Authors
Susan is the author of five books, including her most recent novel Landslide, published by Knopf. She’s been awarded multiple MacDowell Colony Fellowships, as well as a Breadloaf Workshop Fellowship, a Maine Arts Commission Literary Fellowship, and a Massachusetts Art Commission Fellowship. She has also won the Maine Literary Award and the Maine Award for Publishing Excellence, and her poetry collection was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Harvard Review, The Daily Beast, The New England Review, Ploughshares and other publications. Her Tedx talk on the “Power of Story” has been widely viewed, and she is the co-founder of the Telling Room, a creative writing center for youth. She also teaches on the faculty of the Stonecoast Writing Program.
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JoAnn Chaney is the author What You Don’t Know, which was longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and was one of BookRiot’s Best Mysteries of the Year and As Long As You Both Shall Live, which was optioned by Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories before it was published in 2019. She lives in Colorado with her family.
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Megan Campisi is a playwright, novelist, and teacher. Her plays have performed in China, France, and the United States. She has been a forest ranger, sous-chef in Paris, and a physical theater specialist around the world. She attended Yale University and the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. In 2019 she received a Fulbright Specialist award to travel to Turkey and give master classes at Tatbikat Theatre. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Megan lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.
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Sarah Blake is the author of Full Turn, a book of poems, and three novels: Grange House, and the award-winning, New York Times bestsellers, The Postmistress and The Guest Book. She lives in Washington DC.
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Leila Aboulela grew up in Khartoum and has been living in Aberdeen since 1990. She is the author of six novels among them River Spirit, The Translator, Minaret and Lyrics Alley, Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Leila was the first ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing and her story collection, Elsewhere, Home won the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages, and she has also written numerous plays for BBC Radio. She is Honorary Professor of the WORD Centre at the University of Aberdeen and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Alexandra Potter is the bestselling author of numerous romantic comedy fiction novels in the UK, including One Good Thing and Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up, one of the bestselling books of 2022 and 2023 and the basis of a major TV series. These titles have sold in twenty-eight territories and achieved worldwide sales of more than one million copies, making the bestseller charts across the world.
Yorkshire born and raised, Alexandra lived for several years in LA before settling in London with her Californian husband and their Bosnian rescue dog. When she’s not writing or travelling, she’s getting out into nature, trying not to look at her phone and navigating this thing called mid-life.
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Ramla Ali is a Somali-born, London raised professional boxer, model and activist. She took up the sport of boxing aged 12, training and competing in secret from her family for over ten years. Ramla rose to early prominence as the two-time winner of the national amateur championships in England and winning the Great British Championships. With over seventy-five amateur fights under her belt, Ramla made history by becoming the first boxer to have won an international gold medal whilst representing the country of Somalia and the first female to turn professional. Ramla is a Nike Global Athlete and brand ambassador for Pantene, Coach and Cartier. She is a proud ambassador of UNICEF, Coach’s ‘Dream It Real’ foundation and Choose Love.
Carole Cadwalladr is an internationally renowned journalist who, alongside reporters from The New York Times, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for her work on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. Other awards she has won include the 2018 Orwell Prize, the 2018 Polk Award, the 2018 Stieg Larsson Award, and the 2019 Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative Reporting. Her TED Talk (link here) in June 2019 has been watched by over 8 million people and she appeared in the award winning documentary The Great Hack.
Cadwalladr’s debut novel, The Family Tree, was published by Penguin in 2005 and earned consideration for several literary prizes. It was adapted into a five-part miniseries on the BBC’s Radio 4.
Cadwalladr is currently a features writer at The Observer.
Historian, writer, philosopher, screenwriter and TV documentary maker, Roland Portiche is a man of many talents. On top of his doctorate in philosophy, his degree in literature, and his diploma in cinema, he has also directed more than 300 of French television shows.
His career as a novelist began in 2017, with four novels published by Albin Michel/Versilio, including his trilogy Ernetti, a breathtaking thriller telling the incredible true story of a time machine hidden in the Vatican’s secret archives.
Annabelle Roberts grew up in rural Canada as the oldest of ten children in a Mormon family. She was the first woman in her family to start a business and have a career. She chalks her success up to maintaining her rejection quota: three daily during the week, and two on the weekend. You Had Me at “No Thank You!” is her first book; she’s currently developing a television show in France that helps struggling businesses turn things around.