Alvin Hall is a financial strategist, radio host, filmmaker, and author of Driving the Green Book, which follows his travels through The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of the acclaimed hybrid memoirs The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, and Both and Neither: A Memoir and a History of Gender (or, a Haunting).

Luis Alberto Urrea is the bestselling author of 19 books. A Guggenheim fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist, his books have been selected by more than 100 different cities and colleges for community reads programs.

Esmé Weijun Wang is a New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author of The Collected Schizophrenias and The Border of Paradise.