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 in 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. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Atwood’s latest short story collection, Old Babes in the Wood, was released yesterday.

Becky Ann Baker has appeared on television and film in Girls, for which she received an Emmy nomination, Freaks and Geeks, Kings, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Big Little Lies, Brockmire, Younger, Hunters, Little Voice, New Amsterdam, Billions, A Simple Plan, Lorenzo’s Oil, Sabrina, Two Weeks Notice, Nights in Rodanthe, Starbright, The Half of It, and Holler. She has performed on Broadway in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A Streetcar Named Desire, Titanic, Assassins, All My Sons, and Good People. Off-Broadway, she has appeared in Suddenly Last Summer at the Roundabout Theatre Company; Comedy of Errors, Othello, and Two Gentlemen of Verona at the New York Shakespeare Festival; Durang, Durang at the Manhattan Theatre Club; and Barbecue at the Public Theater, and virtually in TheHomeboundProject. Baker is currently appearing on Peacock in The Resort. Forthcoming projects include Girls on the Bus for HBO Max and Ted Lasso on Apple TV+.

Ellen Burstyn’s illustrious over sixty-year acting career encompasses film, stage, and television. She is the winner of the Academy Award for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore; the Tony Award for Same Time, Next Year; and two Emmy Awards for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Political Animals, among her many nominations. Her film and television credits include The Last Picture Show, The Exorcist, Resurrection, Requiem for a Dream, Big Love, Flowers in the Attic, Interstellar, The Age of Adaline, House of Cards, Nostalgia, The Tale, American Woman, Lucy in the Sky, Pieces of a Woman, Queen Bees, Three Months, and The First Lady. Burstyn’s best-selling memoir, Lessons in Becoming Myself, was published in 2006.

Wyatt Cenac is an Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, and writer known for the HBO late-night comedy docuseries Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas. Additional credits include aka Wyatt Cenac, People of the Earth, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He's made four comedy albums: Wyatt Cenac: Comedy Person, the Grammy-nominated Brooklyn, Furry Dumb Fighter, and One Angry Night in November, and hosted the televised stand-up variety series Night Train with Wyatt Cenac. He started his career in animation as a writer for Mike Judge's King of the Hill and has served as a consultant for South Park. Every now and again he pops up in a film, most notably Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy.

A.M. Homes is the author of the novels Jack, In a Country of Mothers, The End of Alice, Music for Torching, This Book Will Save Your Life, and May We Be Forgiven, winner of the Orange/Women’s Prize for Fiction. Homes is also the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter and the short-story collections The Safety of Objects, Things You Should Know, and Days of Awe. Her latest novel, The Unfolding, was published in September 2022.

Maggie Siff is best known for her roles as Wendy Rhoades in Showtime's Billions, Tara Knowles on the FX series Sons of Anarchy, and Rachel Menken on Mad Men. Her film credits include A Woman, A Part; The 5th Wave; Concussion; Leaves of Grass; Push; One Percent More Humid; and The Short History of the Long Road. Siff also voiced the character of Polly Platt on the podcast series You Must Remember This. She has appeared on stage with Theatre for a New Audience in The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing, at The Geffen Playhouse in The Escort, at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in Dollhouse, for which she received a Jefferson Award nomination, and at the Signature Theatre in Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class. Siff earned an MFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.