Reading Venue: TBA Date TBA BUY FESTIVAL PASS Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, as well as the anti-memoir The Chronology of Water. Her TED Talk on the Beauty of Being a Misfit, with over 2 million views, now has a corresponding [...]
Reading Venue: TBA Date TBA BUY FESTIVAL PASS Born in Zaria, Nigeria, Hafizah Geter serves on the board of VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, co-curates the reading series EMPIRE in Brooklyn, NY with Ricardo Maldonado and is co-VP of the Women's Caucus at AWP. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, [...]
Reading Venue: TBA Date TBA BUY FESTIVAL PASS Sandra Allen is the author of A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia (out 1/23/2018 from Scribner). A graduate of the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program ('12), she was formerly a features editor for BuzzFeed, and ran the online literary quarterly Wag's Revue. [...]
Reading Venue: TBA Date TBA BUY FESTIVAL PASS Jesús Carrasco was born in Badajoz in 1972 and currently lives in Seville. Since 1996 he has worked as an advertising copy writer. His first novel, Out in the Open, was declared Book of the Year by booksellers in Madrid and is already scheduled for publication in [...]
Reading Venue: TBA Date TBA BUY FESTIVAL PASS Lyz Lenz in the Managing Editor of The Rumpus. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review and others. Her book The Death of the Midwestern Church is forthcoming from Indiana University Press and Belabored: Tales of Myth, Medicine, and Motherhood [...]
Reading Venue: TBA Date TBA BUY FESTIVAL PASS Brandon Taylor is the associate editor of Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub. His work has appeared in The Rumpus, Little Fiction, Necessary Fiction, Gulf Coast, Catapult, and elsewhere. He is currently a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in fiction. LINEUP [...]
Reading Venue: TBA Date TBA BUY FESTIVAL PASS Stephen Ira’s poetry has appeared in The Spy Kids Review, heART Online, Alien Mouth, and other venues. He is a co-founder and co-editor of Vetch: A Magazine of Trans Poetry and Poetics. He is currently pursuing his MFA in poetry at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. More at [...]
Reading Venue: TBA Date TBA BUY FESTIVAL PASS Melody S. Gee was born in Taiwan and raised in Cerritos, California. Her first poetry collection, Each Crumbling House, won the 2010 Perugia Press Book Prize. Her second collection, The Dead in Daylight (Cooper Dillon Books, 2016) was a finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. [...]
Book Fair Venue: The Mill Saturday, April 7, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. BUY FESTIVAL PASS Kundiman is a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature. Kundiman creates a space where Asian American writers can explore, through art, the unique challenges that face the new and ever changing [...]
Book Fair Venue: The Mill Saturday, April 7, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. BUY FESTIVAL PASS VIDA is a non-profit feminist organization committed to creating transparency around the lack of gender parity in the literary landscape and to amplifying historically-marginalized voices, including people of color; writers with disabilities; and queer, trans and gender nonconforming individuals. [...]
