Kass Morgan is the NY TIMES bestselling author of The 100 series, which was the inspiration for the CW show of the same name. She has a master’s degree in 19^thcentury literature, and has strong opinions about George Eliot, Henry James, and The Bachelorette. You can follow her twitter handle, @kassmorganbooks, for thoughts on these subjects and more. She lives in Brooklyn, and works in children’s publishing, editing books with more magic and fewer shirtless kissing scenes than her own novels.

Danielle Paige is the NYT bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die, its sequel The Wicked Will Rise, and the upcoming Stealing Snow series (Bloomsbury, 2016). In addition to writing young adult books, she works in the television industry, where she’s received a Writers Guild of America Award and was nominated for several Daytime Emmys.

Joy Peskin is an editorial director of Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers. Joy manages a department of six editors and edits a range of books for children and teenagers. Books she has edited for Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers include Brandon Stanton’s Little Humans, a NYT Bestseller; Rachel Bright’s Love Monster, a #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller; and Ava Dellaira’s Love Letters to the Dead, which will be published in twenty-two languages around the world, and has been optioned for film produced by the team behind The Fault in Our Stars.

Seth Rudestky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio’s On Broadway as well as the host of Seth Speaks on Sirius/XM Stars. Recently, he co-wrote and starred in Disaster! (called a “triumph” by The New York Times.)He currently writes a weekly column on Playbill.com and tours the country doing master classes and performing his one-man show Deconstructing Broadway. Seth is the author of two Young Adult novels, My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan and The Rise and Fall of a Theater Geek.

Susan Shapiro is an award-winning New School writing professor who teaches the “instant gratification takes too long” method.  She writes for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post and is the NY Times bestselling author of 10 books, including the humorous  memoirs Five Men Who Broke My Heart and Lighting Up, the coauthored The Bosnia List and the recent novel What’s Never Said.

Emmy Laybourne is a novelist, screenwriter and former character actress. Her Monument 14 trilogy has earned critical praise (“Frighteningly real… riveting” – New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice) and has been nominated by readers to the YALSA Teens Top Ten in 2013 and 2014. Before her life as an author, Emmy performed original comedy on Comedy Central, MTV and VH1; and acted in the movies Superstar,The In-Laws and Nancy Drew, among others.