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)
Brazilian writer and musician; Budapest (Grove Atlantic), Spilt Milk (Grove Atlantic)
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)
Celebrated Brazilian novelist, winner of Saramago Prize; Symphony in White (Texas Tech), Crow Blue (Bloomsbury)
Canonical Canadian writer; Lunar Attractions (Doubleday), I Had a Father (HarperCollins)
Iowa MFA Grad, Bread Loaf Scholar, MacDowell fellow; The Lowering Days (HarperCollins)
Prolific Portuguese novelist, Winner of the Grande Prémio SPA/Millennium, the Premio Luso-Español de Arte y Cultura, the Vergílio Ferreira Award; Mercy (Archipelago Books, forthcoming)
The most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th Century; Multitudinous Heart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Writing professor at Sarah Lawrence, noted author of literary fiction; L.I.E. (Villard/Ballantine)
Novelist of literary historical fiction, Harvard epidemiology professor; Canticle (Spiegel & Grau)
Classic Brazilian novelist; Max and the Cats (Penguin), The Centaur in the Garden (Ballantine)
City College MFA candidate; None But Ourselves (Washington Square Press, forthcoming); Journalist covering food, wine, cocktails, and travel in Afar, Vogue, Saveur, and others; How the Gringos Stole Tequila (Chicago Review Press)
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)
Writer of the Nicaraguan-American experience and San Francisco’s Mission District; Orlando and Other Stories (Pochino), Gente, Folks (Black Freighter Press)
Author of acclaimed Brazilian novel City of God (Grove Atlantic), the basis for the major motion picture
Winner of the São Paulo Literature Prize, Granta Best Young Brazilian Novelist; The House in Smyrna (Scribe), Vista Chinesa (Scribe)
NYT-Bestselling author; The Lotus Eaters (St. Martin’s Press), The Forgetting Tree (St. Martin’s Press), The Last Good Paradise (St. Martin’s Press), The Removes (Sarah Crichton Books)
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)
Oncologist, bestselling Brazilian author; Carandiru Station (Simon & Schuster UK), subject of film by Héctor Babenco
Journalist, formerly of the Minnesota Star Tribune; The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
Brazilian journalist and author of bestselling popular history The Flight of the Emperor, 1808 (Lyons), over 800,000 sold in Brazil
Journalist covering international conflict and the environment
Economic development specialist, USAID, chronicler of Jewish history; The Heavens Are Empty (Pegasus)
Journalist, historian, contributor to Chicago Tribune, Salon, and others; Nothin’ but Blue Skies (Bloomsbury), Midnight in Vehicle City (Beacon), Chorus of the Union (Pegasus), Voices of America (St. Martin’s, forthcoming)
Environmental journalist contributing to The New York Times, The Nation, The Atlantic; Satellites in the High Country (Island Press), The Earth Said Remember Me (W.W. Norton)
Journalist and essayist, writes on nature and the environment for Smithsonian, The Verge, San Francisco Chronicle; Leaving for Good (University of California Press, forthcoming)
Journalist; Early (HarperCollins), Taking Care (HarperCollins), Women in the Time of Monsters (Abrams, forthcoming)
Spirits & cocktail writer and researcher, Alcademics website founder; Doctors and Distillers (Penguin), The Ice Book (Red Lightning Books)
Journalist, former United Nations spokesman in Sri Lanka; The Cage (Random House UK / Bellevue Literary Press US)
Journalist contributing to Harper's, The New Yorker, The Economist, Outside, Wired, TIME, Orion, The New York Times, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, Sierra Magazine; Into the Dark Sky (Liveright, forthcoming)
Scholar of Latin American poetry and literature, finalist for PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography; Neruda: The Biography of a Poet (Ecco); Art as a Weapon (Yale University Press, forthcoming)
Literary biographer, Guggenheim Fellow, University of Delaware English professor; Republic of Words (UPNE)
Professor of Communications at Elon University, writer on international culture and media; Game On (University of Nebraska Press), Over/Under (Pegasus)
Baker, miller, writer, teacher, founder of Bellegarde Bakery, James Beard finalist, Iowa MFA candidate; Bread Crumbs (Harper, forthcoming)
Columbia MFA grad, journalist, contributor to NYT Magazine, Harper’s, The Nation; American Oasis (Pantheon), Out to Pasture (Pantheon, forthcoming)
Yale School of the Environment grad, journalist, contributor to High Country News, the Atlantic, Sierra magazine; Grass People (Bloomsbury, forthcoming)
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)
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; A Quick Drink: The Speed Rack Guide to Winning Cocktails for Any Mood (Abrams)
Chef and sustainability pioneer, The Coast in Big Sur, formerly of Bar Tartine and Duna; Bar Tartine (Chronicle Books)
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)
Oglala Lakota chef, activist, educator, Indigenous Food Lab founder; The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (University of Minnesota), Turtle Island (Clarkson Potter)
Chef, co-owner of 3 Michelin star Californios, 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)
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), Matcha Mania (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 Emerging Voice Award winner, 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
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; Vinai (Voracious, forthcoming)
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), Sweet Farm! (William Morrow)
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)
Chef at No. 7 Brooklyn & No. 7 Sub; A Super-Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches (Clarkson Potter)
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)
Duxbury Bay oyster farm supplying to The French Laundry, Per Se, and other leading restaurants
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; Cooking up Cocktails (Union Square & Co., forthcoming)
Owner of Nitecap bar on Lower East Side NYC, Imbibe Bartender of the Year; Drink Lightly (Clarkson Potter)
Puerto Vallarta native and expert on coastal Mexican cuisine, co-director of IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals); Pacifico (Voracious, forthcoming)
Artist, founder of Del Maguey mezcals; Finding Mezcal (Ten Speed Press)
Oakland-based purveyor of quality Japanese products, specializing in sake and spirits, founded by Kayoko Akabori and Yoko Kumano; Everyday Sake (Clarkson Potter)