Our Authors
Thelma Adams
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Outspoken film critic and storyteller devoted to expanding women’s voices and viewpoints in fiction, film and ...
Sam Apple
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Sam Apple is on the faculty of the MA in Science Writing and MA in Writing programs at Johns Hopkins. He is th...
Rebecca Barry
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Rebecca Barry is the author of two books, a live storyteller, and a professionally trained intuitive coach. He...
Jennifer Belle
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Best-selling author of Swanna In Love, Going Down, High Maintenance, Little Stalker, + The Seven Year Bitch. p...
Mahogany L. Browne
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Mahogany L. Browne, a Kennedy Center’s Next 50 fellow, is a writer, playwright, organizer, & educato...
Marina Budhos
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Marina Budhos is an author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction. Her newest novel, We Are All We Have, a Ki...
Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
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Pang-Mei Natasha Chang is a Chinese-American memoirist and essayist who writes about identity, relationships, ...
Jennifer Cody-Epstein
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Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of four novels that have been published in a total of twenty-one countries...
Deborah Copaken
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Deborah Copaken is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including Shutterbabe, The Red Book, ...
Michael Dahlie
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Michael Dahlie is the author of two novels, A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living and The Best of youth. He’s...
Marcy Dermansky
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Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad M...
Larry Doyle
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His first novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper, won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor. His second novel, Go,...
Jennifer Egan
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Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, ...
Julia Ferro
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Julia Fierro is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer and Cutting Teeth. Her work has been published ...
Thaisa Frank
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The fiction of Enchantment is Thaisa Frank’s third collection of short fiction and includes two semi-autobiogr...
Tad Friend
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Tad Friend is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker. His memoir, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the L...
Sarah Gerkensmeyer
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Sarah Gerkensmeyer’s story collection, What You Are Now Enjoying, was selected by Stewart O’Nan as winner of t...
Lauren Grodstein
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Lauren Grodstein is the author of five novels, including the Read with Jenna selection We Must Not Think of Ou...
Lewis Gross
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The Dancing Dentist strikes into the hearts of weak willed women and up-shot men who want to learn how to tang...
Frank Haberle
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Frank Haberle is the author of Shufflers (Flexible Press, Minneapolis, September 1 2021), a novel about transi...
Joshua Henkin
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Joshua Henkin’s most recent novel, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, was named The Book of the Year by the Chicago Tr...
Patricia Henley
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Patricia Henley’s first novel, Hummingbird House (MacMurray & Beck, 1999), was a finalist for The National...
Joanna Hershon
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Joanna Hershon is the author of five novels: St. Ivo (Farrar, Straus & Giroux April 2020), Swimming, The O...
Cara Hoffman
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Cara Hoffman is the author of Running, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, an Esquire Magazine Best Book o...
John Jodzio
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John Jodzio is a winner of the Loft-McKnight Fellowship and the author of the short story collections Get In I...
Sarah Kain Gutowski
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Sarah Kain Gutowski (she/her) is the author of The Familiar (forthcoming 2024) and Fabulous Beast: Poems, whic...
Jessica Francis Kane
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JESSICA FRANCIS KANE grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Yale University. Her first short story...
Anne Korkeakivi
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Anne Korkeakivi is the author of the novels Shining Sea and An Unexpected Guest, both from Little, Brown. Her ...
Kara Krauze
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Kara (pronounced kǎra) grew up in Ohio and Indiana, graduated from Vassar College and holds a Masters in Liter...
Heather Kristin
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Heather Kristin has written for Glamour, The Independent, Salon, Slate, and has been interviewed on Latino NPR...
Sarah Langan
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Sarah grew up on Long Island and got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and also received h...
Stewart Lewis
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Stewart Lewis is a six-time published author and singer-songwriter who is based out of Nashville, TN and Nantu...
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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When I was young, I didn’t think about becoming a writer. In fact, I was determined to become a ballerina, bec...
Julie Metz
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Julie Metz is the author of the newly released memoir Eva and Eve and the New York Times bestselling memoir Pe...
Meg Mullins
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Meg Mullins is the author of three books published by Viking Penguin: THE RUG MERCHANT, DEAR STRANGERS and THI...
Leigh Newman
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Leigh Newman’s collection Nobody Gets Out Alive (Scribner) was long listed for the National Book Award f...
Stella Padnos
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Poet, social worker, mama, and Scorpio are among the identities of Stella Padnos. Her poetry appears in variou...
JT Petty
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I was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, raised in Cheverly (on the outskirts of Washington D.C.), tormented in ...
Arthur Phillips
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Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a...
Austin Ratner
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Austin Ratner is an M.D.-turned-writer and Editor in Chief of The American Psychoanalyst, the magazine of the ...
John Reed
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John Reed is the author of A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), The Whole (Simon & Schuster / MTV Books), the ...
Liz Rosenberg
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Liz Rosenberg is the author of one adult fiction novel (HOME REPAIR, Harper/Avon, a Target Breakout Book and S...
Jeffrey Rotter
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Jeffrey Rotter is the author of The Unknown Knowns, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. His writ...
Lena Roy
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Léna Roy was raised in New York City, in the cloistered environs of a theological seminary, and survived the e...
Kristen Schultz Dollard
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Kristen Schultz Dollard is the Digital Director of Self magazine. She is the former editor of iyogalife.com an...
Abby Sher
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Abby Sher is a writer and performer whose work has appeared in various anthologies and amagazines as well as i...
Rachel Sherman
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Rachel Sherman holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney’...
Mark Shulman
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Mark Shulman has published more than 100 children’s books of every kind. He has also produced nonfiction, triv...
Joanna Rakoff
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Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the bestselling novel...
Anna Solomon
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Anna Solomon is the author of three acclaimed novels—The Book of V., Leaving Lucy Pear, and The Little Bride—a...
Darin Strauss
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Darin Strauss is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, and More ...
Whitney Terrell
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Whitney Terrell’s novel, The Good Lieutenant (FSG), was selected as a best book of 2016 by The Washingto...
Ellen Umansky
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Ellen Umansky is the author of The Fortunate Ones, which Booklist named as one of the best debut novels of 201...
Daphne Uviller
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Daphne Uviller’s latest novel is This Was Not the Plan (coming May 2024). She is also the author of the Zephyr...
Nance van Winckel
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Nance Van Winckel, originally from Roanoke, Virginia, has lived in Spokane, Washington since 1990. She graduat...
Laura Vanderkam
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Laura is the author of several time management and productivity books. Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm ...
Max Watman
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Max Watman lives and writes on an old farm in Powhatan, Virginia. He is the author of Race Day, on the history...
Courtney Zoffness
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Courtney Zoffness is the author of the memoir-in-essays SPILT MILK (McSweeney’s), which Publishers Weekly call...