Anne Enright is the internationally acclaimed, Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering and Ireland’s inaugural Laureate for Fiction. Lauded for her “razor-sharp” prose (New York Times Book Review), Enright is a master of the contemporary novel, unparalleled in her “beautiful, subtle examination of intimacy” (Wall Street Journal) in the modern world. Her most recent book is The Green Road.

AM Homes is the author of the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Touching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack; the short-story collections Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects; the bestselling memoir The Mistress’s Daughter; a travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and The Castle on the Hill; and the artist’s book Appendix A.

Yusef Komunyakaa is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor at New York University. He received wide recognition following the 1984 publication of Copacetic, a jazz-influenced collection of poems drawing on colloquial speech.  In 1994, he claimed the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems.