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Novelists, memoirists, parents, pilots, and gardeners — the common thread is a story worth binding.

Portrait of novelist Mara Ellison

Mara Ellison

Fiction

Writes coastal novels about the maps families draw around each other — and the floods that redraw them.

Author of Salt & Cinder

Portrait of novelist Elias Thorn

Elias Thorn

Historical Fiction

A former archivist who spent a decade in maritime records before turning them into sweeping family sagas.

Author of The Cartographer's Daughter

Portrait of educator June Okafor

June Okafor

Children & Family

Primary-school teacher and mother of three, on a mission to fill every home with read-aloud rituals.

Author of Raising Wild Readers

Portrait of memoirist Harriet Vane

Harriet Vane

Memoir

Guided ships through the narrows for forty years; now guides readers through grief, patience, and repair.

Author of A Life in Full Chapters

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