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SONA MOVSESIAN
Sona Movsesian is the New York Times bestselling author of The World's Worst Assistant. After over fifteen years of working with Conan O'Brien, Sona has become a regular feature of all things Conan and a fan favorite. Now, she cohosts Conan’s podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. Sona lives in LA with her husband and twin sons.
ELIOT GLAZER
Eliot Glazer is a comedian, actor, podcaster, musician, and writer for beloved TV shows including New Girl, Younger, and Broad City, on which he played "Eliot" in his most challenging role to date. His new book The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Gay features laugh-out-loud yet quietly heartbreaking stories that capture the glory, chaos, and contradictions of queer modern life—a rallying cry for anyone who’s ever felt like the odd one out, the minority within the minority, and the one who always seems to “do it wrong.” Kirkus Reviews calls it “hilarious, playful assessments from an antihero living on the fringes of the gay community.”
PAISLEY REKDAL
Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction and seven books of poetry, including West: A Translation, which won the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Utah Book Award in Poetry, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. The former Utah poet laureate, she directs the American West Center at the University of Utah. Her newest book of poems, Heritance, examines the personal and familial shames we inherit, challenges the reader to contextualize their perspective within the corporeal, and questions what it means to love outside of “the lens of someone else's imagining.”
JONNY’S DAY OUT
Jonny's Day Out is a five-piece Portland rock band built around ambient multi-instrumentalist Eli Goldberg and singer/guitarist/songwriter Avery Haines, who the Portland Mercury hails as "one of the most interesting vocalists in Portland right now, as refreshingly talented as he is flavorful." Drawing on jazz, classical, and folk traditions, the group moves between tender, washed-out ambient passages and sweet horn melodies before erupting into walls of wailing guitar and passionate shouts, a sound the Mercury describes as "tough-to-define guitar-pop." Their debut full-length, JDO, was released in May 2026, and the band has built a devoted local following, playing multiple sets at Pickathon 2026, including a Woods stage set that featured an actual wedding ceremony.