the poetry collections Ensemble and Je ne sais faire rien d'autre que vivre (La Crypte), the jubilant Éloge poétique du lubrifiant (Le Nouvel Attila, 2021), and the comic book Toujours trop ou pas assez, en finir avec la rhétorique foireuse du patriarcat (Mango Society, 2022), illustrated by Marko Mille.

Margie Sarsfield is a Reno-based writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Normal School, Seneca Review, Northwest Review, CutBank, Salt Hill and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2019 Calvino Prize and holds a MFA from Ohio State University.

Ayşegül Savaş is the author of the novel Walking on the Ceiling. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Guernica, The Paris Review Daily, Pleiades and her next novel, White on White, is forthcoming from Riverhead.

Bobuq Sayed is an Afghan cultural worker who divides their time between Berlin and Miami. They were a Steinbeck fellow at San José State University in 2022-2023 and their writing has received support from Tin House, Kundiman, and the Lambda LiteraryEmerging Writers Retreat. Bobuq is the author of A Brief History of Australian Terror, a chapbook forthcoming from Common Room Editions in 2024, and the co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices from Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen and Unwin).

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Emily Schultz is the cofounder of the influential Joyland magazine. Her newest novel, Little Threats, was published by GP Putnam's Sons and was named an Apple Books Best of November 2020 pick. Her novel, The Blondes, released in the U.S. with St. Martin’s Press and Picador, and in Canada with Doubleday was named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews. Schultz's writing has appeared in Elle, Slate, Evergreen Review, Vice, Hazlitt, and Prairie Schooner. She is currently a producer at indie media company Heroic Collective and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

Claire Schultz was born and raised in New Jersey but moved to the UK to study children's literature. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and now works in publishing. She lives in London with a haunted cat.

Edward Schwarzschild is the author of the novel Responsible Men and the story collection The Family Diamond. His stories and essays have appeared in The Guardian, Hazlitt, Tin House, The Yale Journal of Criticism, The Virginia Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, The Believer and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, NYFA Fellow in Fiction, and Fulbright Scholar, he is now Director of Creative Writing at the University at Albany, SUNY, and a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute.

Pinar Selek is a sociologist, feminist and anti-militarist activist. With a particular interest in oppressed and marginalised groups, she fell victim to the repression suffered by intellectuals in Turkey, and was imprisoned in 1998. Since then, she has been acquitted four times, but the Turkish government insists on appealing, so the trial has been going on for 25 years. She lives in France, where she has published several books, including fiction, short stories, essays and articles. Azucena ou Les fourmis zinzines, her latest novel (Des femmes, 2022), has been published in Turkey and Italy. Éditions des Femmes has also published her latest essay, Le Chaudron militaire turc, un exemple de production de la violence masculine in 2023.

Alan Shapiro is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently Reel to Reel.  He is also the author of the memoirs The Last Happy Occasion and Vigil, and the novel Broadway Baby. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Kingsley Tufts Award, and he was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Elizabeth L. Silver is the acclaimed author of The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty (Penguin Press, 2017) and the novel The Execution of Noa P. Singleton (Crown, 2013). Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, New York Magazine, McSweeney’s, Lenny Letter, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review, The Millions, The Dallas Morning News, among other publications. Her next novel, Memoirs of a Justice, is forthcoming from Riverhead Books.

Kevin Sites is an award-winning journalist, author and Associate Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. He has worked as a reporter for more than thirty years, half of that covering war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, Yahoo and Vice News. He’s the author of three books on war: In the Hot Zone, The Things They Cannot Say and Swimming with Warlords. The Ocean Above Me is his first novel.

Beck Dorey-Stein spent five years as a White House Stenographer. Prior to transcribing President Obama and Trump, she taught high school English. Beck graduated from Wesleyan University, where she worked in undergraduate admissions and served as captain of the women's lacrosse team.

Amanda Sthers is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker. She has written ten novels which have been translated in more than fourteen countries, and was given the title of "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by the French government. Her latest novel, Holy Lands, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

Cheryl Strayed is the internationally acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail; Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar; and Brave Enough. The New York Times Book Review hailed Wild as “a literary and human triumph." It has sold over four million copies and has been translated into more than forty languages. Wild became a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern. 

Strayed’s New York Times bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things has been embraced by readers worldwide. The Hulu series based on the book premiered in 2023, and an Off-Broadway play has been staged nationwide. Her book Brave Enough collects more than one hundred of her inspiring quotations. Strayed is also the author of the debut novel Torch and co-host of two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars.

Cheryl Strayed’s stories and essays have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, and elsewhere and have been widely anthologized. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels HOLD STILL, WANT, and most recently, FLIGHT. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Bomb, Guernica, Literary Hub, Catapult, Elle.com, The Cut, New York Magazine, LARB, The Millions, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Princeton and her next novel THE FLOAT TEST is forthcoming from Mariner Books

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of the debut novel Big Girl, a New York Times  Editors’ Choice  and named one of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Month. Big Girl was hailed by the New York Times Book Review as  “achingly beautiful," and in  a starred review, Publishers Weekly raved “Sullivan charms in her stunning debut novel about a Black girl’s coming-of-age... This is a treasure.” Big Girl has won the highest praise from bestselling authors, including Kiese Laymon, who hails it as “a new American classic.” For Janet Mock, it is “a tender and sumptuous offering of beauty.”  And from Jacqueline Woodson, “Sullivan has given us a gift as big, beautiful and complicated as living itself.”

Sullivan’s award-winning short story collection, Blue Talk and Love, won the Lambda Literary Judith A. Markowitz Award for emerging LGBTQ writers. Among Sullivan’s many other honors and awards are the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Temple University, and a B.A. in Afro-American Studies from Smith College. Sullivan is a Professor of English at Georgetown University.

Shubhangi Swarup is a writer and educator. Latitudes of Longing, her debut novel, was a bestseller soon after its release in India and has been published in seventeen languages worldwide. It won the Tata Literature Live! Award for debut fiction, was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Indian Literature, and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020 and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship for creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and has also won awards for gender sensitivity in feature writing. She lives in Mumbai.

Karin Tanabe is the author of the historical fiction novels The Diplomat's Daughter and The Gilded Years (soon to be a major motion picture), as well as The List and The Price of Inheritance, all published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Her latest novel, A Hundred Suns, is out now from St. Martin's Press.A former Politico reporter, her work has appeared in dozens of publications including The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer and in the anthology Crush: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush.