Brian Eule is the author of the nonfiction book, Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors. He is the Managing Director for FRONTLINE on PBS, where he oversees FRONTLINE’s business operations and strategic planning under the leadership of FRONTLINE editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath. Eule has spent more than 20 years focused on journalism, originally writing for newspapers and most recently having created and directed the journalism grantmaking initiative at the Heising-Simons Foundation for nearly a decade. In his work at Heising-Simons, he focused on journalism as a critical component of a healthy and diverse democracy, wrote and spoke about the future of journalism, and managed a multi-million dollar portfolio of grants supporting investigative journalism and underrepresented voices in mass media. There, Eule created and directed the American Mosaic Journalism Prize “for excellence in long-form, narrative, or deep reporting on stories about underrepresented and/or misrepresented groups in the present American landscape.” He is a visiting professor at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism for the 2024-2025 academic year.
2025 Special Guests
Katy Hays is the author of The Cloisters, a New York Times and Sunday Times best seller, as well as Read with Jenna Pick. In addition to writing, Katy works as an adjunct Art History Professor, teaching rural students from Truckee to Tecopa. She holds an MA in Art History from Williams College and pursued her PhD in Art History at UC Berkeley. Her academic writing has been published by Ashgate, an imprint of Routledge.
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Rhoda Huffey is the author of two novels, 31 Paradiso and The Hallelujah Side, and her short fiction has appeared in Santa Monica Review, Ploughshares, and Green Mountains Review. She lives in Venice Beach with her husband and their many animals.
Michelle Latiolais is the author of the novel, Even Now, which received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. Her second novel, A Proper Knowledge, was published by Bellevue Literary Press, as was Widow, a collection of stories, involutions and essays. Her novel She was released in 2016 by W.W. Norton & Company. Recent work is forthcoming in Mississippi Review in 2025.
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Amy Tan is the international bestselling author of the novels The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Saving Fish from Drowning, and Valley of Amazement. She is the author of two memoirs, The Opposite of Fate, and Where the Past Begins; and two children’s books, The Moon Lady and Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat. Tan served as co-producer and co-screenwriter for the film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club and creative consultant for the PBS television series, Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat. She wrote the libretto for the opera The Bonesetter’s Daughter and is the subject of the American Masters documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir. Tan is an instructor of a MasterClass on Fiction, Memory, and Imagination. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her most recent book, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Knopf, April 2024) marks her debut as a nature journalist and bird artist.
She first attended the Community of Writers as a participant in 1985 and has since returned as a staff member and special guest for many years. She now serves on the Board of Directors of the Community of Writers.
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Bernice Yeung is the managing director of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Journalism. Previously, she was a reporter for ProPublica and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, PBS FRONTLINE and The New York Times, and she has been a member of investigative teams that have received a George Polk Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She is the author of In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers (The New Press, 2018), which received a PEN America Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.