Celia Keenan-Bolger has appeared on Broadway in To Kill A Mockingbird, for which she received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards, The Glass Menagerie, The Cherry Orchard, Peter and the Starcatcher, Les Misérables, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Her off-Broadway credits include A Parallelogram and Bachelorette at Second Stage, The Oldest Boy at Lincoln Center Theater, Merrily We Roll Along with City Center Encores, and A Small Fire at Playwrights Horizons. Her television and film credits include The Gilded Age, Bull, Louie, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, Good Behavior, Law & Order SVU, Elementary, Heartland, Blue Bloods, NCIS New Orleans, Diane, The Visit, and Breakable You. Keenan-Bolger was awarded the NYCLU Michael Friedman Freedom Award for her commitment to social justice in both her life and career. She graduated from the University of Michigan and is currently training to be an end-of-life doula.

Emma Straub is the New York Times bestselling author of six books for adults: the novels This Time Tomorrow, All Adults Here, The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married. She is also the author of three picture books, the first of which, Very Good Hats, was published in January 2023. Her work has been published in more than 20 languages. Emma and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore with two locations in Brooklyn, New York.

Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, which was adapted to film in 2018, starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and has also published books for young readers, most recently a picture book, Millions of Maxes. Wolitzer is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel.