Zabryna Guevara is best known for her roles on New Amsterdam and The Get Down. Additional film and television credits include Gotham, Dr. Death, Law & Order, 3 lbs, Person of Interest, Blue Bloods, Burn Notice, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Chicago Med, The Handmaid’s Tale, Snowfall, Irreplaceable You, The Incredible Jessica James, Castle Rock, Swallow, Tell Me a Story, The Twilight Zone, and Emergence. Guevara’s roots lie in theater, and she most recently appeared in Quiara Alegria Hudes’ stage adaptation of her memoir, My Broken Language, at Signature Theater. She has originated roles and co-starred in many off-Broadway productions, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Water by the Spoonful, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, The Cook, Chimichangas and Zoloft, Sonia Flew, El Paso Blue, Santa Concepción, Tight Embrace, Now and Then, and Bulrusher. A native of New York City, Guevara graduated with a BA from Fordham University at Lincoln Center.

Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, and What Are You Going Through, among others. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the National Book Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Guggenheim. Her books have been translated into thirty languages. The Vulnerables was published on November 7th.

Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Olive, Again, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; The Burgess Boys, named one of the best books of 2013 by the Washington Post and NPR; Abide with Me, a national bestseller; Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; Oh William!, shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize; and Lucy by the Sea, shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Strout was inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Letters in May 2022.