JESPER BENGTSSON

JESSE FINK

JESSE FINK was a leading sportswriter for several years for magazines and TV networks in Australia and South-East Asia. Fink has authored several books, including the critically acclaimed memoir Laid Bare, which Australia's biggest-selling daily newspaper, Herald Sun, called 'an engrossing read'. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Jesse Mecham

Jesse Mecham founded YNAB in 2004 to help him and his new wife, Julie, watch their money. Studying for his master of accountancy at Brigham Young University at the time, he put his numbers wizardry to work to develop a system to track their expenses, and that became YNAB. He

Jessica & Berger Stern

Jessica Stern is a Lecturer on Terrorism at Harvard University and serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law. She was a member of the National Security Council Staff in 1994-95, and worked as an analyst at Livermore Lab. She is the author of ‘Denial: A

Jessica Gilmore

A former au pair, bookseller, marketing manager and seafront trader, Jessica Gilmore now works for an environmental charity in York. Married with one daughter, one fluffy dog and two dog-loathing cats, she spends her time avoiding housework and can usually be found with her nose in a book. Jessica writes

JESSICA HAGY

Jessica Hart

Jessica Simpson

Jessica Simpson is an icon in the music, fashion and entertainment industries. In 2005, she launched the Jessica Simpson Collection, now a global brand distributed in over 62 countries. She is married to former NFL player Eric Johnson and is the mother of two children.

Jhumpa Lahiri

jhumpa lahiri has been a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, but is currently teaching in New York. She has published her fiction in various US journals including the New Yorker, and has won several US prizes for her work.

Jia  Tolentino

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She grew up in Texas, attended the University of Virginia, and served in Kyrgyzstan in the Peace Corps. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. She was a contributing editor at The Hairpin and the deputy editor at

Jigna Kothari

Jigna Kothari’s previous credits include research for The Making of Om Shanti Om and Still Reading Khan. Jigna Kothari and Supriya Madangarli co-authored Mother Maiden Mistress: Women in Hindi Cinema, 1950-2010, which won a lot of critical acclaim.

Jigs Ashar

JIGS ASHAR is an award-winning writer and banker-turned-consultant. His first short story, The Wait is Killing was adjudged a winner by Jeffrey Archer in the Times of India–Write India Season 2 contest; and his second, Make(up) in India, chosen by Shobhaa De, was also a winner in the same season.

Jill A. Donenfeld

Jill Donenfeld is a writer, entrepreneur, and chef with recipes appearing in Food & Wine and articles in Men’s Journal and The Huffington Post. She is the founder of The Culinistas, a private chef and catering agency in NYC, LA, and Chicago and produces bottarga for top purveyors and restaurants

Jill MacDonald

Jill MacDonald trained as a singer and taught English literature and poetry. She is the co-author of A Battler All My Life with Joyce McCartan. She lives in Devonshire, close to family roots.

Jill Monroe

Jill Monroe makes her home in Oklahoma with her family. When not writing, she spends way too much time on the internet completing research” or updating her blog. Even when writing, she's thinking of ways to avoid cooking.”

Jill Santopolo

Jill Santopolo received an MFA in fiction writing, is the author of three successful children’s and young-adult series, and works as the editorial director of Philomel Books. An adjunct professor in The New School’s MFA program, she travels the world to speak about writing and storytelling. You can visit her

Jillian Burns

Jillian Burns fell in love while reading such classics as Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice in her teens and has been reading romance novels ever since. She lives in Texas with her husband of twenty-five years and their three half-grown kids. She likes to think her emotional nature –

JIM ROHN

JIM STOVALL

Jim Weber

Jim Weber joined Brooks Running Company as CEO in 2001 and is credited for the Seattle-based company’s aggressive turnaround, focusing the team solely on delivering personally inspiring products and experiences that keep people running. The business and brand success caught the attention of Warren Buffett, who declared Brooks a standalone

Jitendra Dixit

Jitendra Dixit is the West India editor of ABP News. Based in Mumbai, he has been reporting on crime, conflict and politics for over twenty years. He has worked with Aaj Tak and Star News earlier. As a crime journalist, he has reported extensively on the Mumbai underworld. He covered

Jo Coudert

Jo Leigh

Joanna Atherfold Finn

JOANNA ATHERFOLD FINN is the author of the short story collection Watermark (2018). She is a freelance journalist and has taught at theUniversity of Newcastle.

Joanna Coles

Joanna Coles is the chief content officer of Hearst Magazines and serves on the board of Snap Inc. She is the executive producer of The Bold Type on Freeform, a scripted show inspired by her life as a magazine editor, and starred in the docuseries So Cosmo on E!. Born

Joanna Gaines

Joanna Gaines is the co-founder of Magnolia, a home and lifestyle brand based in Waco, Texas, that she started with her husband, Chip. The authors of the New York Times bestseller The Magnolia Story, Chip and Joanna have been remodeling homes for more than a decade– as seen by their

Joanna Glen

Joanna Glen read Spanish at the University of London, with a stint at the Faculty of Arts at Córdoba University in the south of Spain. She went on to teach Spanish and English to all ages, and, latterly, was a school principal in London. Joanna’s short fiction has appeared in

Joanna Neil

Joanna Neil loves writing romance and has written more than sixty books for Harlequin Mills & Boon. Before her writing career started she had a variety of jobs, which included being a telephonist, a clerk, as well as nursing and work in a hospital pharmacy. She was an infant teacher

Joanne Adams

Joanne Rock

While working on her master's degree in English literature, Joanne Rock took a break to write a romance novel and quickly realized a good book requires as much time as a master's program itself. Today, Joanne is a frequent workshop speaker and writing instructor at regional and national writer conferences.