Grant Faulkner

is the executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the cofounder of 100 Word Story. He has published two books on writing, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo and Brave the Page: A Young Writer’s Guide to Telling Epic Stories. His essays on creativity have been published in the New York Times, Poets & Writers, LitHub, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer. He’s also cohost of the podcast Write-minded.