Coco Mellors

Coco Mellors is the New York Times bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Blue Sisters. She grew up in London and moved to New York as a teenager, where she received her MFA in fiction from New York University. Her 2023 release, Blue Sisters, was selected as a Read with Jenna/TODAY Show book club pick, and her debut novel, Cleopatra and Frankenstein, is currently being adapted for television by Warner Bros. Her novels have been translated into more than 20 languages, and her writing has also appeared in Vogue, The Cut, and the New York Times Modern Love column. She lives with her husband and son in New York, where she is currently working on her third novel.

Jessica Soffer

Jessica Soffer is the author of This Is a Love Story and Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots. She grew up in New York City, attended Connecticut College, and earned her MFA at Hunter College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Real Simple, Saveur, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She teaches creative writing to small groups and in the corporate space and lives in Sag Harbor, New York with her family.