Harper Audio Presents Creators & Guests

Bahni Turpin is an actor. She is best known for her roles in Malcolm X and Cold Case Files, and she is an award-winning audiobook narrator. Her audiobook career includes some of the most popular and critically acclaimed books in recent years, including "The Help" and "The Hate U Give." Two of her works were chosen by Elle Magazine in "The 20 Best Audiobooks To Listen To In Quarantine." She is also on AudioFile Magazine's list of Golden Voice Narrators.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media formerly known as O'Reilly & Associates. He popularized the terms "open source" and Web 2.0 and is known as a trend spotter in the world of tech and macro trends.

Dr. Frances Jensen, MD, is a neuroscientist whose research focuses on brain development from the neonatal period through adulthood. Currently, she is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Jensen has been Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Director of Translational Neuroscience and Director of Epilepsy Research at Boston Children's Hospital, and Senior Neurologist at Boston Children's and Brigham and Women's Hospitals.Dr. Jensen speaks about the teen brain and other brain-related trends and ideas in a wide range of settings, including museums; high schools; TEDMED talks and other conferences; and in print and on TV and radio stations.

Robin Miles is an actor, casting director, audiobook narrator, and audiobook director. She has narrated over 300 books. She also has a voice training school, VOXpertise, for aspiring narrators.Miles has appeared in Broadway shows and on TV shows, including "Law & Order" and "Murder by Numbers." She is best known for her audiobook narrations and narration director work.Miles received her B.A. in Theater and her M.F.A. in Drama from the Yale University School of Drama.

Jennifer Senior is a journalist and author. She currently writes for The New York Times as one of its three daily book critics. She is best known for her book, "All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood," which was published in 2014.Before joint the NYT, Senior was a staff writer for New York Magazine, writing profiles and cover stories about politics, social science, and mental health. Her writing has been anthologized in four editions of The Best American Political Writing. She was also a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine.Senior has been a frequent guest on NPR and on the television programs Charlie Rose, The Chris Matthews Show, Hardball, Morning Joe, Washington Journal with Brian Lamb, CNN American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360, Good Morning America, and Today. She spoke at both TED's 2014 annual conference.Senior received her degree in anthropology from Princeton University.

Kristen Meinzer is a host, commentator, speaker, producer, and author, specializing in contemporary social issues and popular culture.

Daniel Wallace is an author and teacher. He is a Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Creative Writing Program.Wallace's essays and interviews have been published in The Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun, and Our State magazine, where he was, for a short time, the barbecue critic. His short stories have appeared in over fifty magazines and periodicals, including Tin House, One Story, Glimmer Train, and The Georgia Review. His stories have been collected in Best American Short Stories, and Best Stories from the South. first novel, "Big Fish," was published in 1998, and he has since published five more. His children’s book, "The Cat's Pajamas," was published in 2014. His novels have been translated into over three-dozen languages.Wallace received the 2009 Sir Walter Raleigh Prize for best fiction published in North Carolina and the 2019 Harper Lee Award.

Stephanie Powell Watts is an author and an associate professor at Lehigh University.Watts's first book, the short story collection "We are Taking Only what We Need," was published in 2011 and won an Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her short fiction has been included in two volumes of the Best New Stories from the South anthology and honored with a Pushcart Prize. Her first novel, "No One Is Coming to Save Us," was published in 2017.Watts received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.