Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Hartzler has written books, screenplays, and a great number of tweets. His first book, "Rapture Practice" (2013) is a true story about his own life, a memoir about getting kicked out of his Christian high school in Kansas City two weeks before graduation. His novel "What We Saw" (2015... Read More →

Higgins is a librarian at an independent school in Los Angeles. She is the author of “A Rambler Steals Home” (HMH, February 2017) and two forthcoming picture books from Chronicle Books, “This is Not a Valentine” (Fall 2017 with Lucy Ruth Cummins) and “Everything You Need... Read More →

Hopkins is the bestselling author of eleven young adult novels, as well as the adult novels "Triangles,” "Collateral” and "Love Lies Beneath.” She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative... Read More →

Marquardt is the author of two YA novels: "The Radius of Us" and "Dream Things True.” A Scholar-in-Residence at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, Marie also has published articles and co-authored two non-fiction books about Latin American immigration to the U.S. South... Read More →

Thrash is a staff writer for Rookie, a popular online magazine for teenage girls. “Honor Girl,” her first book, was a 2015 finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Graphic Novel/Comics. Her most recent book is “We Know It Was You.” She lives in Delaware.