LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Seshadri's articles have been published in the Essential Education section of the Los Angeles Times and the LA Times High School Insider, where she is a Student Advisory Board member. She spent last summer at the School of the New York Times. Recently, she won 1st place in editorial... Read More →

Sussman is a writer, a reader and a pumpkin pie eater. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and in a previous life managed animators and organized spreadsheets at some of the best animation studios in the world, including Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks and Sony Imageworks... Read More →

De la Cruz is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly internationally bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels. Her "Blue Bloods" series has sold over three million copies, and the "Witches of East End" series became... Read More →

Hiranandani earned her MFA in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of "The Whole Story of Half a Girl," which was named a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and a South Asian Book Award Finalist. A former book editor, she now teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence... Read More →

Pan is the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Astonishing Color After," named by the Wall Street Journal as one of thetop twelve books of the season. She received her MFA in fiction from NYU, where she was a GoldwaterFellow. She is a co-creator of "Foreshadow: A Serial YA... Read More →