Tomi Obaro is an editor at BuzzFeed News. Dele Weds Destiny is her first novel. 

The New York Times Book Review calls Dele Weds Destiny a “loving and lively debut novel … Obaro’s unadorned style can come into its own … the quality of writing takes on a political power.”

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“The bonds between women—as friends, and across the generations—are the jewels that make this story shine.” 
— Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

“Dele Weds Destiny is, among a great many other things, such a generous and patient consideration of life, and of lives. Tomi Obaro is such a skilled writer, with an eye towards the vivid and vivacious moments that others might dismiss as stillness. I am so thankful for the world of this book, and so excited for everyone who gets to sit in it.” 
— Hanif Abdurraqib, author of They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Janice P. Nimura received a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her work on The Doctors Blackwell, which was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Her previous book, Daughters of the Samurai, was a New York Times Notable book in 2015. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian, and LitHub. 

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“Deftly, with a keen eye, Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor.”
— Stacy Schiff

Dorothy Wickenden is the author of Nothing Daunted and The Agitators. Since 1996 she has been the executive editor of The New Yorker, and she also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast “The Political Scene.” A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Wickenden was national affairs editor at Newsweek from 1993 to 1995 and previously was the longtime executive editor of the New Republic. 

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“Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Frances A. Seward are the examples we need right now—another time of divisiveness and dissension over our nation’s purpose ‘to form a more perfect union.’” 
— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Lynn Garafola is a professor emerita of dance at Barnard College, Columbia University. A historian and critic, she is the author of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, and most recently La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern. She has also curated three major New York-centered exhibitions—on New York City Ballet, Jerome Robbins, and Arthur Mitchell. A former Getty Scholar, she is a recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

Marina Harss is a writer, journalist, and critic based in New York City, writing on all aspects of dance, and occasionally on opera. Her writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Fjord Review, Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, and elsewhere. She has also written for The Nation, the Guardian, The Threepenny Review, the Boston Globe, Ballet Review, Dance Gazette, Playbill, and BAMBill. She is the author of an upcoming book about the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, to be published by Farrar Straus and Giroux in 2023.

Brigid O’Keeffe is professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is the author of The Multiethnic Soviet Union and Its Demise; Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia (winner of the Ab Imperio Prize); and New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union. O’Keeffe is at work on her next book, “The Family Litvinov: A History of the Twentieth Century.”

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“Brigid O’Keeffe’s wonderful book is a gem in miniature. No other work explains the multinational complexity of the USSR so insightfully in such a brief form.” 
— Willard Sunderland, professor of modern history, University of Cincinnati

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Victoria Smolkin is associate professor of history at Wesleyan University. Her first book, A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism (2018), was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2019 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, and the Russian translation was longlisted for the Alexander Patigosky Literary Prize. She is currently at work on two projects: “The Wall of Memory: Ukraine and the Impossibility of History,” and “The World of Tomorrow: Communism, Cosmism, and the Fate of Utopia.”

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“This is a very important book, highly innovative and superbly researched. Smolkin has written nothing less than a history of the making, and subsequent unmaking, of Soviet atheism. A must-read.”
—Denis Kozlov, author of The Readers of “Novyi Mir”: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past  

Sam Sifton is an assistant managing editor at the New York Times and the founding editor of New York Times Cooking, for which he writes newsletters. He previously served as the newspaper’s food editor, its national news editor, its restaurant critic, and its culture editor. Sifton is the author of several cookbooks, most recently See You on Sunday and The New York Times No-Recipe Recipe Cookbook. 

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“Sam Sifton wants you to ditch the recipe and have some fun in the kitchen. The founding editor of NYT Cooking does away with fussy ingredient lists and step-by-step instructions, opting instead for casual, conversational descriptions that allow home cooks to improvise, learn and evolve.”
— TimeOut

Melissa Clark is a food columnist for the New York Times/New York Times Cooking, where she writes the popular column “A Good Appetite” and has starred in over 100 cooking videos. She’s written 45 cookbooks, the latest of which, Dinner in One, focuses on one-pot, one-pan, one-skillet meals. She’s the recipient of two James Beard Awards and two IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) Awards, and her work has been selected for the Best American Food Writing series. 

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“As always, Clark has home cooks in mind with this collection of streamlined, crowd-pleasing recipes; perfect for beginning cooks and readers looking to build a repertoire of sure-fire dinner options.”

— Library Journal