Fiona Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels including The Dollhouse, The Address, The Lions of Fifth Avenue, and The Magnolia Palace, which was a Good Morning America Book Club pick. She lives in New York City and is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School.

Mia Dillon is a Tony-nominated stage actress whose Broadway credits include Our Town, The Miser, The Corn Is Green, Hay Fever, Agnes of God, Crimes of the Heart, and Da. She has worked extensively off-Broadway and regionally from San Diego to Dublin, and her work has been honored with the Connecticut Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk nomination, the Clarence Derwent Award, and a Dramalogue Award, among others. Her film and television appearances include all three Law & Orders, Brain Dead, The Jury, Mary, Rhoda, Gods and Generals, The Money Pit, Ordinary World, All Good Things, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Upcoming projects include the soon to be released Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Mary Ann Evans (1819 - 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, The Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda.

Min Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She is the recipient of the 2022 Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, Bucheon Diaspora Literary Prize, the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Prize for Creativity from South Korea, and fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Lee is a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College and serves as a trustee of PEN America and a director of the Authors Guild. She is at work on her third novel, American Hagwon, and a nonfiction work, Name Recognition.

Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism.