


Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn is a journalist, essayist and co-author of Swirling: How to Date, Mate, and Relate Mixing Race, Culture, and Creed (Atria/Simon & Schuster). When she’s not writing, Paula is a professional violinist who has played and toured with orchestras and such national recording acts as No Doubt, Il Divo, and Love. She is also a former journalist for The Seattle Times, The Detroit News, and PEOPLE Magazine. She has sold pilots and features, and her TV credits include NBC’s The West Wing, SyFy’s Eureka, Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle, and The CW’s Supergirl. Norton & Co.), a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard, received five starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Horn Book, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. Her latest book, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement(Norton Young Readers/W.W. Paula Yoo is an award-winning children’s book & YA author, screenwriter, and musician. He is also a writer and an executive producer on the John Singleton FX drama series, “Snowfall.” Website His short fiction and nonfiction essays have been published in a wide range of outlets including T he New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Nation. He has had several of his books adapted for film and television including Devil in a Blue Dress and Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. From the first novel he published, Devil in a Blue Dress and its protagonist Easy Rawlins, Mosley’s work has explored the lives of Black men and women in America-past, present and future-in a rich exploration of genre. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages. Walter Mosley is the author of more than sixty critically acclaimed books of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and plays.

Brandon currently writes DC Comics’ Mister Miracle: The Source of Freedom and is on the Blizzard Entertainment writing team. He has written on a variety of recent and upcoming graphic novels including Judge Dredd: False Witness, Marvel Action Spider-Man, Transformers: Galaxies, and the hit Netflix TV series Transformers – War for Cybertron: Siege. An alumnus of the Disney/ABC Writing Program, Brandon wrote on season two of Marvel’s Agent Carter and adapted the Japanese horror franchise Vampire Hunter D for TV. He won five 2014 Glyph Awards and was nominated for an Eisner Award for his African-American inspired Watson and Holmes. His original graphic novel Shadowlaw won the 2013 Glyph Award for Best Writer. Animation 2011 reboot of Thundercats and Transformers: Rescue Bots. Brandon Easton broke into television writing with the Warner Bros.
