Our Authors

Outspoken film critic and storyteller devoted to expanding women’s voices and viewpoints in fiction, film and ...

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 is the author of two books, a live storyteller, and a professionally trained intuitive coach. He...

Best-selling author of Swanna In Love, Going Down, High Maintenance, Little Stalker, + The Seven Year Bitch. p...

Mahogany L. Browne, a Kennedy Center’s Next 50 fellow, is a writer, playwright, organizer, & educato...

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 is a Chinese-American memoirist and essayist who writes about identity, relationships, ...

Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of four novels that have been published in a total of twenty-one countries...

Deborah Copaken is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including Shutterbabe, The Red Book, ...

Michael Dahlie is the author of two novels, A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living and The Best of youth. He’s...

Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad M...

His first novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper, won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor. His second novel, Go,...

Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection.  Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, ...

Julia Fierro is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer and Cutting Teeth. Her work has been published ...

The fiction of Enchantment is Thaisa Frank’s third collection of short fiction and includes two semi-autobiogr...

Tad Friend is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker. His memoir, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the L...

Sarah Gerkensmeyer’s story collection, What You Are Now Enjoying, was selected by Stewart O’Nan as winner of t...

Lauren Grodstein is the author of five novels, including the Read with Jenna selection We Must Not Think of Ou...

The Dancing Dentist strikes into the hearts of weak willed women and up-shot men who want to learn how to tang...

Frank Haberle is the author of Shufflers (Flexible Press, Minneapolis, September 1 2021), a novel about transi...

Joshua Henkin’s most recent novel, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, was named The Book of the Year by the Chicago Tr...

Patricia Henley’s first novel, Hummingbird House (MacMurray & Beck, 1999), was a finalist for The National...

Joanna Hershon is the author of five novels: St. Ivo (Farrar, Straus & Giroux April 2020), Swimming, The O...

Cara Hoffman is the author of Running, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, an Esquire Magazine Best Book o...

John Jodzio is a winner of the Loft-McKnight Fellowship and the author of the short story collections Get In I...

Sarah Kain Gutowski (she/her) is the author of The Familiar (forthcoming 2024) and Fabulous Beast: Poems, whic...

JESSICA FRANCIS KANE grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Yale University. Her first short story...

Anne Korkeakivi is the author of the novels Shining Sea and An Unexpected Guest, both from Little, Brown. Her ...

Kara (pronounced kǎra) grew up in Ohio and Indiana, graduated from Vassar College and holds a Masters in Liter...

Heather Kristin has written for Glamour, The Independent, Salon, Slate, and has been interviewed on Latino NPR...

Sarah grew up on Long Island and got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and also received h...

Stewart Lewis is a six-time published author and singer-songwriter who is based out of Nashville, TN and Nantu...

When I was young, I didn’t think about becoming a writer. In fact, I was determined to become a ballerina, bec...

Julie Metz is the author of the newly released memoir Eva and Eve and the New York Times bestselling memoir Pe...

Meg Mullins is the author of three books published by Viking Penguin: THE RUG MERCHANT, DEAR STRANGERS and THI...

Leigh Newman’s collection Nobody Gets Out Alive (Scribner) was long listed for the National Book Award f...

Poet, social worker, mama, and Scorpio are among the identities of Stella Padnos. Her poetry appears in variou...

I was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, raised in Cheverly (on the outskirts of Washington D.C.), tormented in ...

Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a...

Austin Ratner is an M.D.-turned-writer and Editor in Chief of The American Psychoanalyst, the magazine of the ...

John Reed is the author of A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), The Whole (Simon & Schuster / MTV Books), the ...

Liz Rosenberg is the author of one adult fiction novel (HOME REPAIR, Harper/Avon, a Target Breakout Book and S...

Jeffrey Rotter is the author of The Unknown Knowns, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. His writ...

Léna Roy was raised in New York City, in the cloistered environs of a theological seminary, and survived the e...

Kristen Schultz Dollard is the Digital Director of Self magazine. She is the former editor of iyogalife.com an...

Abby Sher is a writer and performer whose work has appeared in various anthologies and amagazines as well as i...

Rachel Sherman holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney’...

Mark Shulman has published more than 100 children’s books of every kind. He has also produced nonfiction, triv...

Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the bestselling novel...

Anna Solomon is the author of three acclaimed novels—The Book of V., Leaving Lucy Pear, and The Little Bride—a...

Darin Strauss is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, and More ...

Whitney Terrell’s novel, The Good Lieutenant (FSG), was selected as a best book of 2016 by The Washingto...

Ellen Umansky is the author of The Fortunate Ones, which Booklist named as one of the best debut novels of 201...

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, originally from Roanoke, Virginia, has lived in Spokane, Washington since 1990. She graduat...

Laura is the author of several time management and productivity books. Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm ...

Max Watman lives and writes on an old farm in Powhatan, Virginia. He is the author of Race Day, on the history...

Courtney Zoffness is the author of the memoir-in-essays SPILT MILK (McSweeney’s), which Publishers Weekly call...