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Authors 2024 List

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Sarah

Sarah Adams  is the  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Cheat Sheet  and  Practice Makes Perfect . Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, she loves her family and warm days. Sarah has dreamed of being a writer since she was a girl, but finally wrote her first novel when her daughters were napping and she no longer had any excuses to put it off. Sarah is a coffee addict, a British history nerd, a mom of two daughters, married to her best friend, and an indecisive introvert. Her hope is to write stories that make readers laugh, maybe even cry—but always leave them happier than when they started reading.

Adams

The Rule Book: A Novel

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K.

K. Ancrum  is the author of award-winning thrillers, notably,  The Wicker King  and most recently  Lethal Lit: Murder of Crows . K. is a Chicago native passionate about diversity and representation in young adult fiction. She currently writes most of her work in the lush gardens of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ancrum

Icarus

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Katherine

Katherine Applegate  is the #1  New York Times -bestselling author of beloved and award-winning books for young readers, including  Odder,   Home of the Brave, Crenshaw, Wishtree ,  Willodeen,  and  The One and Only Ivan , for which she won the Newbery Medal. She is also the author of the Animorphs series, and a beginning reader series, Doggo and Pupper, illustrated by Charlie Alder. Katherine Applegate lives in Southern California with her family.

Applegate

Mouse and His Dog: A Dogtown Book

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Darnell

Darnell Arnoult is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace (Simon & Schuster) and two poetry collections, What Travels With Us and Galaxie Wagon (LSU Press), with shorter works in journals and anthologies. She has received the SIBA Poetry Book of the Year Prize, the Weatherford Award, the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award, and the Mary Frances Hobson Award in Arts and Letters and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives with her family in Mebane, NC. For more about Darnell and her workshops, visit darnellarnoult.net.

Arnoult

Incantations: Poems

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Ace

Ace Atkins  is an award-winning,  New York Times  bestselling author who started his writing career as a crime beat reporter in Florida.  Don’t Let the Devil Ride  is his thirtieth novel. His previous novels include eleven books in the Quinn Colson series and multiple true-crime novels based on infamous crooks and killers. In 2010, he was chosen by Robert B. Parker’s family to continue the iconic Spenser series, adding ten novels to the franchise. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his family. 

Atkins

Don't Let the Devil Ride: A Novel

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Joan

Joan Baez  is a dynamic force of nature. Her commitment to music and social activism has earned global recognition, ranging from induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, to the Ambassador of Conscience Award, Amnesty International’s highest honor. Retired from active performing since 2019, she has devoted much of her time to the “Mischief Makers” series of paintings, portraits that immortalize risk-taking visionaries she has known, who have brought about social change through history, from Dr. Martin Luther King and Bob Dylan to the Dalai Lama and Patti Smith.

Baez

When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems

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Louis

Louis Bayard  is the critically acclaimed bestselling author of nine historical novels, including  Jackie & Me  and  The Pale Blue Eye , which was adapted into the global #1 Netflix release starring Christian Bale. His articles, reviews, and recaps have appeared in the  New York Times , the  Washington Post ,  Salon,  and the  Paris Review . His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Bayard

The Wildes: A Novel in Three Acts

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Jack

Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits ​​​Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His work has appeared in the Southern Review, HAD, Radar Poetry, The Fourth River, Terrain.org, Construction, Grist, Sugar House, Shenandoah, Pidgeonholes, Cotton Xenomorph and other journals. Bedell is the recipient of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Individual Achievement in the Humanities Award and the Governor’s Award for Artistic Achievement. He was appointed by Governor John Bel Edwards to serve as Louisiana Poet Laureate, 2017-2019.

Bedell

Ghost Forest: Poems

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Michael

Michael T. Bertrand , professor of history at Tennessee State University, is the author of  Race, Rock, and Elvis .

Bertrand

Southern History Remixed: On RocknRoll and the Dilemma of Race

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Joanna

Joanna Brichetto  is a certified Tennessee naturalist and writes the urban nature blog  Sidewalk Nature: Everyday Wonders in Everyday Habitat Loss . Her essays have appeared in  Brevity, Short Reads, Ecotone, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Hippocampus , the  Hopper, Flyway,  the  Fourth River , and elsewhere. She lives in Nashville. 

Brichetto

this is how a robin drinks: essays on urban nature

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Kimberly

Kimberly Brock is the award-winning author of  The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare  and  The River Witch . She is the founder of Tinderbox Writers Workshop and has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national writing workshops including at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. She lives near Atlanta with her husband and three children. Visit her online at kimberlybrockbooks.com; Instagram: @kimberlydbrock; Facebook: @kimberlybrockauthor; Twitter: @kimberlydbrock.

Brock

The Fabled Earth: A Novel

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KB

KB BROOKINS is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. They are the author of  Freedom House  and  How to Identify Yourself with a Wound.  Brookins has poems, essays, and installation art published in  Academy of American Poets, Teen Vogue, Poetry  Magazine ,  Prizer Arts & Letters,  Okayplayer ,  Poetry Society of America, Autostraddle,  and other venues. They have earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, Equality Texas, and others.

Brookins

Pretty: A Memoir

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