Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Muske-Dukes is a former Poet Laureate of California, USC Professor and founder of USC's Creative Writing Literary Ph.D. program. Her ninth book of poems, "Blue Rose,” is forthcoming from Penguin in 2018. She has also published four novels, two essay collections, and has edited anthologies... Read More →

González is the author of 18 books, most recently "Unpeopled Eden", which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. The recipient of Guggenheim, NEA and USA Rolón fellowships, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society... Read More →

Levin is the author of five poetry collections, most recently "Mr. Memory & Other Poems," which is a finalist for the 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry. Her honors include the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, the... Read More →

Santiago is the author of "Tula,” winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, selected by A. Van Jordan. His writing has appeared in FIELD, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, and the Asian American Literary Review. The recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Mellon Foundation/American... Read More →

Sinclair is the author of "Cannibal,” one of the American Library Association's Notable Books of the Year. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown... Read More →