More than 130 authors and illustrators [4] will appear at the 2018 Winter Institute [5] over the course of four days of keynotes, education sessions, featured talks, author receptions, and special events.

Authors appearing at Winter Institute 13, from January 22–25 in Memphis, include:

• Heather Abel, The Optimistic Decade (Workman/Algonquin Books)
• Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X (HarperTeen)
• Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
• Samira Ahmed, Love, Hate and Other Filters (Soho Teen)
• Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood (Macmillan/Flatiron Books)
• Ethan M. Aldridge, Estranged (HarperCollins)
• Masih Alinejad, The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran (Hachette Book Group/Little, Brown and Company)
• Luke Allnutt, We Own the Sky (Harlequin/Park Row Books)
• Carol Anderson, PhD., One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Bloomsbury)
• Jesse Andrews, Munmun (Abrams/Amulet)
• Nick Arvin, Mad Boy (Europa Editions)
• John August, Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group/Roaring Brook Press)
• Eric Barnes, City Where We Once Lived (Arcade/Skyhorse, dist. Two Rivers)
• Mac Barnett, Hi, Jack! (Penguin Random House/Viking Children’s Books)
• Gillian Best, The Last Wave (House of Anansi Press)
• Shira Boss, Up in the Leaves (Sterling Children’s Books)
• David Bowles, Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico (Cinco Puntos Press)
• Lauren Bradshaw, Magnolia’s Magnificent Map (Cameron + Company/Cameron Kids)
• Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man (Graywolf Press/A Public Space Book)
• Jessica Brody, The Chaos of Standing Still (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing/Simon Pulse)
• Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Melville House)
• Kheryn Callender, Hurricane Child (Scholastic Press)
• Tami Charles, Like Vanessa (Charlesbridge)
• YZ Chin, Though I Get Home (Feminist Press)
• Mary H. K. Choi, Emergency Contact (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time (Disney Publishing Worldwide/Rick Riordan Presents)
• Nancy Churnin, Irving Berlin, the Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing (Creston Books)
• Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing/Margaret K. McElderry)
• Dhonielle Clayton, The Belles (Disney Publishing Worldwide/Freeform Books)
• M. Amos Clifford, Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature (Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari Press)
• Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle (HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books)
• Sayantani DasGupta, Serpent’s Secret (Scholastic Press)
• Dawn Davies, Mothers of Sparta (Flatiron Books)
• Emmanuelle de Villepin, The Devil’s Reward (Other Press)
• Junot Díaz, Islandborn (Penguin Young Readers)
• Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater (Grove Atlantic/Grove Press)
• Ashley English, Southern From Scratch (Roost Books)
• Aminatta Forna, Happiness (Grove Atlantic/Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Charles Frazier, Varina (HarperCollins Publishers/Ecco)
• Adina Rishe Gewirtz, Blue Window (Candlewick Press)
• Mario Giordano, Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (Penguin/Dutton)
• Adele Griffin, Tell Me No Lies (Workman/Algonquin Young Readers)
• Terry Griggs, The Iconoclast’s Journal (Biblioasis)
• Viv Groskop, The Anna Karenina Fix (Abrams Books)
• Minrose Gwin, Promise (HarperCollins Publishers/William Morrow)
• Morten Hansen, Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More (Simon & Schuster)
• Charlie Harmon, On the Road and Off the Record With Leonard Bernstein: My Years With the Exasperating Genius (Charlesbridge/Imagine Publishing)
• Steven Hartov, The Soul of a Thief (Harlequin/Hanover Square Press)
• Jennifer Haupt, In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills (Central Avenue Publishing, dist. IPG)
• Mary Winn Heider, The Mortification of Fovea Munson (Disney Publishing Worldwide/Disney Hyperion)
• Eddie Hernandez, Turnip Greens & Tortillas: A Mexican Chef Spices Up the Southern Kitchen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Rux Martin)
• Sheila Heti, Motherhood (Henry Holt)
• Will Hillenbrand, First Star: A Bear and Mole Story (Holiday House)
• Paddy Hirsch, The Devil’s Half Mile (Macmillan/Forge Books)
• Silas House, Southernmost (Workman/Algonquin Books)
• Paul Howarth, Only Killers and Thieves (HarperCollins)
• K.J. Howe, Skyjack (Quercus)
• Maria Hummel, Still Lives (Counterpoint Press)
• Blair Hurley, The Devoted (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Michael Imperioli, The Perfume Burned His Eyes (Akashic Books, dist. Consortium)
• Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday’s Not Coming (HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books)
• Julia Kaye, Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition (Andrews McMeel)
• Kathryn Kemp-Griffin, Paris Undressed: The Secrets of French Lingerie (House of Anansi Press/Ambrosia)
• Rosalie Knecht, Who Is Vera Kelly? (Tin House Books)
• Kelli Maria Korducki, Hard to Do: The Surprising Feminist History of Breaking Up (Coach House Books)
• Ethan J. Kytle, Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy (The New Press)
• Alice LaPlante, Half Moon Bay (Simon & Schuster/Scribner)
• Claire Legrand, Furyborn (Sourcebooks Fire)
• Marjorie Liu, Monstress V.3 (Image Comics)
• Robin Lloyd, Harbor of Spies: A Novel of Historic Havana (Globe Pequot/Lyons Press)
• Regina Louise, Someone Has Led This Child to Believe (Agate/Bolden)
• Carolyn Mackler, The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I (Bloomsbury)
• Tom Malmquist, In Every Moment We Are Still Alive (Melville House)
• Christine Mangan, Tangerine (HarperCollins Publishers/Ecco)
• Alberto Manguel, Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (Yale University Press)
• Iris Martin Cohen, The Little Clan (Harlequin/Park Row Books)
• Juana Martinez-Neal, Alma and How She Got Her Name (Candlewick Press)
• Stephen McCauley, My Ex-Life (Flatiron Books)
• Jesse Mecham, You Need a Budget (Harper Business)
• Dunya Mikhail, The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq (New Directions)
• Jenny Milchman, Wicked River (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Debbie Clarke Moderow, Fast Into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail (Red Hen Press/Boreal Books)
• Kim Moritsugu, The Showrunner (Dundurn)
• Donald Morrill, Beaut (Blair)
• Bethany C. Morrow, MEM (Unnamed Press)
• Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here (Coffee House Press)
• Liz Nugent, Lying in Wait (Scout Press/Simon & Schuster)
• Chris Offutt, Country Dark (Grove Atlantic/Grove Press)
• Masatsugu Ono, Lion Cross Point (Two Lines Press)
• Chibundu Onuzo, Welcome to Lagos (Catapult)
• Tommy Orange, There There (Knopf)
• Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After (Hachette Book Group/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Pamela Paul, My Life With Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues (Macmillan/Henry Holt)
• Allison Pearson, How Hard Can It Be? (St. Martin’s Press)
• Farrah Penn, Twelve Steps to Normal (Hachette Book Group/Jimmy Patterson)
• Marisha Pessl, Neverworld Wake (Random House Children’s Books/Delacorte Press)
• Dan Pink, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Penguin Random House/Riverhead Books)
• Andrea Davis Pinkney, Martin Rising: Requiem for a King (Scholastic Press)
• Brian Pinkney, Martin Rising: Requiem for a King (Scholastic Press)
• Greg Pizzoli, Hi, Jack! (Penguin Random House/Viking Children’s Books)
• Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind (Penguin Press)
• Franchesca Ramsey, Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist (Hachette Book Group/Grand Central Publishing)
• Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys (Hachette Book Group/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Kiley Roache, Frat Girl (Harlequin TEEN)
• Blain Roberts, Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy (The New Press)
• Keith Rosson, Smoke City (Midpoint Trade Books/Meerkat Press)
• Linda Ruffenach, How to Be a Bourbon Badass (Red Lightning Books)
• Elizabeth Rush, Rising: The Unsettling of the American Shore (Milkweed Editions)
• Dan Salmieri, Bear and Wolf (Enchanted Lion Books, dist. Consortium)
• Arshia Sattar, Ramayana: An Illustrated Retelling (Restless Books/Yonder)
• Brian Selznick, Baby Monkey, Private Eye (Scholastic Press)
• Suzannah Showler, Most Dramatic Ever: The Bachelor (ECW Press)
• Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success (Random House)
• Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Yael Shy, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond  (Parallax Press)
• Rachel Lynn Solomon, You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing/Simon Pulse)
• Charles Soule, The Oracle Year (Harper Perennial)
• Stephen Robert Stein, The Oath (Rare Bird Books/A Vireo Book)
• Nadine Strossen, HATE: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship (Oxford University Press)
• Angelo Surmelis, The Dangerous Art of Blending In (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray)
• Rupert Thomson, Never Anyone but You (Other Press)
• Lynne Tillman, Men and Apparitions (Soft Skull Press)
• Amy Webb, The Signals Are Talking: Why Today’s Fringe Is Tomorrow’s Mainstream (Perseus/PublicAffairs)
• Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Luck (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing/Simon Pulse)
• Brendan Wenzel, Hello Hello (Chronicle Books)
• Tina Whittle, Necessary Ends (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Dar Williams, What I Found in a Thousand Towns (Hachette Book Group/Basic Books)
• Beatriz Williams, The Summer Wives (HarperCollins/William Morrow)
• Spencer Wise, The Emperor of Shoes (Harlequin/Hanover Square Press)
• Michael Zadoorian, Beautiful Music (Akashic Book)
• Najwa Zebien, Mind Platter (Andrews McMeel Publishing)

Learn more about the authors appearing at Winter Institute [4] and check out the full lineup of educational programs, keynote speeches, and meet-and-greet events [6] on BookWeb.

Winter Institute 13 is made possible by the generous support of lead sponsor Ingram Content Group and from publishers large and small [7].