Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Wallen, a novelist and memoirist, is Associate Director of the New York State Summer Writers' Institute. In addition, she teaches private workshops and edits manuscripts. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Normal School, Country Living, The Writers' Chronicle... Read More →

Francis' first novel "The Great Inland Sea" was published in seven languages. His second, "Stray Dog Winter,” named Novel of the Year in the Australian Literature Review, won the American Library Association Stonewall Prize for Literature. His short fiction has appeared in Best... Read More →

Haslett is the author of the novel “Union Atlantic” and the New York Times best-selling short story collection “You Are Not a Stranger Here,” which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. His current book, “Imagine Me Gone,” was on the 2016 National... Read More →

Hill's short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, where he was awarded the annual Fiction Prize. A native Iowan, he lives with his wife in Naples, Florida. His acclaimed first novel “The Nix” is a... Read More →

Woodson is the bestselling author of "Another Brooklyn" which was a 2016 finalist for the National Book Award, NAACP Image Award, a 2016 Los Angeles Times’ Christopher Isherwood Prize finalist for Autobiographical Prose, and a #1 Indie Pick. Her 2014 New York Times bestseller "Brown... Read More →