Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist; Claire of the Sea Light, a New York Times Notable Book; Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah’s Book Club selection; and Krik? Krak!, also a National Book Award finalist. A 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature winner and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” grant, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, and elsewhere.
(Bio excerpt and photo from Literary Arts.) For more detail about the author see: https://edwidgedanticat.com.

Event details: Attendees will receive a virtual ticket to attend the event online, Thursday, May 21, 2022 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT.

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Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels, including The Overstory, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and spent over one year on the New York Times bestseller list. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award in 2006 for his novel The Echo Maker. Powers has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains. (Bio excerpt and photo from Literary Arts.) For more detail about the author see: http://www.richardpowers.net.

Event details: Attendees will receive a virtual ticket to attend the event online, Thursday, April 21, 2022 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT.

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Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller, and her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and in 2021, she was chosen as one of Time’s Next 100 Influential People. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel. (Bio excerpt and photo from Literary Arts.) For more detail about the author see: https://britbennett.com.

Event details: Attendees will receive a virtual ticket to attend the event online, Thursday, Feb 17, 2022 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT.

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Cathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections and Minor Feelings, a New York Times bestselling book of creative nonfiction which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, The New York Times, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and full professor at Rutgers University–Newark. (Bio excerpt and photo from Literary Arts.) For more detail about the author see: http://www.cathyparkhong.com.

Event details: Attendees will receive a virtual ticket to attend the event online, Thursday, January 27, 2022 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT.

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Daniel James Brown is the author of Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II, The Indifferent Stars Above, Under a Flaming Sky, which was a finalist for the B&N Discover Great New Writers Award, and The Boys in the Boat, a New York Times bestselling book that was awarded the ALA’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. He has taught writing at San José State University and Stanford University. He lives outside Seattle. (Bio excerpt and photo from Literary Arts.) For more detail about the author see: https://www.danieljamesbrown.com/.

Event details: Attendees will receive a virtual ticket to attend the event online, Thursday, October 14 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT.

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