Vinay Rai is the founder and president of Rai University.

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Born in rural Bangladesh, Zia Haider Rahman was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and at Cambridge, Munich, and Yale universities. He has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and as an international human rights lawyer. In the Light of What We Know is his first novel.

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Yasmin Rahman is a British Muslim born and raised in Hertfordshire. She has MAs in creative writing and writing for young people. Her novel, All the Things We Never Said, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and was the runner-up YA book in the inaugural Diversity Book Awards. She also works as a librarian.

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Mitri Raheb is founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, Palestine. Raheb is the most widely published Palestinian theologian to date, including his Orbis books Faith in the Face of Empire and, with Suzanne Henderson, The Cross in Contexts: Suffering and Redemption in Palestine.

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Lou Raguse is a journalist based in Minnesota specializing in crime and courts. Since 2005, he's reported for local NBC, CBS, and FOX affiliates in Minnesota, New York, Arizona, and South Dakota.

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Bruce A. Ragsdale served for twenty years as director of the Federal Judicial History Office at the Federal Judicial Center. The author of A Planters' Republic, he has been a fellow at the Washington Library at Mount Vernon and the International Center for Jefferson Studies.

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John A. Ragosta is a historian at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and the author of Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Legacy, America's Creed.

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Sabrina Ragone is a professor of comparative law in the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna, where she holds the post of head of international relations. She is also senior research affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, where she pursued her research between 2015 and 2017.

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Naomi Ragen is the author of an award-winning play, an influential and widely read Web site, and several international bestsellers, including Jephte's Daughter, which was listed among the one hundred most important Jewish books of all time.

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Lyn Ragan has penned several books on the afterlife, including Wake Me Up! and We Need to Talk, as well as a children's book, Berc's Inner Voice. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit Lyn at lynragan.com.

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Melissa Ragan is a former high school English teacher and has written and delivered professional development resources. She has written for companies like Scholastic, cocreated a family engagement program for HMH, and authored a high school transition and social and emotional learning curriculum for an ed tech startup.

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Kris Rafferty was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the youngest of four in a rambunctious Irish-American family. If she's not writing, she's reading all sorts of romance. Ms. Rafferty lives happily ever after in North Carolina, writing.

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