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Joyce Carol Oates,
best-selling author, winner of the National Book Award, National Humanities Medal, Jerusalem Prize, Pulitzer finalist
Sunny Hostin,
Emmy-winning cohost of The View and best-selling author
Gloria Steinem,
political activist, feminist organizer, best-selling author
Anita Shreve,
NYT best-selling author, O. Henry Prize winner, Oprah’s Book Club pick
Sorboni Banerjee,
Emmy award-winning journalist and co-founder of YA by the Bay, a nonprofit teen reading and leadership festival
Elizabeth Banks,
star of The Hunger Games, Wet Hot American Summer, and director of Pitch Perfect 2 & 3
Firoozeh Dumas,
New York Times best-selling author of Funny in Farsi
James Marsden,
actor of X-Men, The Notebook, 27 Dresses, and Anchorman 2
Angelina Jolie,
UNHCR Special Envoy, Academy and Golden Globe Award-winning actress
Wally Lamb,
author of six NYT best-selling novels, twice selected for Oprah’s Book Club
Cindy Crawford,
author, activist, spokesperson
Jane Lynch,
actress, Emmy Award-winning host, and author of Happy Accidents
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BEST-SELLING AUTHORS
- Cheryl Strayed, author of NYT best seller and Oprah Book Club pick Wild
- Laura Dave, international best-selling author of The Last Thing He Told Me and Eight Hundred Grapes
- Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, NYT best-selling author of Happier, No Matter What
- Fiona Davis, NYT best-selling author of The Chelsea Girls
- Dani Shapiro, NYT best-selling author
- Christina Baker Kline, #1 NYT best-selling author of A Piece of the World and Orphan Train
- Caroline Leavitt, NYT best-selling author of Pictures of You and Is This Tomorrow
- Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown and This Is How You Lose Her
- Anne Lamott, NYT best-selling author and past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
- Tim Johnston, NYT best-selling author of Descent
- Alice Sebold, best-selling author of The Lovely Bones
- Tim O’Brien, National Book Award-winning author of The Things They Carried
- Sara Gruen, NYT best-selling author of Water for Elephants
- Gretchen Rubin, NYT best-selling author of The Happiness Project
- Hope Edelman, NYT best-selling author of Motherless Daughters
- Nicola Kraus, NYT best-selling coauthor of The Nanny Diaries
- Emily Giffin, NYT best-selling author of The One & Only and Something Borrowed
- Mike Roizen, MD, NYT best-selling author and founder of RealAge.com
- John Gray PhD, NYT best-selling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
- Gretchen Carlson, best-selling author of Be Fierce, one of TIMES’s 100 Most Influential People in the World
- Seth Godin, international best-selling author of 18 books, including Linchpin and The Icarus Deception
- Jonathan Maberry, NYT best-selling author
- Allison Pataki, NYT best-selling author of The Queen’s Fortune
- Richard C. Morais, NYT best-selling author of The Hundred-Foot Journey and Buddhaland Brooklyn
- Amy Ferris, author of Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis
- Stephanie Evanovich, NYT best-selling author of Big Girl Panties and The Sweet Spot
- Amy Hill Hearth, NYT and Washington Post best-selling author and recipient of two American Library Association Notable Book
- Victoria Christopher Murray, national best-selling author of The Ex Files
- Madeleine Blais, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of To the New Owners
- Jennifer Chiaverini, NYT best-selling author of Resistance Women
- Jack Canfield, NYT best-selling coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series
- David L. Robbins, NYT bestselling author
- Joyce Maynard, NYT best-selling author of The Best of Us
- Tasha Alexander, NYT best-selling author of The Adventuress
- Rochelle Weinstein, USA Today best-selling author of Somebody’s Daughter
- Marci Shimoff, #1 NYT bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul
- Mark Stein, NYT best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes
- Julia Keller, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Sorrow Road
AND OTHER HIGH-PROFILE FIGURES
- Norah O’Donnell, CBS Evening News anchor
- Eve Ensler, Tony-winning playwright of The Vagina Monologues
- Linda Fairstein, former Chief, Manhattan DA Sex Crimes Unit, USA Today best-selling crime novelist
- Cathy Richardson, lead singer Jefferson Starship
- Maggie Rowe, writer for Netflix’s Arrested Development, author of Sin Bravely, named one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
- Ed Deeter, screenwriter of There’s Something About Mary
- Gloria Vanderbilt, designer and author
- Gabby Reese, volleyball legend, Nike’s first female spokeswoman, and New York Times best-selling author
- Rosie O’Donnell, comedian, Emmy Award-winner, author, LGBT activist
- Maria Jacquemetton, Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer and Writer of Mad Men
- Holly Bario, President of Production, DreamWorks Studios
- Matt Iseman, host, American Ninja Warrior
- Kristin Chenoweth, Tony and Emmy Award–winning actress
- Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and columnist, NYT best-selling author, and founder of Prager University
- Dr. Ronald Leopold, Executive Director, Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
- Mike McCurry, former White House Press Secretary
- Amy Grant, sixth-time Grammy Award–winning artist
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She Writes Press and SparkPress have published and helped create over 200 best-selling authors, including two USA Today best-selling authors.
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The She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing (STEP) contest offers a publishing contract to 2-3 female authors of color each year, advocating for change in the industry by addressing the need for more diverse books. As of 2024, ten authors have published books via the STEP contest.