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Joy Harjo, the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate and member of the Muscogee Nation, is the author of 10 books of poetry, several plays, children’s books, two memoirs and seven music albums. Her honors include Yale University’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle’s Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship…

Meg Medina, 2023-2024 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, was the eighth writer to hold this position. During her term, Medina will engage readers across the country through her new platform Cuéntame!: Let’s talk books.

George Saunders is the bestselling author of 12 books, including “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain;” “Lincoln in the Bardo,” which won the Man Booker Prize; “Congratulations, by the Way;” “Tenth of December,” a National Book Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Folio Award; “The Braindead Megaphone;” and the story collections “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” “Pastoralia,” and “In Persuasion Nation.”

Jesmyn Ward is the acclaimed author of the novels “Where the Line Bleeds,” “Salvage the Bones,” winner of the 2011 National Book Award, and “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” winner of the 2017 National Book Award. Her nonfiction work includes the memoir “Men We Reaped,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2020 work “Navigate Your Stars.”