Sue Monk Kidd, Chairperson
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Isabel Allende
Margaret Atwood
Judy Blume
Alexander Chee
Henri Cole
Michael Cunningham
Kwame Dawes
Nelson DeMille
Cornelius Eady
Joshua Ferris
Janet Fitch
Jonathan Franzen
Neil Gaiman
Joy Harjo
Adam Haslett
Jane Hirshfield
Major Jackson
Tayari Jones
Christina Baker Kline
Jhumpa Lahiri
Dylan Landis
Min Jin Lee
Barry Lopez
Valeria Luiselli
Suzanne Lummis
Rebecca Makkai
Walter Mosley
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Joyce Carol Oates
Claudia Rankine
James Richardson
Roxana Robinson
Roger Rosenblatt
George Saunders
Stacy Schiff
Vijay Seshadri
Susan Richards Shreve
Emma Straub
Peter Straub
Cheryl Strayed
Arthur Sze
Quincy Troupe
Lily Tuck
Scott Turow
Hilma Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer
Jenny Xie
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