Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright, and puppeteer. Atwood’s latest short story collection, Old Babes in the Wood, and her poetry collection Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023 were published in 2023.

Veronica Chambers is the editor of Projects and Collaborations at The New York Times. She is the author of several books, including Mama’s Girl, a critically acclaimed memoir, and Ida, in Love and in Trouble, her first historical novel, which will be published in September 2024. Chambers has been the recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the Hodder fellowship for emerging novelists at Princeton University, a National Endowment for the Arts fiction award. and a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford.

Min Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Pachinko was voted a New York Times 100 Best Books of the Century by both The New York Times Book Review and Times Readers. In 2022, Lee received the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity from South Korea. She is the recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. In 2023, Lee served as the Editor of Best American Short Stories. Her personal essays and literary criticism have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, Travel & Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, Vogue, and The Times of London. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College. Lee is at work on her third novel, American Hagwon, and a nonfiction work, Name Recognition.