These pivotal BIO members share their experience as co-chairs of BIO’s June 5-6, 2025 annual conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Linda Leavell served as BIO’s president from 2019 to 2023, and her biography of American poet Marianne Moore, Holding On Upside Down, won BIO’s Plutarch Award for the best biography of the year, the PEN award for biography, and the Modernist Studies Association book award. With fellow biographer, professor emerita and Massachusetts Historical Society fellow Natalie Dykstra, Leavell co-organized BIO’s inaugural Biography Lab in 2023. Natalie Dykstra’s biography, Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life, won a NEH Fellowship and she was a finalist for the 2013 Massachusetts Book Award. For her recent book, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Dykstra received a NEH Public Scholars grant and BIO’s inaugural Robert and Ina Caro Research Fellowship. Linda Leavell and Natalie Dykstra were interviewed by BIO member and podcast producer Jenny Skoog.