2018 Authors

These are the featured authors from our 2018 festival! 

 

 

Megan Abbott The Fever, You Will Know Me, The End of Everything etc.

Christina Baker Kline A Piece of the World, Orphan Train, The Way Life Should Be, Sweet Water, Bird in Hand etc. 

Josiah Bancroft Senlin Ascends, The Arm of the Sphinx

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore June, Bittersweet etc.

Nancy Burke, From the Abuelas’ Window, If I Could Paint the Moon Black

Nicole Dennis Benn Here Comes the Sun

Marcy Dermansky The Red Car, Twins, Bad Marie

Alice Elliott Dark In the Gloaming, Think of England

Dagmara Dominczyk The Lullaby of Polish Girls

Garth Risk Hallberg City of Light, Field Guide to The North American Family

Dara Horn Eternal Life, A Guide for The Perplexed, All Other Nights etc.

Samantha Hunt The Dark Dark

Min Jin Lee Pachinko, Free Food for Millionaires

Belinda McKeon  Tender, Solace, A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance

Jillian Medoff This Could Hurt, Good Girls Gone Bad, I Couldn’t Love You More, Hunger Point

Tom Perrotta novelist and screenwriter, author of Mrs Fletcher, Little Children, The Election etc.

Wena Poon Chang’an, Cafe Jauze etc

Anna Quindlen Alternate Side, Miller’s Valley, Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue

Jonathan Santlofer It Occurs to me that I am America: New Stories and Art (editor), Kate McKinnon novels etc.

Matthew Thomas We Are Not Ourselves

Kem Joy Ukwu Locked Gray / Linked Blue, Brain Mill Press February 2018

Kristen Witucki, The Transcriber, Outside Myself

Meg Wolitzer The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, This is My Life etc.

Thad Ziolkowski Wichita

Rich Douek Gutter Magic

Emily Flake Mama Tried: Dispatches From the Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting,

Kevin Pyle Bad For You: Exposing the War on Fun; Blind Spot, Take What You Can Carry etc.

R. Sikoryak Masterpiece Comics, Terms and ConditionsThe Unquotable Trump

Lauren Weinstein Girl Stories, Inside Vineyland, Goddess of War

Colette Bryce Selected Poems, The Whole and Rain-domed Universe, Self-Portrait in the Dark etc.

Pamela Hughes Meadowland Take My Hand

Ghana Imani Hylton 

Teka Lark Queen of Inglewood

Ananda Lima

Tanya Manning-Yarde Every Watering Word

Michael Robbins The Second Sex, Alien vs Predator

Roger Sederat Haji as Puppet: An Orientalist Burlesque, Foot Faults: Tennis Poems, Ghazal Games: Poems, Dear Regime etc.

Carole Stone Late, Hurt, The Shadow, American Rhapsody 

Vincent Toro Stereo. Island. Mosiac

John Trause Why Sing?Picture ThisFor Your Eyes and EarsExercises in High Treason etc.