Claire Dederer

Claire Dederer is the bestselling author of two critically acclaimed memoirs: Love and Trouble and Poser. Her new nonfiction book, Monsters, is based on her viral Paris Review essay "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?" Monsters will be published by Knopf in April 2023. Claire's writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, Vogue, Slate, and many other publications. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency and is currently on the faculty of the Creative Writing MFA at Pacific University.

Sonora Jha

Sonora Jha is the author of the novel The Laughter, forthcoming from Harper Via in February 2023. Her memoir How to Raise a Feminist Son was published in the U.S., India, and Brazil in 2021, and her debut novel Foreign by Random House India in 2013. After a career as a journalist covering crime, politics, and culture in India and Singapore, she moved to the United States to earn a PhD in media and public affairs. Her OpEds, essays, and public appearances have been featured in the New York Times, on BBC, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies including the Barry Lopez Fellowship at Playa Summer Lake, Hedgebrook, Hugo House, and Residency L'Ancienne Auberge in France. Dr. Jha is a professor of journalism at Seattle University, and she also teaches fiction and nonfiction for Hugo House, Hedgebrook, Creative Nonfiction, and Seattle Public Library.

Angela Garbes

Angela Garbes is the author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, called “a landmark and a lightning storm” by the New Yorker. Her first book, Like a Mother, was an NPR Best Book of the Year and finalist for the Washington State Book Award in nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Cut, New York, Bon Appétit, and featured on NPR's Fresh Air. Garbes is also a community advocate for reproductive justice, working families, and equity and inclusion. A first-generation Filipina American, she lives with her family in Seattle. 

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Jessamine Chan

Jessamine Chan’s short stories have appeared in Tin House and Epoch. A former reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her first novel, The School for Good Mothers, is a New York Times best seller and a Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club pick. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter. 

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