Panelists: Phong Nguyen, Jocelyn Cullity, Vanessa Riley

Moderator: Trudy Lewis

We often act as though the West invented the idea of the powerful woman. Yet women have succeeded as political and military leaders throughout the world, often in times of revolution and transition. These three writers of historical fiction have researched and written novels about three such historical moments in which powerful women leaders emerged and fought and reigned.