FICTION
Cuban-American novelist, translator, shortlisted for PEN/Faulkner Award; Days of Awe (Ballantine), Tower of the Antilles (Akashic), Boomerang / Bumerán (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)
Winner of the São Paulo Literature Prize, Granta Best Young Brazilian Novelist; The House in Smyrna (Scribe), Vista Chinesa (Scribe)
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
Classic Brazilian novelist; Max and the Cats (Penguin), The Centaur in the Garden (Ballantine)
Brazilian rockstar, author of international noir mysteries; Bellini and the Sphinx (Akashic)
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)
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)
Author of acclaimed Brazilian novel City of God (Grove Atlantic), the basis for the major motion picture
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, forthcoming)
Editor in Chief of Sierra magazine, environmental journalist contributing to The New York Times, The Nation, The Atlantic; Satellites in the High Country (Island Press)
Scholar of Latin American poetry and literature, finalist for PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography; Neruda: The Biography of a Poet (Ecco)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
Master sommelier and Meilleur Ouvriers de France (MOF), Racine’s wine bar in Tribeca NYC; Mille Vignes (Hachette Pratique, forthcoming as Thousand Vines in English from Mitchell Beazley)
Artist, founder of Del Maguey mezcals; Finding Mezcal (Ten Speed Press)
Food & culture freelance writer, LA Times, Serious Eats, Bburi Kitchen blog co-founder
Chef, co-owner of Union Hmong Kitchen, Minneapolis
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)
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)
Editor of L.A. Taco, Teenage Glutster blogger; co-author of Oaxaca (Abrams), co-author of Asada (Abrams)
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
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
Oakland-based purveyor of quality Japanese products, specializing in sake and spirits, founded by Kayoko Akabori and Yoko Kumano
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)
Chef, Graffiti NYC, and runner-up on The Next Food Network Star; Mantra (Ecco)
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)
Founder and CEO of Brooklyn-based artisanal ice cream company Malai, specializing in South Asian flavors
Chef, CIA Grad, Seoul-based educator in traditional Korean foodways, Bburi Kitchen blog co-founder
Chef, co-owner of Californios, a Michelin-starred haute Mexican restaurant in San Francisco