Authors

Tochi Onyebuchi is the Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist and author of Goliath, Riot Baby, the Beasts Made of Night series, and the War Girls series. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and elsewhere. His nonfiction includes the book (S)kinfolk and has […]

Shaka Senghor is an inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs and Letters to the Sons of Society. A former MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow and TED speaker whose talk has reached more than 1.8 million viewers, he inspires global audiences with his journey from incarceration to influence. Recognized

Chanda A. Bell was once a beloved middle school English teacher. Now she is the visionary founder and co-CEO of the Lumistella Company, home to the international phenomenon The Elf on the Shelf. As the author of The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition and other books from the Santaverse brand, she is often

Adam Godfrey is an IT and cybersecurity risk management professional who has worked for the Department of Defense for over twenty years. He holds a BA in marketing and a MS in cybersecurity. He and his family live in Chesapeake, VA. This is his debut novel. Body of Water Sourcebooks Landmark, September 2025 Don’t let

Mia Tsai is a Taiwanese American author of speculative fiction, including Bitter Medicine and The Memory Hunters. An editor at GigaNotoSaurus, a 2024 Hugo Finalist for Best Semi-pro Zine, she is also a musician, teacher, and erstwhile photographer who earned her bachelors of humanities and arts in music and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and

Alice Gerrard is a Grammy-nominated old-time and bluegrass musician whose career has spanned nearly six decades. Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music The University of North Carolina Press, December 2025 Alice Gerrard, an award-winning and storied folk and bluegrass musician for over 50 years, is one of the notable few women in a

Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels The Wrong End of the Telescope; Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I, the Divine; Koolaids; the story collection, The Perv; and one work of nonfiction, Comforting Myths. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Born in Havana, Mirta Ojito is a journalist, professor, and author who has worked at the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and the New York Times. The recipient of an Emmy for the documentary Harvest of Misery as well as a shared Pulitzer for national reporting in 2001 for a series of articles about race

There are over 90 authors scheduled to appear at the NVNR 2025 conference! An author gallery is available at the NVNR website Booksellers can see a list of published profiles under "News and Announcements." Tiffany D. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Allegedly, Monday’s Not Coming, Let Me Hear a Rhyme, Grown,

There are over 90 authors scheduled to appear at the NVNR 2025 conference! An author gallery is available at the NVNR website Booksellers can see a list of published profiles under "News and Announcements." Charles Ghigna lives in a tree house in the middle of Alabama. He is the author of over 100 books and