FICTION
Cuban-American novelist, translator, shortlisted for PEN/Faulkner Award; Days of Awe (Ballantine), Tower of the Antilles (Akashic), Boomerang / Bumerán (Beacon), The Boy Kingdom (Beacon)
Celebrated Brazilian novelist, winner of Saramago Prize; Symphony in White (Texas Tech), Crow Blue (Bloomsbury)
The most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th Century; Multitudinous Heart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Canonical Canadian writer; Lunar Attractions (Doubleday), I Had a Father (HarperCollins)
Writing professor at Sarah Lawrence, noted author of literary fiction; L.I.E. (Villard/Ballantine)
Iowa MFA Grad, Bread Loaf Scholar, MacDowell fellow; The Lowering Days (HarperCollins)
Writer of international thrillers; Face Blind (St. Martin’s Press)
Author of acclaimed Brazilian novel City of God (Grove Atlantic), the basis for the major motion picture
Angolan-Portuguese writer, winner of the Oceanos Prize; That Hair (Tin House), Zion (FSG, forthcoming), Luanda, Lisboa, Paradise (FSG, forthcoming)
Novelist of literary historical fiction, Harvard epidemiology professor; Canticle (Spiegel & Grau, forthcoming)
Winner of the São Paulo Literature Prize, Granta Best Young Brazilian Novelist; The House in Smyrna (Scribe), Vista Chinesa (Scribe)
Filipino-American writer of literary fiction, shortlisted for 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize; The Descartes Highlands (Akashic)
Eric Gamalinda
Winner of National Book Award, Whiting Award, Windham-Campbell Prize, MacArthur “Genius” grant; Counternarratives (New Directions), Punks (The Song Cave)
Classic Brazilian novelist; Max and the Cats (Penguin), The Centaur in the Garden (Ballantine)
Warren Wilson MFA, author of literary fiction; Twister (Black Lawrence Press), winner of Big Moose Prize for the Novel; Eggs in Purgatory (WTAW), Alcove Chapbook Series Open finalist
Acclaimed Filipino novelist, Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist, Palanca Prize winner; In Flight (Schaffner Press)
Writer of the Nicaraguan-American experience and San Francisco’s Mission District; Orlando and Other Stories (Pochino), Gente, Folks (Black Freighter Press)
Brazilian rockstar, author of international noir mysteries; Bellini and the Sphinx (Akashic)
NONFICTION
Biographer, Spanish literature scholar; Fidel & Gabo (Pegasus Books), De Gabo a Mario (Vintage Español)
Professor of Communications at Elon University, writer on international culture and media; Game On (University of Nebraska Press); Over/Under (Pegasus, forthcoming)
Environmental journalist contributing to The New York Times, The Nation, The Atlantic; Satellites in the High Country (Island Press), Remember the Earth (W.W. Norton, forthcoming)
Journalist and essayist, writes on nature and the environment for Smithsonian, The Verge, San Francisco Chronicle
Literary biographer, Guggenheim Fellow, University of Delaware English professor; Republic of Words (UPNE)
Economic development specialist, USAID, chronicler of Jewish history; The Heavens Are Empty (Pegasus)
Oncologist, bestselling Brazilian author; Carandiru Station (Simon & Schuster UK), subject of film by Héctor Babenco
Scholar of Latin American poetry and literature, finalist for PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography; Neruda: The Biography of a Poet (Ecco)
Spirits & cocktail writer and researcher, Alcademics website founder; Doctors and Distillers (Penguin)
Journalist, historian, contributor to Chicago Tribune, Salon, and others; Nothin’ but Blue Skies (Bloomsbury), Midnight in Vehicle City (Beacon), Chorus of the Union (Pegasus)
Columbia MFA grad, journalist, contributor to NYT Magazine, Harper’s, The Nation; American Oasis (Pantheon, forthcoming)
Yale School of the Environment grad, journalist, contributor to High Country News, the Atlantic, Sierra magazine; Grass People (Bloomsbury, forthcoming)
Journalist covering food, wine, cocktails, and travel in Afar, Vogue, Saveur, and others; How the Gringos Stole Tequila (Chicago Review Press)
Journalist, former United Nations spokesman in Sri Lanka; The Cage (Random House UK / Bellevue Literary Press US)
Brazilian journalist and author of bestselling popular history The Flight of the Emperor, 1808 (Lyons), over 800,000 sold in Brazil
Journalist; Early (HarperCollins), Taking Care (HarperCollins)
CULINARY ARTS
Co-owner of Death & Co cocktail bars in NY, LA, and Denver; Death & Co (Ten Speed Press), Cocktail Codex (Ten Speed Press), Death & Co Welcome Home (Ten Speed Press)
Culinary director at Serious Eats; former editor at Food & Wine magazine
Chef at Gabriel Kreuther NYC, formerly of The Modern, Beard Award-winner for Best Chef New York; Craft & Comfort (Abrams)
Executive Chef and Instructor at Michigan Department of Corrections Lakeland Correctional Facility
Mochi Mommy blog founder; Mochitsuki (Chronicle, forthcoming)
Farmer and co-owner of The Chef’s Garden; The Chef’s Garden (Avery)
Owner of Smuggler’s Cove Tiki Bar in San Francisco, James Beard winner; Smuggler’s Cove (Ten Speed Press)
James Beard Award–nominated food writer, master home cook, and producer; Watermelon and Red Birds (Simon & Schuster), The Up South Cookbook (Countryman), The Maroon House (Abrams, forthcoming)
Master sommelier and Meilleur Ouvriers de France (MOF), Racine’s wine bar in Tribeca NYC; Mille Vignes (Hachette Pratique, in English as One Thousand Vines from Mitchell Beazley)
Artist, founder of Del Maguey mezcals; Finding Mezcal (Ten Speed Press)
Chef, co-owner of Californios, a Michelin-starred haute Mexican restaurant in San Francisco
Culinary scientist, founder, Pilot R + D, consultant to Thomas Keller, Daniel Humm, and Corey Lee, TEDx speaker, educator; Ingredient (Ecco)
Mixologist, Edible Jersey beverage columnist, Slow Food Alliance member; Slow Drinks (Hardie Grant)
Peruvian chef, owner of 29 restaurants worldwide; Peru: The Cookbook (Phaidon Press)
Celebrated Spanish chef, grandfather of new Basque cuisine, 3 Michelin stars since 1989; Arzak Secrets (Grub Street)
Former senior food editor, Food & Wine magazine; The Modern Potluck (Clarkson Potter), co-author of The Chef’s Garden (Avery)
Di Palo’s Fine Foods in Little Italy NYC; Di Palo’s Guide to the Essential Foods of Italy (Ballantine)
NYT-bestselling author, winner of Saveur Best Food Blog, star of “Girl Meets Farm” on Food Network; Molly on the Range (Rodale), Home Is Where the Eggs Are (William Morrow)
Expert on traditional and contemporary foods of Nigeria, blogger and educator at Kitchen Butterfly; Chop Chop (Artisan)
Wine director, owner, Terroir Wine Bars in NYC
Oglala Lakota chef, activist, educator, Indigenous Food Lab founder; The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (University of Minnesota), Turtle Island (Clarkson Potter, forthcoming)
Oakland-based purveyor of quality Japanese products, specializing in sake and spirits, founded by Kayoko Akabori and Yoko Kumano; Everyday Sake (Clarkson Potter, forthcoming)
PhD Director of Experimental Cuisine Collective, NYU; co-author of François Payard Cookies (HMH), Dessert: The Cookbook (Phaidon)
Co-owner of Death & Co cocktail bars in NY, LA, and Denver; Death & Co (Ten Speed Press), Cocktail Codex (Ten Speed Press), Death & Co Welcome Home (Ten Speed Press)
Cocktail pioneer, owner of Clover Club in Brooklyn; The Craft Cocktail Party (Grand Central)
Chef and farmer at 3 Michelin star SingleThread in Healdsburg, CA, formerly of The Fat Duck and Michel Bras in Hokkaido; SingleThread (DK Publishing, forthcoming)
Award-winning mixologist, winner of Netflix’s “Drink Masters” Season 1, former R&D chef for Silver Lyan in DC
Owner of Nitecap bar on Lower East Side NYC, Imbibe Bartender of the Year; Drink Lightly (Clarkson Potter)
Creator and director of The Taco Chronicles on Netflix
French Laundry Alum, Silver Medal Winner and Gold Medal Coach at Bocuse d'Or; Chasing Bocuse (Prestel)
Bay Area-based Filipino-American-Mexican fusion food truck and restaurants founded by Gil Payumo and Evan Kidera
Chef, co-owner of Union Hmong Kitchen, Minneapolis
Owner of Guelaguetza Oaxacan Restaurant in Los Angeles; Oaxaca (Abrams), Asada (Abrams)
NYT-bestselling author, Gullah Geechee elder, culinary matriarch of Edisto Island in South Carolina; Gullah Geechee Home Cooking (Abrams)
Editor of L.A. Taco, Teenage Glutster blogger; co-author of Oaxaca (Abrams), co-author of Asada (Abrams)
Award-winning bartender (Tales of the Cocktail Foundation), founder of San Francisco bar Pacific Cocktail Haven (James Beard-nominee for Outstanding Bar)
San Francisco nonprofit kitchen incubator; We Are La Cocina (Chronicle Books)
Award-winning mixologist and co-creator of Speed Rack, the world’s first all-female bartending competition; Recipes, Wisdom, and General Badassery from the Women Shaking up the Cocktail World (Abrams, forthcoming)
Chef and sustainability pioneer, The Coast in Big Sur, formerly of Bar Tartine and Duna; Bar Tartine (Chronicle Books)
Puerto Vallarta native and expert on coastal Mexican cuisine, co-director of IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals); Pacifico (Voracious, forthcoming)
Founder and CEO of Brooklyn-based artisanal ice cream company Malai, specializing in South Asian flavors; Malai (Weldon Owen)
Chef at No. 7 Brooklyn & No. 7 Sub; A Super-Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches (Clarkson Potter)