Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Flores is a 2008 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow. Her short fiction has appeared in Post Road Magazine, The Open Bar at Tin House, The Rattling Wall, Paper Darts, Bridge Eight, FLASH: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books and American... Read More →

Benz has published short stories in The American Reader, Fence, and The Cupboard, and on Granta.com, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize. She received her MFA at Syracuse University as well as a BFA in acting from Boston University. She is of British-Antiguan descent and currently... Read More →

Johnson is the author of “Break Any Woman Down,” for which she received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the novel “Elsewhere, California.” Born and raised in and around Los Angeles, she is an associate professor of English at USC where she teaches literature... Read More →

Schiff graduated from Columbia University's MFA program, where she received a Henfield Prize. Her stories have appeared in n+1, Electric Literature, The American Reader, Guernica, The Guardian, and Lenny Letter. Her latest book is “The Bed Moved,” is a finalist for the 2016 L.A... Read More →

Unferth is the author of the collection of stories "Minor Robberies,” the novel "Vacation,” and the memoir, "Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War,” which was a finalist for a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has appeared in Harper's... Read More →