Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Fletcher, a 2012 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow, was a flash fiction finalist for the Orlando Prize. Her work has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, the Orange County Register, and Coast Magazine. She is currently working on her memoir, tentatively titled, "Halo.”.

Assadi received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. She was raised in Arizona by her Jewish mother and Palestinian father. She lives in Brooklyn. "Sonora" is her first novel.

Carter's work has appeared in the Colorado Review, Meridian, CutBank, and the South Carolina Review, among other literary journals and magazines. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her husband, the artist Rob Carter. “Lucky You” is her new book.

Johnson holds a master of professional writing degree from the University of Southern California and a BA in English from the University of California at Davis. She has served as a tutor at a private learning center, where her focus has been teaching writing to teenagers. Born and... Read More →

Wasserman is the author of the novel "Girls on Fire.” Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Tin House, The VQR, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and several short story anthologies. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of more than ten novels... Read More →