Authors List View Brendan Slocumb BRENDAN SLOCUMB was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and holds a degree in music education with concentrations in violin and viola from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more than 20 years, he has been a public and private school music educator and has performed with orchestras throughout Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Symphony of Secrets: A Novel (Anchor) is his debut book; he is currently working on his second novel. Maggie Smith MAGGIE SMITH is the award-winning author of Good Bones: Poems, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison: Poems, Lamp of the Body, and the national bestsellers Goldenrod: Poems and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. A 2011 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Smith has also received several Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, with her work appearing in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and more. You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir (Atria/One Signal Publishers) is her latest book. Tracy K. Smith TRACY K. SMITH is a librettist, translator, and the author of five acclaimed poetry collections, including Life on Mars: Poems, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Ordinary Light: A Memoir, was a finalist for the National Book Award. From 2017 to 2019, Smith served as the 22nd poet laureate of the United States. She lives in Massachusetts. Jade Song JADE SONG is an artist, art director, and the author of Chlorine: A Novel (William Morrow), her debut novel published in 2023 by William Morrow/HarperCollins in the U.S. and Footnote Press in the U.K. Chlorine was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice, lauded as "visionary and disturbing" by Publishers Weekly, and listed as a must-read book by Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, and other outlets. Her art direction work has been awarded by and featured in Campaign, the Shorty Awards, and Ad Age, among others. She lives in New York City. Saket Soni SAKET SONI is a labor organizer and the author of The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America (Algonquin Books). He is also the founder and director of Resilience Force, a national nonprofit that advocates for the rising workforce that rebuilds after climate disasters. He was profiled as an "architect of the next labor movement" in USA Today and named in 2022 as one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business. His work was also the subject of a major feature story in The New Yorker. Soni has testified before Congress and at the United Nations. Originally from New Delhi, India, he lives in Washington, D.C. Saúl Sosnowski El argentino SAÚL SOSNOWSKI es profesor de Literatura y Cultura Latinoamericana en la Universidad de Maryland, College Park. Ha dirigido el Departamento de Español y Portugués (1979-2000), fue el Director fundador del Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos y también dirigió la Oficina de Programas Internacionales de la universidad. Fundador y editor de la revista de literatura Hispamérica, actualmente en su 52º año de publicación continua. Durante una década dirigió una serie de conferencias internacionales sobre "La represión de la cultura y su reconstrucción en el Cono Sur" (1984-1994), que dieron como resultado cinco volúmenes editados o coeditados que se publicaron en Buenos Aires, Montevideo, São Paulo, Santiago y Asunción. Autor de Julio Cortázar: una búsqueda mítica; Borges y la Cábala: la búsqueda del verbo (3 ediciones y traducido al portugués y al alemán); La orilla inminente: escritores judíos-argentinos; Fascismo y nazismo en las letras argentinas (con Leonardo Senkman); Cartografía de las letras hispanoamericanas; tejidos de la memoria (2015) y ha editado o coeditado 17 volúmenes. Entre sus publicaciones recientes se encuentra el volumen de poesía Rugido que toda palabra encubre, y las novelas Decir Berlín, decir Buenos Aires (2020, traducida al italiano) y El país que ahora llamaban suyo (2021), que Equidistancias edita este año como Estación del encuentro, y que el autor presenta en la Feria de Miami. Matthew Southworth MATTHEW SOUTHWORTH is a comic artist and writer based in Seattle. The acclaimed cartoonist behind The Cloven series, he is also the co-creator (along with Greg Rucka) of the comic book series Stumptown, as well as an executive producer of the ABC television series of the same name. Les Standiford LES STANDIFORD is the author of 25 critically acclaimed books, including 10 novels and the nonfiction Last Train to Paradise (now nearing its 40th printing); Palm Beach, Mar-A-Lago and the Rise of America’s Xanadu; Meet You in Hell; and Bringing Adam Home. His book The Man Who Invented Christmas was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and made into a feature film starring Christopher Plummer and Dan Stevens in 2018. He is distinguished university professor of English and founding director of the creative writing program at Florida International University, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Utah. He attended the U.S. Air Force Academy and Columbia School of Law, and is a former screenwriting fellow and graduate of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He lives in Miami with his artist wife Kimberly. Garth Stein GARTH STEIN is a New York Times bestselling author, filmmaker, and playwright based in Seattle. He is the winner of several literary awards, including two Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards. He is also the author of several plays and four books, including The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel, which has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, and has been produced as a stage play, children’s book, and film. Sally Susman SALLY SUSMAN is executive vice president and chief corporate affairs officer at Pfizer. She is also vice-chair of the Pfizer Foundation and co-chair of Pfizer’s Political Action Committee. Susman leads engagement with all of Pfizer’s external stakeholders overseeing communications, corporate responsibility, global policy, government relations, investor relations, and patient advocacy. Before joining Pfizer in 2007, she held several senior communications and government relations roles at Estée Lauder Companies and American Express. Earlier in her career, she spent eight years in government service focused on international trade issues. Susman serves on the board of UL Solutions, a global leader in applied safety science, and as co-chair of the board of the International Rescue Committee. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Rachel L. Swarns RACHEL L. SWARNS is a journalism professor at New York University and a contributing writer for The New York Times. She is also the author of American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama and a co-author of Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives. Her work has been recognized and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, the Biographers International Organization, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the MacDowell artist residency program, and others. Thomas Swick THOMAS SWICK was the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from 1989 to 2008. His work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, and he is the author of Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland; A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler; The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them; and Falling into Place: A Story of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers). He lives with his wife, Hania, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and does cartooning and street photography in his free time. Dr. Precious Symonette DR. PRECIOUS SYMONETTE is a Miami-Dade Public Schools educator and the founder of the Florida Freedom Writers Foundation. Nicole Tallman NICOLE TALLMAN is a poet, writer, and editor. A Michigan native, she lives in Miami, where she serves as the Miami-Dade County’s official poetry ambassador. Tallman is the author of three collections: Something Kindred, Poems for the People, and FERSACE. She serves as the editor of Redacted Books, poetry and interviews editor for The Blue Mountain Review, and associate editor for South Florida Poetry Journal. Tallman is also the creator and host of ELJ Editions' Be Well Reading series and the monthly Lunchtime Poetry & Jazz series at Miami-Dade County's Main Library. Find her on social media @natallman and NicoleTallman.com. Betty C. Tang BETTY C. TANG is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Jacky Ha-Ha series of graphic novels by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. She has worked for various Hollywood animation studios including Disney TV and Dreamworks Animation, and co-directed an animated feature called Where’s the Dragon? She is also a fourth degree black belt in aikido, a Japanese martial art. Born in Taiwan, she immigrated to California as a Parachute Kid when she was 10 and lives in Los Angeles. Learn more about her work at BettyCTang.com. Betty C. Tang BETTY C. TANG is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Jacky Ha-Ha series of graphic novels by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. She has worked for various Hollywood animation studios including Disney TV and Dreamworks Animation, and co-directed an animated feature called Where’s the Dragon? She is also a fourth degree black belt in aikido, a Japanese martial art. Born in Taiwan, she immigrated to California as a Parachute Kid when she was 10 and lives in Los Angeles. Learn more about her work at BettyCTang.com. Johnathan Taplin JONATHAN TAPLIN is a public intellectual, writer, film producer, and scholar. He is the director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California and was a professor at the USC Annenberg School from in the field of international communication management and digital media entertainment until 2017. Since his graduation from Princeton University in 1969, his extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: He was tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band, producer of major films such as Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, an executive at Merrill Lynch, creator of the internet’s first video-on-demand service, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium. Sam Taylor SAM TAYLOR has written for The Guardian, Financial Times, Vogue, and Esquire, and has translated such works as the award winning HHhH by Laurent Binet, and the international bestseller The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker. Mervyn Taylor MERVYN TAYLOR, a Trinidad-born poet and longtime Brooklyn, New York, resident, has taught at Bronx Community College, The New School, and in the New York City public school system. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including The Waving Gallery (2014), Country of Warm Snow (2020) – a Poetry Book Society Recommendation that was listed for the Bocas Lit Prize – and his latest, The Last Train: Poems (Broadstone Books). A chapbook, News of the Living: Corona Poems (Broadstone Books), was published in 2020. Currently, Taylor serves as co-editor on the advisory board of Slapering Hol Press in New York's Hudson Valley. Laura Taylor Namey LAURA TAYLOR NAMEY is The New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club pick, as well as A British Girl’s Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak (Simon & Schuster); When We Were Them; and The Library of Lost Things. A proud Cuban American, she can often be found hunting for vintage treasures and wishing she was in London or Paris. She lives in San Diego with her husband and two children. Oren J. Teicher OREN J. TEICHER worked on behalf of the nation's independent booksellers for more than 30 years, retiring as CEO of the American Booksellers Association at the end of 2019. While at ABA, he helped found the American Booksellers for Free Expression and was engaged in multiple First Amendment battles as its media coalition chair. He served as a trustee of his local library in White Plains, New York, and is currently serving as a board member at the National Coalition Against Censorship. Teicher was named Publishers Weekly Person of the Year in 2013 and in 2019 was awarded the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for outstanding service to the American literary community. Joseph Earl Thomas JOSEPH EARL THOMAS is a writer from Frankford, Pennsylvania, whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Virginia Quarterly Review, N+1, Gulf Coast, The Offing, and The Kenyon Review. He has an MFA in prose from the University of Notre Dame and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. An excerpt of Thomas’ critically acclaimed book Sink: A Memoir won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize, and he has received fellowships from Fulbright, Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, Tin House, and Bread Loaf. He is currently writing the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, and a collection of stories, Leviathan Beach. He is an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, as well as the director of programs at Blue Stoop in Philadelphia. Thomas is also the inaugural nonfiction fellow of the Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowships program, a residency during which he wrote Sink. Cal Thomas CAL THOMAS is one of the most popular syndicated columnists in the United States, appearing in hundreds of newspapers. He is also a veteran of television and radio news, having begun his journalism career at the age of 16. For 19 years, Thomas worked for the Fox News channel and before that with NBC News and KPRC-TV in Houston. 2019 marked the 35th anniversary of his column. James Frankie Thomas JAMES FRANKIE THOMAS is a lifelong New Yorker. He attended the City College of New York and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Thomas has worked as a video store clerk, a Shakespeare tutor, and the “YA of Yore” columnist for The Paris Review; he is currently a theater critic at Vulture. Idlewild: A Novel (The Overlook Press) is his debut book of fiction. Héctor Tobar HÉCTOR TOBAR is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free; The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel; Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States; and The Tattooed Soldier: A Novel. Tobar is also a contributing writer for The New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. He's written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, L.A. Noir, Zyzzyva, and Slate. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his family. Jeffrey Toobin JEFFREY TOOBIN is the New York Times bestselling author of American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst; The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court; The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court; Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election; A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President; The Run of His Life: The People vs. O.J. Simpson; and Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, he lives with his family in New York. Justin Torres JUSTIN TORRES is the author of We the Animals: A Novel, which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into 15 languages and adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” author, a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, and The Washington Post. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at UCLA. Alfredo Triff ALFREDO TRIFF es profesor de Filosofía en Miami Dade College y conferencista de Historia del Diseño en la Universidad de Miami. Ha sido crítico de arte y cultura para The Miami New Times (1998-2005), The Miami Sun Post (2006-2013) y El Nuevo Herald (2009-2015). Entre otros libros, ha publicado Pulpa (Imprimatur, 2001), The Miami Arts Explosion (Thomson, 2006), Hígado al ensayo (dadaMiami, 2009) y Miami Picadillo (Exodus, 2022). Este año presenta en la Feria ¿Por qué el pueblo cubano (aún) apoya el castrismo?, una obra políticamente incorrecta que deconstruye la ideología castrista y se transforma en un grito de alerta frente al desconcierto ideológico que invade a parte de la humanidad. Josh Tuiniga JOSH TUININGA is an author, artist, and graphic designer based in North Bend, Washington. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he has explored a variety of mediums in his artistic career, including sequential art, animation, painting, and design. In 2003, he founded an art and design agency, The Medium, where he continues to work as its creative director. Tuininga is the author of two children’s books, Why Blue? and Dream On, and the graphic novel We Are Not Strangers (Abrams ComicArts). He also makes music with his wife as the duo To the River. Brian Turner BRIAN TURNER is the author of Here, Bullet, and Phantom Noise. His memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, was published in 2014. He's the editor of The Kiss, co-edited The Strangest of Theatres, and his work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper's, and other fine journals. He was featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and is also a recipient of a USA Hillcrest fellowship in literature, an NEA Literature Fellowship in poetry, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, a U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Fellowship, the Poets' Prize, and a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He directs the MFA program in Lake Tahoe and lives in Orlando, Florida. Posts navigation ← Previous 1 … 13 14 15 16 17 18 Next →
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