He currently teaches creative writing at Pomona College in California. Témoris Grecko was a producer, researcher, and script writer for two feature documentaries: Watching Them Die: The Mexican Army and the 43 Disappeared (2015) and The Truth Shall Not Be Killed (2018). Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he now lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda; their golden retriever, Elsa; and the enduring spirits of their goldens Trixie and Anna. He has been featured in Houston Public Media’s National Poetry Month series “Voices and Verses” and Poetry House’s “Showcase Selects” series, as well as mentions in Latino Book Review and Electric Literature. Lawson was born in Rochester, Minnesota, raised in Lexington, Kentucky, studied architecture in Italy and spent a few years as a Dutch housewife—milkmaid braids and all. Phoebe Fox has been a contributor and regular columnist for a number of national, regional, and local publications, including the Huffington Post, Elite Daily, and She Knows. This Is My America is her debut novel. 116 talking about this. His art asks us to perceive our fellows with clarity and without bigotry. Amanda’s work has been optioned for film and television and translated into fifteen languages. While visiting the Kerlan Collection, Kelly had the privilege of studying the dialogue techniques of the great Walter Dean Myers. Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award, the Indies Choice for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and other honors. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School and currently resides in San Francisco with her partner and two daughters. Kim lives in Oregon with her husband and two kids. He lives with his family in Los Angeles. She lives in Austin, Texas, and Ouray, Colorado. Edward Ball’s books include The Inventor and the Tycoon, about the birth of moving pictures in California, and Slaves in the Family, an account of his family’s history as slaveholders in South Carolina, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Herbert graduated from high school at age sixteen, and then attended UC Berkeley, where he earned a BA in sociology. He has appeared on the Daily Show, PBS Newshour, Democracy NOW!, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more national and local radio and television programs. David Biespiel is a contributing writer at the New Republic, the New Yorker, Poetry, Politico, the Rumpus, and Slate. He's spent the... JAMES WARD LEE. Diaz is Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. Chris Barton is the author of many picture books including the bestseller Shark vs. Best of the 2018 Texas Book Festival: An Observer Staff Guide Six can’t-miss author events hand-picked by our writers. His pieces have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and on NPR. Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer, screenwriter, and essayist living in southern California. Kim Johnson has held leadership positions in social justice organizations as a teen. Gris is currently commissioned to write the biography of acclaimed LA artist Fabian Debora. Wimberley Book Festival held annually in Wimberley Texas is Produced by DEAR Texas, Inc, sponsored by Texas Authors, Inc. Creativity Innovation Originality Imagination . Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways; I See You; and So Many Smarts! I’ll be speaking at the Texas Book Festival 23 Oct. The San Antonio Book Festival unites readers and writers in a celebration of ideas, books, libraries, and literary culture. (Aunt Lute 2017), an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants that won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. His work has also been published in multiple anthologies, plus venues such as the New York Times School Library Journal, Strange Horizons, English Journal, Rattle, Translation Review, and the Journal of Children’s Literature. The festival was established by Laura Bush and Mary Margaret Farabee in 1995 in order to benefit the state's public library system, to honor Texas authors, and to promote the pleasure of reading. His paintings have been on book covers, in national art exhibits, private collections, and community institutions. H. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Gris Muñoz is a frontera poet and storyteller. Gabi gained national attention with her article and video for Cosmopolitan, “I Went on 30 Dates In 3 Days.” The video was featured by Daily Mail, and then she appeared on Access Hollywood, Inside Edition, Doctors, 97.1 AMP Radio, and Daily Mail TV. He’s also made Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Horror Novels, and is the guy who wrote Mongrels, The Only Good Indians, and Night of the Mannequins. He’s also been on the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange, inside a plutonium plant at Los Alamos, behind the scenes at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, and out on an Atlas-E rocket launchpad. Learn More → Festival Day. She has a PhD in literature from the University of Texas and served as a Mellon Writing Fellow and Interim Writing Center Director at Southwestern University. David Bowles is a Mexican American author from South Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. Gabi’s other pilot “Ex-Communication” was a finalist in NYTVF. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the Vancouver Observer and Prairie Fire magazine. In 2018, David founded Majordomo Media and launched The Dave Chang Show podcast. The Old Truck from Norton Young Readers is their author-illustrator debut. Book authors from all genres will be in attendance. Jarrett Pumphrey is a children’s book author and illustrator. It explores racial injustice against innocent Black men who are criminally sentenced, and the families left behind to pick up the pieces. It’s that time of year — time for the Texas Book Festival to began teasing us with a short-list of which writers will be coming to Austin Oct. 26-27. Coming from a family of storytellers, he has written and performed multiple one-person stage shows, including I Am a Teacher, which toured for almost twenty years. He is an American Short Fiction, Glimmer Train, and Bellingham Review contest finalist. Kimberly A. Hamlin is an award-winning historian, author, and professor specializing in the history of women, gender, and sex in the United States. She has earned many honors, including being named one of America’s most Outstanding Young Lawyers by the American Bar Association. Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey is a married man, a father of three children, and a loyal son and brother. Keynote: She Persisted with Chelsea Clinton Friday, March 5 at 9:30 AM. He received the Father Rahm Segundo Barrio Person of the Year Award 2016, served on the TCA Visual Arts Advisory Panel from 1991 to 1992, was awarded a Mid-America Arts Alliance Fellowship in 1994, and juried a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship’s Advisory Panel in 1999. Juli Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer based in San Francisco. She is currently in the process of applying for her daughters to join them in the United States. She’s the author of one short story collection, a novel, and three children’s picture books. Powers is a leading global voice on human rights and international affairs, as she served four years as President Barack Obama’s human rights advisor and eventually served in his Cabinet. He has devoted his life to selling natural and organic foods and building a better business model. He holds a BA from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her family. Gaspar’s dramatic portraits range from works on paper of writer Rudolfo Anaya and artists Luis Jimenez and John Valadez, to twenty-four-foot-high illustrations for Rudolfo Anaya’s Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez. In 2014, she opened Mosquito Supper Club, where she serves family-style meals to small groups of guests who reserve a place at her table months in advance. Recipient of two Oregon Book Awards, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian Award. Her new book, American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland, follows her journey through seven red agricultural states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters, and examines the changing role of food, God, science, and race in society. She has been a relationship columnist; a movie, theater, and book reviewer; and a radio personality. In 2014 and 2016, TheRoot.com named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans in their annual The Root 100 list. Inspiring Texans of all ages to love reading. Educator Day. The Festival is held on the grounds of the Texas Capitol each fall and features more than 250 renowned authors, panels, book signings, cooking demonstrations, and children's activities. Nick Hornby is the author of several internationally bestselling novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as several works of nonfiction, including Fever Pitch, Songbook, and Ten Years in the Tub. He lives in Los Angeles. She graduated from Durham University and is the author of YA contemporaries Solitaire, Radio Silence, and I Was Born for This. TBF leaders today announced a list of 15 authors including humorist John Hodgman; essayist Kristen Arnett; bestselling Young Adult author Hafsah Faizal; and Newbery Medalist, poet, […] The Love Sugar Magic series are her first books. Shout shares Anderson’s personal reflections and calls to action denouncing our society’s failures, and it is also a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #metoo and #timesup. Her work has been published in the Rumpus and Bitch Media among others, and she has most recently been featured by Raising Mothers, Chicana Motherwork, and the Tamarindo podcast. She is the author of the bilingual poetry and short story collection, Coatlicue Girl. Agustina Bazterrica is an Argentinian novelist and short-story writer. Get all your reading done with our friends at BookPeople. Rebekah Manley holds her Master of Fine Arts in Children’s Literature from Hollins University and feels like she’s earned her MFA in dating. The Texas Book Festival is an annual free book fair held every fall in Austin, Texas. Join us for the 24th annual Texas Book Festival on October 26-27, and help us inspire all Texans to love reading! While living there, she worked at some of the top Napa Valley vineyards and restaurants, and this is where she honed her self-taught culinary skills to a professional level. North Texas Teen Book Festival March 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Irving, Texas London Book Fair Monday, March 9, 2020 to Wednesday, March 11, 2020 – London, United Kingdom AWP Conference Wednesday, March 3, 2021 to Saturday, March 6, 2021 – Kansas City, Missouri Cinco Puntos—a publisher of nonfiction, fiction, poetry and children’s literature—is recognized for bringing the multicultural literatures of the American Southwest, the US/Mexico border region and Mexico to a national audience. She is recipient of two recent “Lifetime Achievement Awards” from the Texas Institute of Letters and the National Book Critics Circle (Ivan Sandrof Award.) He has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and an MFA in fiction and screenwriting from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. Her debut collection, F*ckface and Other Stories, was released by Henry Holt in 2020. Jenny Elder Moke writes young-adult fiction in an attempt to recapture the shining infinity of youth. Shepherd will present in the Central Market Cooking Tent. Trung Le Nguyen, also known as Trungles, is a Vietnamese American comic book artist and storyteller from Minnesota. Jodi Picoult is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of twenty-four novels, including A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister’s Keeper. Aria is her first novel. She lives in Southern California. In 2017, David was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science, nature, and human biology for almost three decades. TV personality, James Beard Award-winning chef, and cookbook author Aarón Sánchez will present his memoir, Where I Come From: Life Lessons From a Latino Chef, which offers an intimate look into the chaotic and unorthodox life of a professional chef and television personality. His search for the full story behind the news has led him to history; he is the author of Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War; Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, and Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab. Elizabeth Acevedo is the author of With the Fire on High and The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award. She lives in Paw Paw, West Virginia. Tom Philpott has been the food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones since 2011. When she is not writing, she’s gathering story ideas from her daily adventures with her two irredeemable rapscallions and honing her ninja skills as a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He is fond of fairy tales, kids’ cartoons, and rom-coms of all stripes. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think, Why Didn't We Riot? He inspired art students at El Paso’s Bowie High School for thirty-three years, until his retirement in 2002. Kacen has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the New School’s writing for children program. As one of the largest literary festivals in the country, we are proud to showcase both national and Texas authors, including debut and bestselling writers, renowned chefs, beloved children’s illustrators and authors, and more. Erin Brockovich is the president of Brockovich Research & Consulting and the founder of the Erin Brockovich Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to educate and empower communities in their fight for clean water. She received her MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in San Francisco. Their second collaboration is Birdie’s Beauty Parlor. Among the awards he has received are a Pantalla De Cristal for Best Research In Documentary Film (Mexico, 2016), a Eurostars Award for Travel Narrative (Barcelona, 2008) and a LASA Award for Merit in Film (New York, 2016). She is the author of Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape and has written extensively on the intersection of sports and violence off the field. Former US Ambassador to the United Nations and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power will present her most recent work, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir, which traces Power’s distinct American journey from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room. Chris Harris is the New York Times bestselling author of I’m Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups, illustrated by Lane Smith. Wimberley Book Festival held annually in Wimberley Texas is Produced by DEAR Texas, Inc, sponsored by Texas Authors, Inc. He has published work with REMEZCLA, VICE.com, Latino USA, the Believer, the Nib, Penguin Random House, Algonquin Books, Holt/Macmillan, and Cinco Puntos Press. Delgado’s artworks reflect the United States and Mexican border life and speak to the working class of the barrios. She currently lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two excellent dogs. 1023 Springdale Road, Bldg. In 2019, McConaughey became a professor of practice at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as Minister of Culture for the University of Texas and the City of Austin. He attended the University of Texas at El Paso, where he received several honorary awards and a BFA. She is most motivated to create work that promotes inclusiveness, inspires happiness and curiosity, and helps kids from all different backgrounds feel special. Pre-Register for a Chance to Win. (Sorry.) On August 28, the Texas Book Festival (TBF) announced a 2019 lineup filled with nationally renowned authors, including Sarah M. Broom, Aarón Sánchez, Ibram X. Kendi, Jami Attenberg, Tim O’Brien, Samantha Power, Chris Ware, Chris Shepherd, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jaquira Díaz, and more. 1023 Springdale Road, Bldg. Zeke is currently digging into family history to uncover stories for future books. A former Fulbright fellow, he has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and an Art for Justice fellowship. She’s also the author of the Breakup Doctor series (The Breakup Doctor, Bedside Manners, Heart Conditions, Out of Practice), and—as Tiffany Yates Martin—of Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide for Revising Your Writing. Buy books by 2020 Virtual Texas Book Festival authors! His books include the memoirs An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017), the internationally bestselling Holocaust family saga The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006), a translation of the Modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, and three collections of essays, most recently Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones (2019). Kevin’s solo work has garnered wide critical acclaim; for example, Climbing Olympus was voted the best paperback SF novel of 1995 by Locus Magazine, Resurrection, Inc., was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, and his novel Blindfold was a 1996 preliminary Nebula nominee. It is considered one of the major book festivals in the States. He lives in North Carolina and Austin, Texas. Acevedo lives with her partner in Washington, DC. She lives in Austin, Texas, and is fueled by swimming, queso, and good conversation. When she’s not writing, you can find her listening to Ella Fitzgerald on loop, attending the theater, watching scary movies, and spending time with her kids. Tehlor Kay Mejia is an Oregon native and the author of the YA novels We Set the Dark on Fire and We Unleash the Merciless Storm and the middle-grade novel Paola Santiago and the Drowned Palace. Thank you to all of our sponsors and everyone who virtually attended our 2020 South Texas Book Festival! Frantz is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and hosts his own radio show called Chris Frantz the Talking Head on WPKN. Jonathan Lethem is the bestselling author of eleven novels, including The Feral Detective, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s now a college administrator who maintains civic engagement throughout the community while also mentoring Black student activists and leaders. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her first bookstore opened in Monrovia, Liberia in 2015. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of the multiple award-winning Cenzontle. Esteban is a queer Chicano (Mexican-American) who lives in central California with his husband, Billy, and three dogs, Nomi, Rigby, and Jepsen. Jardine Libaire is a novelist (novels include Here Kitty Kitty and White Fur) and screenwriter (just released a film she co-wrote called Endings, Beginnings with director Drake Doremus, starring Shailene Woodley, whose character has just given up alcohol). Dr. Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. Alice Oseman was born in 1994 in Kent, England. Her most recent book Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener tells the fascinating story of the “fallen woman” who reinvented herself and became “the most potent factor” in congressional passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the highest-ranking woman in federal government. Fast-forward a few years, and Kelly was fortunate enough to meet Myers at a literary event in Florida. Book Review: Texas Book Festival Authors For the Comanche history novice, this is an entertaining and easy-to-read starting point, but not a very intellectually strenuous one … Meena Harris is the founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign and most recently was the Head of Strategy & Leadership at Uber, where she led brand transformation initiatives focused on corporate citizenship, customer loyalty, and employee engagement. She attended Vanderbilt University, earning a BA in art history and studying with Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. Award-winning author of The Things They Carried and former reporter for the Washington Post, Tim O’Brien will present his most recent work, Dad’s Maybe Book, in which he shares wisdom from a life of letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons. Gabi has also hosted Street Smarts for BrotherHQ’s and wrote and hosted over 400 episodes of the Elite Daily Show for Verizon’s go90. The book explores the aftermath of the mass shooting at the Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2017. He earned a BA in art from the University of Texas–El Paso in 1970 and an MA in metals from New Mexico State University in 1985. After graduating from Loyola University in New Orleans, she worked as an adult literacy teacher until she evacuated to Northern California during Hurricane Katrina. Authors + You = Endless Stories. 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