Join acclaimed novelists Naima Coster and Leesa Cross-Smith in conversation with Grand Central Publishing editor Seema Mahanian.

Naima Coster is one of the National Book Foundation's 5-Under-35 honorees for 2020, and the author of the upcoming novel What's Mine and Yours (3.2.21) and Halsey Street, a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Fordham University and Yale.

Leesa Cross-Smith is the author of So We Can Glow, Whiskey & Ribbons, Every Kiss a War, and the forthcoming This Close to Okay (2.2.21). She is a recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Literary Fiction, and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and nominated for the PEN Open Book Award.

Naima Coster and Leesa Cross-Smith In Conversation