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2018 Festival Authors

Raymond A. Villareal
Jeff Abbott
Heather Abel
Sylvia Acevedo
Tomi Adeyemi
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Roda Ahmed
Rumaan Alam
Xhenet Aliu
Crystal Allen
Sandy Allen
Carol Anderson
Jose Antonio Vargas
Julissa Arce
Tacey M. Atsitty
John August
Mac Barnett
Cathy Barrow
Annie Barrows
Chris Barton
Shane Bauer
Kate Beasley
Chloe Benjamin
Fey Berman
Lou Berney
Cate Berry
Michael Beschloss
Sayu Bhojwani
Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Sarah Bird
Leslie Blair
David Bowles
H.W. Brands
Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Kenny Braun
Traci Brimhall
Jamel Brinkley
Rita Bullwinkel
Ryan Calejo
Wendy Calhoun
Amy Rose Capetta
Edward Carey
Pablo Cartaya
Cyrus Cassells
Elaine Castillo
Julián Castro
Adrienne Celt
Soman Chainani
Alexander Chee
Traci Chee
C.J. Chivers
Youmna Chlala
Mary H.K. Choi
Amy Chozick
Lenora Chu
Arree Chung
Nicole Chung
Michael Cirlos
Sandra Cisneros
Samantha M. Clark
Dhonielle Clayton
Carolyn Cohagan
Alyssa Cole
Ally Condie
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Alfredo Corchado
Naima Coster
Martha Cotera
Bill Cotter
Elizabeth Crook
Virginia Cumberbatch
Gretchen Daily
Jack E. Davis
Steven Davis
Erica Dawson
Matt de la Peña
Frances de Pontes Peebles
Paula Disbrowe
Jennifer Donaldson
Sharon Draper
Justin Driver
Casey Dunn
Glory Edim
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Erin Entrada Kelly
Heid E. Erdrich
Elizabeth Eulberg
Tarfia Faizullah
Ashley Farmer
Laurie Filipelli
Hugh Asa Fitzsimons III
Carolyn Dee Flores
Fernando A. Flores
AG Ford
Randal Ford
Kendra Fortmeyer
Ben Fountain
Carrie Fountain
Marla Frazee
Francis Fukuyama
Amy Fusselman
Aja Gabel
Gay Gaddis
Angela Garbes
Adriana Garcia
Daniel García Ordaz
Meg Gardiner
Liz Garton-Scanlon
Xavier Garza
Amy Gentry
Casey Gerald
Alex Gino
Xelena González
Maurene Goo
Don Graham
Felicia Graham
Reyna Grande
David Grann
Claudia Guerra
Jasmine Guillory
Nathan Hale
Eduardo Halfon
Louisa Hall
Heather Havrilesky
Julia Heaberlin
Bethany Hegedus
J.R. Helton
Rachel Heng
Lauren Hilgers
Sy Hoahwah
Joe Holley
K. A. Holt
Jessica Hopper
Debra Jo Immergut
Shelley Jackson
Leslie Jamison
Caleb Johnson
Chelsey Johnson
Lacy M. Johnson
Varian Johnson
Tayari Jones
Sophie Jordan
Julie Kagawa
Charles J. Katz Jr.
Jack Kaulfus
Sarah Kay
Anne Keene
Laurie Keller
Scott Kelly
Porochista Khakpour
Hena Khan
Kazu Kibuishi
Brendan Kiely
Bill Kilday
Crystal Hana Kim
Patti Kim
Jamil Kochai
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
R.O. Kwon
Catherine Lacey
Rickey Laurentiis
Shayla Lawson
Kiese Laymon
Minh Lê
Edward Lee
Mackenzi Lee
Claire Legrand
Mark Leibovich
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Sanford Levinson
Marjorie Herrera Lewis
Lillian Li
Julia London
Diana Lopez
Rafael López
James Luna
Jason Lutes
Ling Ma
Beth Macy
James Magnuson
Terese Mailhot
Rebecca Makkai
Stephen Markley
Juana Martinez-Neal
Cathy Maxwell
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Cary McClelland
Sarah McCoy
Elizabeth McCracken
Megan McDonald
Seamus McGraw
Wyatt McSpadden
Bryan Mealer
Meg Medina
Daniel Mendelsohn
Jasminne Méndez
Sandhya Menon
Stefan Merrill Block
Bill Minutaglio
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Sarah Mlynowski
Sy Montgomery
Wayétu Moore
Yuyi Morales
Barbara Morgan
Walter Mosley
Judge Harriet Murphy
Dessa
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Celeste Ng
Michael Noll
Meaghan O’Connell
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Daniel José Older
Priscilla Oliveras
Tommy Orange
Susan Orlean
K. E. Ormsbee
Rae Paris
Miriam Parker
Dustin Parsons
Daniel Peña
Daria Peoples-Riley
Celia C. Pérez
Maya Perez
Camille Perri
Martin Philip
Tommy Pico
Turk Pipkin
Nicole Ponseca
Natalie Pope Boyce
Mary Pope Osborne
Brontez Purnell
Alissa Quart
Jamie Quatro
Donald Quist
Shobha Rao
Cydney Rax
Brendan Reichs
Jan Reid
Anastacia Renee
Cecile Richards
Ransom Riggs
Ken Roberts
Christian Robinson
Phoebe Robinson
Typewriter Rodeo
Vanessa Roeder
Erika L. Sánchez
Andrew Sansom
Dan Santat
Eli Saslow