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Sara Johnson Allen
Napa, Nantucket, and North Carolina: The Power of Place — Saturday 1:00 PM
Sara Johnson Allen was raised (mostly) in North Carolina. Her first novel, Down Here We Come Up, is the winner of the 2022 Big Moose Prize and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in August 2024. Her fiction has appeared in PANK magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Reckon Review. In 2018, she was awarded the Marianne Russo Award for Emerging Writers by the Key West Literary Seminar for her novel-in-progress. In 2019, she received the Stockholm Writers Festival First Pages Prize. She has also been awarded MacDowell fellowships and an artistic grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. Photo Credit: Liz Linder.
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C. B. Bernard
North by Northwest: C.B. Bernard’s Ordinary Bear — Saturday 10:00 AM
C.B. Bernard is the author of the novels Ordinary Bear and Small Animals Caught in Traps, and of Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now, a Publishers Weekly and National Geographic top pick and finalist for the Oregon Book Award in nonfiction. His fiction and essays have appeared in Catapult, Gray’s Sporting Journal, and elsewhere. A Merrimack Valley native, he called Alaska and Oregon home for much of his life but now lives on the Rhode Island coast with his wife, Kim, a retriever named Nessie, and the ghosts of a couple of dogs.
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Adrienne Brodeur
The Ties That Bind: Complicated Families and Their Secrets — Saturday 3:00 PM
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Michael Cunningham
A Pandemic Novel in Three Acts: Michael Cunningham Is Back — Saturday 10:15 AM
Michael Cunningham’s most recent novel, Day, was published in November 2023. His other novels include A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as a story collection, A Wild Swan and Other Tales, and a book of non-fiction, Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. The Hours won the PEN Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. In 2002 it was made into a film starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, who received an Academy Award for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf.
The Hours was also the basis for an opera, composed by Kevin Puts, featuring Renee Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, and Joyce DiDonato, which debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 2022. It will be reprised at the Met, with the same cast, in May 2024. Cunningham’s essays and short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, New York Magazine, and other publications. He is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University. He lives in New York City.
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Daisy Alpert Florin
Lost Innocence: Daisy Alpert Florin in Conversation With Jill Gross — Saturday 11:30 AM
The Gateless Workshop: A Creative, Critic-Free Approach to Writing & Craft — Sunday 9:30 – 11 AM
Daisy Alpert Florin is the author of My Last Innocent Year, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Washington Post staff pick, and an Indie Next pick. Daisy attended Dartmouth College and received graduate degrees from Columbia University and Bank Street Graduate School of Education. She was a recipient of the 2016 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College and was a 2019–20 fellow in the BookEnds novel revision fellowship. A native New Yorker, she lives in Greenwich with her family.
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Julie Gerstenblatt
Napa, Nantucket, and North Carolina: The Power of Place — Saturday 1:00 PM
Julie Gerstenblatt holds a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from Teachers College, Columbia University, and has taught everything from middle school to graduate school and indoor cycling. Her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post and Grown & Flown, among others. When not writing, Julie is a college essay coach. A native New Yorker, Julie now lives in coastal Rhode Island with her family and one very smart poodle mix. She likes to say that she moved from New York to Rhode Island to get closer to Nantucket, where she has been vacationing since the 1970s. Daughters of Nantucket, which received a starred review from both Booklist and Shelf Awareness, is her debut novel.
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Julia Glass
Small Town, Big Changes: Julia Glass on Vigil Harbor — Saturday 9:00 AM
Julia Glass is the author of the novels Vigil Harbor, A House Among the Trees, And the Dark Sacred Night, The Widower’s Tale, The Whole World Over, and the National Book Award–winning Three Junes, as well as the Kindle Single “Chairs in the Rafters.” I See You Everywhere, a collection of linked stories, won the 2009 SUNY John Gardner Fiction Award. Julia’s personal essays and short stories have been widely anthologized, and she has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a cofounder of Twenty Summers, a nonprofit incubator for arts and ideas in Provincetown, a member of the Provincetown Book Festival Committee, and a Senior Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College.
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Lauren Grodstein
Testimony: Stories of World War II — Sunday 1:00 PM
Lauren Grodstein is the author of five novels, including the Read with Jenna selection We Must Not Think of Ourselves, New York Times bestseller A Friend of the Family and the Washington Post Book of the Year The Explanation for Everything. Lauren’s work has been translated into French, Turkish, German, Hebrew, and other languages, and her essays and reviews have been widely published. She teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in New Jersey with her husband and children.
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Ann Hood
The Ocean State Comes to the Bay State — Saturday 11:30 AM
Ann Hood is the author of over a dozen novels, including the bestsellers The Knitting Circle, The Obituary Writer, and The Book That Matters Most. Her debut novel, the bestseller Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, has been in print since 1987. She has also written five memoirs, including Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which is the story of the death of her five-year-old daughter Grace from a virulent form of strep in 2002. The book was a NYT Editors’ Choice and was named one of the top ten non-fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. Her essays and short stories have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Food and Wine, Traveler, National Geographic Traveler, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and many more.
She has won two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing awards, a Best American Travel Writing award, and a Best American Spiritual Writing award. Hood’s most recent book is her memoir, Fly Girl, which is about her eight years as a TWA flight attendant from the late 70s to the mid-80s, spanning the Golden Age of Flying through deregulation and the beginning of vast system wide changes.
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Vanessa Lillie
Perfect Murders and Twisted Trails — Saturday 3:00 PM
Vanessa Lillie is the USA Today bestselling author of Blood Sisters, which was a Target Book Club pick and GMA Book Club Buzz Pick, as well as a Best Mystery of the Year from The Washington Post and Reader’s Digest. Her other bestselling thrillers are Little Voices, For the Best and she’s the creator and coauthor of the Young Rich Widows series set in Providence, R.I., where she lives. Originally from Miami, Oklahoma, she is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
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Celestine Martin
Romantasy Is in the Air — Saturday 9:00 AM
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Stephen McCauley
The Ties That Bind: Complicated Families and Their Secrets — Saturday 3:00 PM
Stephen McCauley is the author of eight novels, including The Object of My Affection, My Ex-Life and, most recently, You Only Call When You’re in Trouble. Several novels have been national bestsellers, and three were made into feature films. He currently serves as co-director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University.
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E.A. Neeves
Relationships and Revenge in YA Mystery — Sunday 2:15 PM
E.A. Neeves grew up in New England, where she spent many summers lifeguarding at an idyllic lake, and occasionally catching snapping turtles. She enjoys tea, swimming, and board games that take entire evenings to play. When she’s not writing, she can usually be found spending time with her family at their (probably not haunted) home in Salem, Mass. After You Vanished is her YA debut.
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Ed Park
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Namrata Patel
Napa, Nantucket, and North Carolina: The Power of Place — Saturday 1:00 PM
Namrata Patel is an Indian American writer who resides in Boston. The author of The Candid Life of Meena Dave, she examines diaspora and dual-cultural identity among Indian Americans in her writing and explores this dynamic while also touching on the families we’re born with and those we choose. Namrata has lived in India, New Jersey, Spokane, London, and New York City and has been writing most of her adult life. Photo Credit: Andy Dean.
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Luanne Rice
The Ocean State Comes to the Bay State — Saturday 11:30 AM
Luanne Rice is the New York Times bestselling author of 38 novels, which have been translated into 30 languages. She received the Connecticut Governor’s Arts Award for excellence and lifetime achievement in the Literary Arts category. In 2002, Connecticut College awarded Rice an honorary degree and invited her to donate her papers to the college’s Special Collections Library. She has also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Conn. Several of Rice’s novels have been adapted for television, and she contributed a monologue to Motherhood Out Loud, a play that premiered at Hartford Stage Company and was performed Off-Broadway and at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Rice is a Creative Affiliate of the Safina Center. She lives on the Connecticut Shoreline.
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Kathleen Rooney
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Cynthia Leitich Smith
Relationships and Revenge in YA Mystery — Sunday 2:15 PM
Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee citizen) is an acclaimed NYTimes bestselling author, the 2024 Southern Mississippi Medallion Winner, an American Indian Youth Literature Award winner, and the 2021 NSK Neustadt Laureate. Cynthia is also the author-curator of Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint of HarperCollins, and was the inaugural Katherine Paterson Chair at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program.
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Lyra Selene
Romantasy Is in the Air — Saturday 9:00 AM
Lyra Selene was born under a full moon and has never quite managed to wipe the moonlight out of her eyes. She grew up on a steady diet of mythology, folklore, and fantasy, and now writes tall tales of twisted magic, forbidden romance, and brooding landscapes. Lyra lives in New England with her husband and daughter, in an antique farmhouse that probably isn’t haunted. She is the author of the young adult duology Amber & Dusk. A Feather So Black is her adult debut.
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Peter Swanson
Perfect Murders and Twisted Trails — Saturday 3:00 PM
Peter Swanson is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, and Her Every Fear, an NPR book of the year. His books have been translated into over 30 languages, and his stories, poetry, and features have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly, Measure, The Guardian, The Strand Magazine, and Yankee Magazine. A graduate of Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College, he lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts with his wife.
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Jordyn Taylor
Relationships and Revenge in YA Mystery — Sunday 2:15 PM
Jordyn Taylor is the deputy digital editor at Men’s Health magazine and the award-winning author of the young adult novels The Paper Girl of Paris and Don’t Breathe a Word. She is also an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Jordyn was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and now lives in New York. Follow Jordyn on Instagram at @jordyntaylor. Photo Credit: Louis David. Photography.
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Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Colonialism, Racism, and the Cosmos: A Conversation With Novuyo Rosa Tshuma — Saturday 11:00 AM
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Simon Van Booy
Editorial Magic: Author and Editor Reflect on a Novel About Second Chances — Saturday 3:00 PM
Simon Van Booy is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than a dozen books for adults and children, most recently The Presence of Absence and Night Came with Many Stars. He is the editor of three volumes of philosophy and has written for the Times, the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, and the BBC. His novels and short stories have been translated into many languages. Raised in rural North Wales, Simon currently lives between London and New York, where he is also a book editor and a volunteer EMT for Central Park Medical Unit and RVAC. In early 2020, he rescued his first mouse.
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Annie Weatherwax
Annie Weatherwax spent her early career as an artist sculpting superheroes and cartoon characters for entities including Nickelodeon, DC Comics, and Pixar. Winner of the Robert Olen Butler Prize for Fiction, her debut novel All We Had was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award and is now a major motion picture from Tribeca films. In 2017, she received The Hamilton Life Achievement Award for individuals with dyslexia. She was the inaugural fellow at the late New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson’s Lost and Found Lab residency. Most recently, character sketches and stories from her collection “Odd Balls and Relationships” appear in the winter 2023/24 issue of Ploughshares magazine.
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Beatriz Williams
Captivating Historical Fiction — Saturday 9:00 AM
Beatriz Williams is a New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before she turned her attention to writing novels that combine her passion for history with an obsessive devotion to voice and characterization. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards, have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world. Born in Seattle, Washington, Beatriz now lives near the Connecticut shore with her husband and four children, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.
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Lauren Willig
Captivating Historical Fiction — Saturday 9:00 AM
Lauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over twenty-five works of historical fiction, including Band of Sisters, The Summer Country, the RITA Award–winning Pink Carnation series, and five novels co-written with Beatriz Williams and Karen White. Her books have been chosen for the Book of the Month Club, the American Library Association’s annual list of the best genre fiction, and the Historical Novels Review Editors’ Choice. An alumna of Yale University, she has a graduate degree in history from Harvard and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She lives in New York City with her husband, two young children, and vast quantities of coffee. Photo credit: Amanda Suanne.
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Cynthia Zarin
A Love Story That Transcends Time — Saturday 11:30 AM
Cynthia Zarin is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Ada Poems and Orbit, as well as five books for children and two essay collections, Two Cities and An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History. Her debut novel, Inverno, was published in January, and Next Day: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming this summer. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she teaches at Yale University and lives in New York City.
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