Ann Hood is the author of fifteen novels, including the international bestsellers The Knitting Circle, The Red Thread, and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine. Her most recent novel is The Stolen Child.  She has written five memoirs, most recently Fly Girl, which is about her days as a TWA flight attendant in the late 70s to mid 80s. Her memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly.

Hood has also written a ten-book series for middle readers and four YA novels. Her essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Food and Wine, Traveler, and many other publications. She has won two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing Awards, and a Best American Travel Writing and Spiritual Writing Award. She is the editor of Life’s Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls, which was published in November 2024.

Michael Ruhlman has written or co-authored more than 30 books of non-fiction, fiction, memoir and cookbooks, including Boys Themselves, Wooden Boats, and Walk On Water. He’s best known for his writing about food and cooking, both at home (Ratio, Ruhlman’s Twenty) and in professional kitchens (the Making of a Chef trilogy). He has won multiple Beard Awards for both books and magazine writing. He has worked with many chefs on their books, including Thomas Keller (The French Laundry Cookbook), Eric Ripert (A Return To Cooking), and Jean-Georges Vongerichten (JGV: A Life in Twelve Recipes). He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He lives with his wife, the novelist Ann Hood, in New York City.

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