Mark Kriegel is an author, journalist, and ESPN commentator. Kriegel is the author of critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers, Namath: A Biography, about Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath and Pistol: the Life of Pete Maravich and The Good Son: The Life of Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini.

DBC Pierre Pierre was awarded the 2003 Booker Prize for fiction for Vernon God Little, his first novel, becoming the third Australian-born author to be so honored. After winning the Whitbread First Novel Award the same year, he became the first writer to receive a Booker and a Whitbread for the same book.

The book also won the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for comic literature at the Hay Festival in 2003, and earned the author a James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin.

Ben Anderson is an award-winning journalist, author, and filmmaker who has reported from around the world: Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, Brazil, Congo, Cambodia among others, covering conflicts, environmental catastrophes and pariah regimes. His films include Holidays in the Axis of Evil, This is What What Winning Looks Like and Battle for Marjah, which later became a book, No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan. His war dispatches have been published in The Guardian Magazine and GQ UK. Ben is currently a senior producer and correspondent for VICE on HBO.

Rosie Perez is an actress, activist, author, dancer, and choreographer. Her film breakthrough was in 1989 with Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.  She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for her performance in Fearless. She was also nominated for three Emmy Awards for her work as a choreographer on In Living Color. In 2014, Perez published an autobiography: Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling.