Fiction
Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning, a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Association of Small Bombs, which was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award, won the 2017 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s […]
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of seven books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Bowlaway, and the forthcoming collection of short stories The Souvenir Museum. She’s received grants and […]
Christian McKay Heidicker reads and writes and drinks tea. His cat, Lucifer Morningstar, keeps the demons out of his apartment, while his other cat, Rorschach, keeps dragging them back in. Christian is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning Scary Stories for Young Foxes and its companion SSFYF: The City, as […]
Edward Carey is a writer and illustrator, as well as the author of the novels Observatory Mansions and Alva and Irva: the Twins Who Saved a City, and of the YA Iremonger Trilogy, which have all been translated into many different languages and all of which he illustrated. His novel […]
Kevin Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Nothing to See Here and The Family Fang, as well as Perfect Little World, and two collections, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine. He lives […]
Martine Leavitt has published ten novels for young adults, most recently Calvin, which won the Governor General’s Award of Canada. My Book of Life by Angel was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year. Other […]
Emily Ruskovich grew up on Hoodoo Mountain in the Idaho Panhandle. She is the author of the novel IDAHO, which won the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Idaho Book Award. She is also the recipient of an O. Henry Award for her short […]
Paul Harding is the author of two novels, Tinkers, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Enon. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and PEN America. He was a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, MA, […]
Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize. It was a finalist for the National Book award, for the Kirkus Prize, and is to be translated into over twenty- four languages. His short stories, Found Wanting, and The Englishman, were published in […]
Kristen Chandler is the author of Thief of Happy Endings and the award-winning Girls Don’t Fly and Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me. She was nominated for the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award. She thrives on making readers laugh, cry, and worry about what will happen next, so […]
Yamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is a fútbol-obsessed Argentine-American who loves meteor showers, summer, astrology, and pizza. She lives in Utah with her Puerto Rican husband and their five kids, two adorable dogs, and one majestic cat. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she’s also a graduate of Voices of […]