LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Carroll is Editor of Special Projects at WNYC. She is a critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times, and a former Opinion writer for The Guardian. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, Harper's Bazaar and Esquire, among others. She is the author of five narrative... Read More →

Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl (WRBG), a Brooklyn-based book club and digital platform that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. In 2017, she organized the first-ever Well-Read Black Girl Festival. She serves on the board of New York City's... Read More →

Jerkins graduated from Princeton University with an AB in comparative literature and she has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has written for The New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, ELLE, The New Republic, and BuzzFeed, among others. She's also an Associate... Read More →

Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker & internet yeller. She was named of the most influential people in Seattle, by Seattle Magazine. She's the Editor-At-Large at The Establishment - a media platform run and funded by women. Her newest book is "So You Want to Talk About Race... Read More →