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Journalist Herb Frazier is the author and coauthor of several books, including Behind God’s Back: Gullah Memories, We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel, and the forthcoming Crossing the Sea on a Sacred Song. In Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery, Frazier and his coauthor, Joseph McGill Jr., … Continued

Melissa Ginsburg is the author of the poetry collections Doll Apollo (winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award) and Dear Weather Ghost, the novels The House Uptown and Sunset City, and three poetry chapbooks, Arbor, Double Blind, and Apollo. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Image, Guernica, the Kenyon … Continued

Karina Yan Glaser is the New York Times bestselling writer and illustrator of The Vanderbeekers series—a New York Times Notable Children’s Book and the winner of the NYC Book Award. Glaser is also the author of the standalone novel A Duet for Home, which was a Publisher’s Weeklybestseller. She lives in Harlem with her husband, … Continued

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the author of several books, including We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, Democracy in Black, and the New York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, winner of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Book Prize. He frequently appears in the media as an MSNBC contributor on programs like Morning … Continued

Natalie Green is the senior manager of public programs at the National Book Foundation. Previously, Natalie was the manager of Los Angeles Programs at PEN America. She holds a BA in English and creative writing from UCLA, is a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends committee member, and organizes with North Brooklyn Mutual Aid.