Author Bios

Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is a Canadian researcher, educator, and speaker specializing in resilience, wellness, and human performance. She holds a doctorate in educational psychology and has spent her career studying the conditions that allow people to navigate adversity effectively. She has worked with educational institutions, corporate organizations, and healthcare systems, applying resilience research to practical settings….

Marlene Daut is a professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University and a leading scholar of Haitian literature and history. Her research focuses on the intellectual and literary culture of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath, with particular attention to recovering texts by Haitian writers that have been overlooked in Western scholarship….

Mae Bunseng Taing is a Cambodian-Canadian writer and survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide. Born in Cambodia, he was nine years old when the Khmer Rouge seized power in April 1975. He survived four years of forced labor, displacement, and the systematic destruction of Cambodian society before escaping through refugee camps in Thailand and eventually…

Jennifer Moss is a workplace well-being researcher, journalist, and speaker whose work examines the organizational and systemic drivers of employee burnout. She is a co-founder of Plasticity Labs and a columnist who has written for Harvard Business Review, The Globe and Mail, and other major publications on the science of happiness and the crisis of…

Jill Christman is an American essayist and memoirist whose work sits at the intersection of personal narrative, literary criticism, and formal experimentation. She is the author of Darkroom: A Family Exposure, which won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction, and If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays, published by the University of…

AJ Harper is a developmental editor, writing teacher, and author who has spent more than two decades helping nonfiction writers produce books that make a genuine difference for readers. She is the founder of the Top Three Book Workshop and has worked as a ghostwriter, collaborator, and editor on hundreds of nonfiction titles, including several…

Ramona Emerson is a Navajo filmmaker and writer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her debut novel Shutter introduced protagonist Rita Todacheene, a forensic photographer haunted by the ghosts of murder victims, and earned recognition from the Edgar Awards and the Hillerman Prize. Emerson brings to her fiction a documentary filmmaker’s eye for detail and a…

Paul Lynch is an Irish novelist whose work is distinguished by its lyrical intensity and moral urgency. His novels include Red Sky in Morning, The Black Snow, Grace, and Beyond the Sea. Prophet Song, his fifth novel, won the Booker Prize in 2023, cementing his place among the most important voices in contemporary Irish and…