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A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Adam Eli
Adam Eli is a writer, community organizer, and communications person based in NYC. His first book The New Queer Conscience was released by Penguin Workshop in June 2020.


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Sarah Hoover
Sarah Hoover built a career in the art world before turning full-time to writing. Her essays on motherhood, identity, and cultural expectations have appeared in Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, The Strategist, and Harper’s Bazaar amongst many others. In early 2025, she released her critically acclaimed, unflinching memoir The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Connor Holloway
Connor Holloway is a dancer, reader, writer, producer, and content creator. Connor moved to New York City in 2013 to dance with American Ballet Theatre, where they met Isabella Boylston and later launched the Webby-nominated Ballerina Book Club, in partnership with ALL ARTS in 2020...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Meredith Graves
Meredith Graves is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and public scholar based in Brooklyn, NY. Her professional resume includes time spent as the host of MTV News and later, Outreach Director at Kickstarter, where she founded multi-million-dollar fundraising programs specifically designed for occultural artists, including those in the publishing space...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Levi Higgs
Levi Higgs is Head of Archives & Brand Heritage at David Webb, a role he has held since 2013. He holds an MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from Parsons, The New School, in collaboration with the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum. A jewelry and decorative arts historian, Levi brings a deeply informed and endlessly curious eye to the material culture he studies...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Camille Okhio
Camille Okhio is a New York-based writer, curator, and historian. Her work has appeared in W Magazine, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Wallpaper*, Elle Décor, Vogue and more. She is recognized for her ability to contextualize design within broader discussions around history and culture, and has held speaking engagements and participated in critiques at Aspen Art Museum...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Sasha Bonét
Sasha Bonét is a writer, critic, and editor living in New York City. Her debut memoir The Waterbearers, selected by TIME Magazine as one of the best books of 2025, is "a sweeping intergenerational memoir and cultural history on Black matriarchy in America" (Knopf, 2025). Bonét’s criticism and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Aperture, New York Magazine, Vogue, Harper’s...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Alex Assouline
Alex Assouline is the President of Assouline, a luxury publishing house founded in Paris in 1994. Alex plays an essential part in the strategy and expansion of Assouline’s digital platforms and in developing business opportunities. He also oversees the company’s key departments, including marketing, communications, wholesale, retail, logistics, digital and interior design...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Connor Holloway
Connor Holloway (they/them) born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, is a dancer, reader, writer, producer and content creator. Connor...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Karah Preiss
Karah Preiss is a creative producer living in New York City. She cofounded Belletrist Book Club with actress Emma Roberts, along with...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Sarah Hoover
Sarah Hoover's writing has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s Bazaar, Psychology Today, Mother Tongue, The Strategist...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Levi Higgs
Levi Higgs is the Head of Archives and Brand Heritage at David Webb, and a jewelry and decorative arts historian. A graduate of the...


A Conversation with NYIABF Ambassador Meredith Graves
Meredith Graves is a multimedia artist, writer and researcher based in Brooklyn, NY, whose professional resume includes time spent as the...
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