Episode 16 was recorded at the 2021 Edelweiss Bookfest on June 8. Over 100 attendees watched the interview via Zoom. Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and story collections, often about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. She has won awards from PEN Center USA and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Ang...

Margo Rabb is the author of the novels Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize, Kissing in America, and Cures for Heartbreak; her novels have been named to multiple best-of-the-year lists, including the Amelia Bloomer Project’s List of Recommended Feminist Literature. Margo’s essays and short stories have been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, and elsewhere, and have been broadcast on NPR. She grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in the Philadelphia area with her family. Visit...

TANUJA DESAI HIDIER (thisistanuja.com) is an author/singer-songwriter and innovator of the ‘booktrack’, and was selected this year to be a Good Morning America Inspiration List headliner for ABC’s network-wide project for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021. Her pioneering debut BORN CONFUSED, considered to be the first South Asian American YA novel, was named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and was hailed by Entertainment Weekly, Rolli...

Paula Yoo is an author, screenwriter, and musician. Her latest YA non-fiction book, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement (Norton Young Readers/W.W. Norton & Co. Publication Date: April 20, 2021), is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Her other books include the YA novel Good Enough (HarperCollins 2008), an Asian/Pacific American Award for Youth Literature honor book, and the IRA Notable picture...

Wesley Stace has published four novels, including the international bestseller Misfortune, and recently co-wrote Mark Morris’ memoir Out Loud. Since 1988, he has released many albums under the name John Wesley Harding - his most recent, 2018’s Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding, with the Jayhawks as his backing band - and recorded duets with, among others, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed and Rosanne Cash. He also created Cabinet of Wonders, a monthly show that plays at New York City’s City Winery...

Jill Santopolo is the internationally bestselling author of Everything After, More Than Words, and The Light We Lost, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Her books have been translated into more than 36 languages and have been named the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Apple, and Indiebound bestseller lists. She has also written three children's book series and edits for Penguin Young Readers.If you would like to purchase any of Jill's books, you can go to her website...

TY McCORMICK is an editor at Foreign Affairs, the magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. A former foreign correspondent in Nairobi and before that in Cairo, he has reported from more than a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Africa editor of Foreign Policy magazine, where he led a team of reporters that won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for a series on African migration. He has also written for The New York Times,...

Walter M. Mayes is the librarian at The Girls' Middle School in Palo Alto, CA, where he has spent the last two decades sharing his lifelong passion for books. A noted expert on literature for children and teens, Walter has presented all over the country, as well as serving as a judge for numerous literary awards and prizes, among them the LA Times Book Prize, the Odyssey Award, and the Michael L. Printz Award. He is the author of WALTER THE GIANT STORYTELLER'S GIANT BOOK OF GIANT STORIES and ...

Libby Copeland is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Washington Post, New York magazine, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She specializes in the intersection of science and culture. Copeland was a reporter and editor at the Post for eleven years has been a media fellow and guest lecturer and has made numerous appearances on television and radio.The Lost Family explores the rapidly evolving phenomenon of home DNA testing, its implications for how ...

Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er) is Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and author of many books. His equity, education, and cultural work has put him on a path of service around the region, the nation, and the world. https://antontreuer.comYoung Reader edition of Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask was released on April 6, 2021. Click this link for more info and how to purchase.Follow on Instagram - @fiveauthorquestions Follow on Twitter - @Au...