MARGARET ATWOOD, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Her new book is the essay collection Burning Questions, published in March. Her latest novel, The Testaments, is a co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. It is the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning TV series. Her other works of fiction include Cat’s Eye, finalist for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; the MaddAddam Trilogy; and Hag-Seed. Among her other awards are the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award.

FREDDIE BITSOIE is a proud Navajo and an award-winning chef. Most recently he was the executive chef of Mitsitam Native Foods Café, located in Washington, D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. He is the winner of the Smithsonian’s Native Chef Competition and has contributed to a number of cookbooks, including America: The Cookbook (Phaidon, 2017) and James Beard Award winner Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). His most recent cookbook is New Native Kitchen, co-written with James Beard Award–winning author James O. Fraioli, in which he shares his culinary insights into Native American cooking and celebrates the rich Indigenous heritage of American cuisine.

LOUISE BOYLE is the New York–based senior climate correspondent for The Independent, an international news organization. Boyle has spent fifteen years covering climate, politics, and social issues for a range of leading news organizations in the U.S., the U.K., and Ireland.

SHERRI BURR’s twenty-seventh book, Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virginia: 1619-1865 (Carolina Academic Press, 2019), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Her legal and business books have won numerous New Mexico–Arizona Book and New Mexico Press Women awards. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Princeton University, and the Yale Law School, Dr. Burr was the recipient of a Monticello Fellowship to work on Complicated Lives. In 2017 she retired from the University of New Mexico, where she was the first African American woman to be awarded tenure, to become a full-time author. In 2021, Burr was named the New Mexico Press Women Communicator of Achievement and won the National Federation of Press Women Communicator of Achievement award.

SANDRA CISNEROS is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, and visual artist whose work explores the lives of Mexicans and Mexican Americans. Her numerous awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Medal of Arts, a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, and the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. Her classic novel The House on Mango Street has sold more than six million copies and has been translated into over twenty-five languages. Her latest book is Martita, I Remember You/Martita, Te Recuerdo, a story in English and in Spanish (Vintage, 2021).

LYNN CLINE is the award-winning author of Literary Pilgrims: The Santa Fe and Taos Writers' Colonies (University of New Mexico Press, 2007), The Maverick Cookbook: Iconic Recipes and Tales from New Mexico; (Leaf Storm Press, 2015), and Romantic Days and Nights in Santa Fe (Globe Pequot Press, 2001). She has presented numerous lectures about the Santa Fe and Taos writers’ colonies around the country, from the Mennello Museum of American Art, in Orlando, Florida, to the New Mexico Museum of Art, in Santa Fe, and the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College. Cline’s articles have appeared in publications around the country, including The New York Times, Sunset, Publishers Weekly, Ploughshares, New Mexico Magazine, and Edible New Mexico. She hosts Cline’s Corner, a weekly talk show featuring authors, artists, curators, chefs, and other personalities, on Santa Fe Public Radio’s KSFR 101.1 FM.

BRYAN CURTIS is editor-at-large of The Ringer, the Los Angeles–based website and podcast network. He writes about the media and hosts The Ringer’s twice-weekly Press Box podcast, where he conducts long-form interviews with journalists, novelists, and TV personalities. He is a former national correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a columnist at Slate, Texas Monthly, Grantland, and Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine. His stories have appeared in The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Travel Writing.

WILLIAM DEBUYS is the author of ten books, including The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures (one of The Christian Science Monitor’s ten best nonfiction books of 2015) and A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American West. His River of Traps (with photographer Alex Harris) was a Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist in 1991. His most recent book, The Trail to Kanjiroba: Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss, appeared in 2021. He has been a Kluge Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress (2018), a Guggenheim Fellow (2008-2009), and a Lyndhurst Fellow (1986-1988). He served as founding chair of the Valles Caldera Trust, which administers the 89,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve (2001-2004). DeBuys lives on the farm he has tended since 1976 in New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

ASHLEY C. FORD’s New York Times bestselling memoir Somebody’s Daughter was published by Flatiron Books in 2021. It’s a brilliant story about reckoning with your past to take hold of your future—of finding love for those you have yet to forgive. Ford is the former host of the podcast The Chronicles of Now and the co-host of the HBO companion podcast Lovecraft Country Radio. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with her husband, poet and fiction writer Kelly Stacy, and their chocolate Lab, Astro Renegade Ford-Stacy. Ford has written or guest-edited for Elle, Slate, Teen Vogue, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Domino, Cup of Jo, and various other web and print publications.

JOHN GRISHAM was working as a lawyer in Mississippi when one day he overheard the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim and decided to write a novel that explored what might have happened if the girl’s father had murdered her assailants. That book, A Time to Kill, was published in 1988, and Grisham has since written thirty-five more novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers. His name has long been synonymous with the modern legal thriller, with 300 million books in print and translations in forty languages. Nine of his novels have been turned into films. His most recent novel is Sooley (Doubleday, 2021).

ROSHI JOAN HALIFAX is a Buddhist teacher, social activist, and author, and the founder and head teacher of Upaya Zen Center, in Santa Fe. She has received many awards and honors from institutions around the world for her work as a social and environmental activist and in the end-of-life care field. She is director of the Project on Being with Dying and founder of the Upaya Prison Project, which develops programs on meditation for prisoners. She is also founder of the Nomads Clinic, in Nepal. Her books include The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice, A Buddhist Life in America: Simplicity in the Complex, Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Wisdom in the Presence of Death, and Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet. Her latest release is the children’s book Sophie Learns to Be Brave.

JOY HARJO is the United States Poet Laureate. She is the first Native American to hold the position and only the second person to serve three terms in the role. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. She is also the author of two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior. She has edited several anthologies of Native American writing, including Living Nations, Living Words, the companion anthology to her signature poet laureate project. Her many awards include the Jackson Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is also a renowned musician, and her most recent album is I Pray for My Enemies. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

ANNE HILLERMAN continues the Navajo detective stories made popular by her father, Tony Hillerman. Her debut mystery, Spider Woman’s Daughter, received the prestigious Spur Award from the Western Writers of America as best first novel. That book and the five novels that followed were all New York Times bestsellers. Her sixth mystery, Stargazer, was released in 2021 and debuted at No. 7 on the Times bestseller list. Before becoming a novelist, the Santa Fe–based Hillerman was a nonfiction author and award-winning journalist. The next novel in the Leaphorn/Chee/Manuelito saga, The Sacred Bridge, her seventh and the twenty-fifth in the series, will be published by HarperCollins in April 2022.

CHERYL ALTERS JAMISON is the author of Tasting New Mexico: Recipes Celebrating 100 Years of Distinctive Home Cooking and the recipient of four James Beard Foundation Book Awards and an International Association of Culinary Professionals award. On her own and with her late husband, Bill Jamison, she has written some 20 books, including The Border Cookbook, Texas Q, Texas Slow Cooker, and American Home Cooking. She has appeared on the Today show and on the Food Network with Bobby Flay. Cheryl is host of the Heating It Up radio show and is the narrator of the upcoming TV docuseries Foods of Santa Fe. She also created the famous New Mexico Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail, and teaches at the Santa Fe School of Cooking. She’s a four-decade resident of the village of Tesuque, north of Santa Fe.

CRAIG JOHNSON is the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the hit Netflix original drama. The books have won multiple awards: Le Prix du Polar Nouvel Observateur/BibliObs, the Wyoming Historical Association’s Book of the Year, Le Prix 813, the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award, the Mountains & Plains Book of the Year, the SNCF Prix de Polar, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, the Watson Award, Library Journal’s Best Mystery of the Year, the Rocky, and the Will Rogers Award for Fiction. Spirit of Steamboat was selected by the Wyoming State Library as the inaugural One Book Wyoming selection. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, pop. 25.

ASMA KHAN is the chef and owner of the celebrated Darjeeling Express, in London. She moved from Calcutta to London in 1991 and earned a PhD in British constitutional law at King’s College London before beginning her remarkable food career in 2012 with a supper club in her home. In 2015 she opened a pop-up in a Soho pub, and in 2017 she started the Darjeeling Express. A year later her debut cookbook, Asma’s Indian Kitchen, was published to critical acclaim. Khan is the first British chef to feature in Netflix’s Emmy-nominated Chef’s Table. Her episode received a 2020 James Beard Award nomination, and Business Insider listed her at the top of its “100 Coolest People in Food and Drink.” Her second cookbook, Ammu, will be published in May 2022.

PHIL KLAY is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and the author of Redeployment, which won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction, and Missionaries, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2020 by The Wall Street Journal. His new book is a provocative collection of essays entitled Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in the Age of Endless, Invisible War. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction at Fairfield University, in Connecticut, and is a board member of Arts in the Armed Forces.

JON KRAKAUER is the author of eight books, including Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven, and Missoula. Raised in Corvallis, Oregon, he graduated from Hampshire College in 1976, after which he worked as a carpenter, then as a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska before embarking on a career as a writer. In 1999 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. According to the award citation, “Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer.” The FX limited series based on Under the Banner of Heaven will premiere on Hulu in the U.S. on April 28.

CECILE LIPWORTH is the founder of Ripple Catalyst Studio. She consults with statewide and international women-led organizations, harnessing her expertise in movement building, event producing, fundraising, marketing, and communications to support their work. Lipworth produces and hosts political, activist, and author conversations in person and through a weekly feminist radio show, Brave Space. She is the event producer for Collected Works Bookstore, producing and hosting more than 500 author events in person and online. Prior to founding Ripple, she worked for 15 years at the global movement V-Day, founded by playwright Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues) to manifest change at the intersection of art and activism. She grew up in South Africa and has lived in Santa Fe since 1997.

AMY GRACE LOYD is an editor, teacher, and author of the novel The Affairs of Others, a BEA Buzz Book and Indie Next selection. She began her editorial career at W.W. Norton & Company and The New Yorker. She was the fiction and literary editor at Playboy magazine and later at Esquire, an executive editor at Byliner, and is currently an acquiring editor for Scribd Originals. She has been a MacDowell and Yaddo fellow and lives between New York and New Hampshire.

VALERIA LUISELLI was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa, and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, and Lost Children Archive. Luiselli is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of the Dublin Literary Award, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, the Carnegie Medal, and an American Book Award and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a writer in residence at Bard College and lives in New York City.

DEBORAH MADISON is the author of fourteen cookbooks and the founding chef of Greens restaurant, in San Francisco. Her books have won numerous awards, including two Julia Child Cookbook of the Year awards, for The Savory Way and Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, as well as awards from the International Association of Culinary Professionals, including a Trailblazer award in 2019. She has received the Les Dames d’Escoffier award and five James Beard Awards. Her latest book is a memoir, An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables (Knopf, 2020).

EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL is the bestselling author of five novels, including The Glass Hotel, which was chosen by President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2020, and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, has been translated into thirty-three languages, and was made into a limited series on HBO Max. Her new novel, Sea of Tranquility, was published in April 2022. It is a story of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Originally from Canada, Mandel lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire as well as related works such as Fire & Blood, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and The World of Ice & Fire. The books acquired an even larger audience with the HBO adaptation Game of Thrones, which won numerous awards and became one of the most influential shows in television history. Some of his other novels and collections from outside the world of Westeros include Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle), and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. As a writer-producer, he has worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with his lovely wife, Parris, in Santa Fe.

KATHLEEN McCLEERY is an award-winning broadcast journalist who’s worked for PBS and NBC during her four-decade career. She reports and produces occasional stories for the PBS NewsHour on a wide variety of topics, including politics, the environment, education, science, healthcare, and the arts. Before moving to New Mexico, she was the program’s deputy executive producer. McCleery taught journalism at Princeton University in 2016 and 2018, focusing on media coverage of elections. She and her husband live in Corrales, where she is active in the Corrales Arts Center.

JILL MOMADAY is a mother, actor, writer, and filmmaker whose film Return to Rainy Mountain (PBS) documents her Kiowa heritage and life in the arts as the daughter of Pulitzer Prize–winning author N. Scott Momaday. Raised in an artistic and literary family, Momaday studied theater in Santa Fe and modeled in New York and Paris. Her film credits include Tony Hillerman’s Coyote Waits, directed by Jan Egglesen and produced by Robert Redford; The Desperate Trail, directed by Paul Pesche; and Silent Tongue, written and directed by Sam Shepard.

N. SCOTT MOMADAY is an internationally renowned poet, novelist, artist, teacher, and storyteller whose works celebrate and preserve Native American heritage. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, House Made of Dawn, and is the author of many other novels, poetry and essay collections, and children’s books, including The Way to Rainy Mountain, Angle of Geese, Earth Keeper, and his latest, Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including an Academy of American Poets Prize, the National Medal of Arts, the Ken Burns American Heritage Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation’s Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, and the 2021 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. A longtime professor of English and American literature, Momaday earned his PhD from Stanford University and retired as Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. He lives in New Mexico.

JAMES McGRATH MORRIS is the author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, which The Wall Street Journal named one of the five best books on American moguls and Booklist placed on its list of the ten best biographies of 2010. His book The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. He is one of the founders and past presidents of the Biographers International Organization and makes his home in Santa Fe. His latest book is Tony Hillerman: A Life.

SARIT PACKER and ITAMAR SRULOVICH opened Honey & Co in 2012, launching their restaurant Honey & Smoke and deli Honey & Spice close behind. Cooking and baking since she was five, Sarit Packer trained at Butlers Wharf and has worked at the Orrery under Chris Galvin, J Sheekey, OXO Tower, Ottolenghi, and Nopi. Itamar Srulovich was born and raised in Jerusalem. Cooking since the age of five and leaving a great mess in the kitchen ever since, Srulovich trained on the job in various places in Tel Aviv, where he met Packer. Their debut book, Honey & Co: Food from the Middle East (2015), was named Cookbook of the Year by The Sunday Times (UK), Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards’ Cookery Book of the Year, and Best First Book from the Guild of Food Writers (UK). They have written three more books, Honey & Co.: The Baking Book, Honey & Co. at Home, and their latest, Chasing Smoke: Cooking Over Fire Around the Levant, released in 2021. They host a podcast, Honey & Co: The Food Sessions, talking to influential guests from the food and drink industry, as well as writing a weekly recipe column for FT Weekend Magazine.

CARMELLA PADILLA is a journalist, author, and editor who explores intersections in art, culture, and history. She has published extensively, including in The Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Latina, and American Craft. Recent books include A Red Like No Other: How Cochineal Colored the World, The Work of Art: Folk Artists in the 21st Century, El Rancho de las Golondrinas: Living History in New Mexico’s La Ciénega Valley, and The Chile Chronicles: Tales of a New Mexico Harvest. A nineteenth-generation native Santa Fean, she is a recipient of the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

DOUGLAS PRESTON has published thirty-seven books, both fiction and nonfiction, thirty-one of which have been New York Times bestsellers. In addition to books, he writes occasional pieces for The New Yorker. He is the creator, with Lincoln Child, of the Pendergast series of novels. Preston’s most recent nonfiction book, The Lost City of the Monkey God, was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller and was named by the Times as a Notable Book of the Year, and his nonfiction book The Monster of Florence is currently in production as a television series. Preston previously worked as an editor for the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He currently serves as president of the Authors Guild, the nation’s oldest and largest association of authors and journalists.

KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE’s most recent book is the novel The Five Wounds, which Kirkus Reviews called “a brilliant meditation on love and redemption.” She is also the author of the story collection Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation. It was a New York Times Notable Book and was named a Best Book of 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the American Library Association. Quade is also the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the 2013 Narrative Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Narrative, Guernica, The Southern Review, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She teaches at Princeton University.

Writer, editor, and trend and color forecaster KEITH RECKER’s almost twenty-year client list includes global influencers Pantone, WGSN, Stylus, the Color Association of the United States, and more. He brings to this work thirty-five years of adventuresome, insightful, multicultural experience in media content creation, marketing and licensing, merchandising, and global artisan business development. He is currently editor in chief and co-owner of TABLE Magazine . Based in the culture of food and drink, TABLE explores travel, interior design, fashion and jewelry, and other facets of modern living, in both print and digital formats. He is also the author of three books on color: Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color (Chronicle, 2012), True Colors: World Masters of Natural Dyes and Pigments (second edition, Thrums Books, 2020), and the forthcoming Deep Color: The Shades That Shape Our Souls, a profound plunge into how color communicates both ancient meanings and modern stories (Schiffer Publications, August 2022). ”Recker’s writing has been published by the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Arts and Design, The Brooklyn Rail, the Santa Fe New Mexican, and more.

LEVI ROMERO was selected as the inaugural New Mexico Poet Laureate in 2020. His most recent book is the co-edited anthology Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland. His two collections of poetry are A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works and In the Gathering of Silence. Romero is co-author of Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland, and his poems and book publications have received numerous awards. He is the recipient of several NEA and NEH grant awards, including a Research and Creative Works Leadership Award. His poem-writing exercise “Where I’m From/De donde yo soy,” based on the original poem ”Where I’m From,” by George Ella Lyon, was published by Scholastic as part of a nationwide educational project and has been used extensively, nationally and internationally. He has taught writing workshops for schools, universities, incarcerated populations, libraries, community centers, writers’ organizations, and private mentorships and has worked with community libraries on various ethno-poetry and oral history documentation projects. His work has been featured in numerous anthologies and online publications. Romero is currently an associate professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at the University of New Mexico, where he directs the New Mexico Cultural Landscapes Certificate program and the Digital Cuentos project.

MARIN SARDY is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia (Pantheon, 2019). Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker online, Tin House, Guernica, The Paris Review Daily, The Missouri Review, and many other journals, as well as in two award-winning photography books. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Sardy has three times had her work listed as “notable” in the Best American series, and she has been awarded residency fellowships at Hawthornden Castle and Catwalk Institute. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and teaches nonfiction writing for Pace University and Authors Publish.

BOB SHACOCHIS is a novelist, essayist, journalist, and educator. His work has received the National Book Award for First Fiction, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is the author of two short story collections (Easy in the Islands, The Next New World), a novel (Swimming in the Volcano, a finalist for the National Book Award), and a collection of essays about food and love (Domesticity). His book The Immaculate Invasion, about the 1994 military intervention in Haiti, was a finalist for the New Yorker Literary Awards for best nonfiction book of the year and was named a Notable Book of 1999 by The New York Times. His most recent novel, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013), received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is at work on a third novel, The Magnificence of Everything That Burns, the final novel in his Soufriere Trilogy. A former Peace Corps volunteer in the eastern Caribbean, Shacochis currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Florida State University. He lives in Florida and New Mexico.

HENRY SHUKMAN, author of One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir, teaches mindfulness and awakening practices to a wide range of students from all traditions and walks of life. Henry is an appointed teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage, and is the guiding teacher of Mountain Cloud Zen Center. Previous to this, Henry had a career as an award-winning author and poet. His struggles and traumatic experiences as a youth, combined with a spontaneous awakening experience at nineteen, paved the way for Henry to develop a well-rounded approach to spirituality and meditation—one that includes love for self and the world as its foundation.

HAMPTON SIDES is the author of the bestselling narrative histories Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound on His Trail, and In the Kingdom of Ice. His most recent book, On Desperate Ground, was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and is under development for the screen; Hellhound on His Trail, about the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. and the hunt for his killer, was the basis of the acclaimed PBS documentary “Roads to Memphis.” His journalistic works have been frequently anthologized and he is a two-time National Magazine Award finalist. He is now at work on a book about the fateful last voyage of Captain James Cook.

BRYANT TERRY is a James Beard Award–winning chef and educator and the author of Afro-Vegan and Vegetable Kingdom. He is renowned for his activism and efforts to create a healthy, equitable, and sustainable food system. He is currently the chef-in-residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora, in San Francisco, where he creates programming that celebrates the intersection of food, farming, health, activism, art, culture, and the African Diaspora. His work has been featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post and on CBS This Morning and NPR’s All Things Considered. San Francisco magazine included Terry among the 11 Smartest People in the Bay Area Food Scene, and Fast Company named him one of 9 People Who Are Changing the Future of Food. His latest, Black Food, is a beautiful, rich, and groundbreaking book exploring Black foodways within America and around the world.

PATRICIA TRUJILLO is a Chicana feminist scholar from Española, New Mexico. She teaches and writes about women’s issues, representations of acequia- and land-based cultures, and food/farm justice in New Mexico literature. Trujillo is currently the deputy cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Higher Education Department. For more than a decade she was a faculty member in the Department of Languages and Letters at Northern New Mexico College and the founding director of the college’s Office of Equity and Diversity. Though she is on a hiatus from teaching, Trujillo believes in the power of story to shape and heal communities. She has a PhD in U.S. Latina/Latino Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio, was the creative writing editor for the journal Chicana/Latina Studies , and has numerous publications in anthologies and journals. She sits on the boards of Tewa Women United, the LANL Foundation, Rural Opportunities for College Access, and NewMexicoWomen.org.

DARRYL LORENZO WELLINGTON is the 2021–2023 Poet Laureate of Santa Fe. His poetry chapbook Life’s Prisoners received the 2017 Turtle Island Quarterly Chapbook Award. His first full-length poetry collection is Psalms at the Present Time (Flowstone Press, 2021). Wellington has also worked for more than twenty years as a journalist and essayist, publishing magazine feature articles, political commentary, poetry, and book reviews in publications such as Dissent, The Nation, The Progressive, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Common Review, Boston Review, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, and n+1. He also writes a syndicated editorial column for the Progressive Media Project. Since 2016, he has been a writing/communications fellow with the Center for Community Change, a Washington, D.C.–based organization that supports low-income people of color.

COLSON WHITEHEAD is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and winner of the 2016 National Book Award and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) and The Nickel Boys, which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (making him only the fourth writer to win two Pulitzers in the Fiction category), the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction, and the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. The Underground Railroad has also been adapted into an Amazon Original series directed by Barry Jenkins. Whitehead’s acclaimed new novel, the bestselling Harlem Shuffle, was published in 2021. His other books include The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and a collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. Among his other awards are a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Dos Passos Prize, a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and the 2020 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. He lives in New York City.

DON WINSLOW is the celebrated author of twenty-two award-winning international bestsellers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Force and The Border, the No. 1 international bestseller The Cartel, The Power of the Dog, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine. Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone. His Cartel Trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border) sold to FX to air as a major television series, and The Force is soon to be a motion picture from 20th Century Studios starring Matt Damon and directed by James Mangold. Winslow is the author of three New York Times Critics’ Picks for best book of the year. A former investigator, antiterrorist trainer, and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island.

LAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of eight books of nonfiction, including In the New World, Remembering Satan, The Looming Tower, Going Clear, Thirteen Days in September, The Terror Years, and God Save Texas, and two novels, God’s Favorite and The End of October. His books have received many prizes and honors, including a Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower. He is also a playwright and screenwriter. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas. His latest book, The Plague Year, was published in 2021.