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Grenville is an Australian author who has received the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and Orange Prize, and whose work has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Hogan is a poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories.

Kokesh is the Managing Director, at Rampart Assets.

Pate is a lawyer with the law firm of Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC and a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Palau.

Yvonne Georgina Puig, originally from Houston, received her bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2004. Her debut novel, A Wife of Noble Character, was published in hardcover by Henry Holt & Co in 2016, and in paperback with St. Martin’s Griffin in 2017. She’s...

Redford is Founder and President of The James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness (JRI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about the need for organ and tissue donation through film, educational outreach and the web.

Smith is the Chief Operating Officer of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

Storrs is a Portland, Oregon-based celebrity chef and co-owner of Portland’s Noble Rot restaurant.

Urrea is a Mexican-American novelist and professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois Chicago. His memoir, Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life, received the American Book Award in 1999 and his nonfiction book, The Devil’s Highway: A True Story, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Williamson was a successful science-fiction writer from 1928 to 2005. He was named the second Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1976 and inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1996. He is credited with inventing the term “terraforming” in a 1942 short story.