2009 Specially Featured Guest Authors
Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is a fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy and Middle East Analyst for CBS News. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Aslan’s book the New York Times Bestselling, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, has been translated into thirteen languages, short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award in the UK, and nominated for a PEN USA award for research Non-Fiction.
Panel: Music, Islam & The Middle East
Stage: People, Politics, & Places Pavilion (Signing at Levantine Center Booth)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Recent Titles: How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
Bob Barker
Bob Barker retired from CBS’ The Price Is Right in June, 2007, after 35 years as the show’s host. The series has been one of the highest rated daytime shows during this entire period. He has written an autobiographical book titled Priceless Memories that landed on the New York Times bestseller list within the first two weeks of its distribution. In the book, Bob opens up about his personal life, sharing a lifetime of fond memories.
Panel: Bob Barker in Conversation
Stage: That’s Entertainment Pavilion (Signing at Book Soup Booth)
Time: 2:15-3:00pm
Recent Titles: Priceless Memories
Amber Benson
Amber Benson co-wrote and directed the animated web-series, Ghosts of Albion, (with Christopher Golden) for the BBC. Her first solo novel, Death’s Daughter, will be published by Penguin in 2009 with a children’s book for Simon and Schuster called, The New Newbridge Academy, to follow later in 2010. As an actress, Benson spent three seasons as Tara Maclay on the cult show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She has also written, produced, and directed three feature films, including her latest, Drones, which she co-directed with Adam Busch and will be released later this year.
Panel: Zombies & Other Creatures of the Night
Stage: The Good Reads Pavilion (Signing at Dark Delicacies Booth)
Time: 1:45-2:45pm
Recent Titles: Death’s Daughter
Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block, winner of the prestigious Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the author of many acclaimed and bestselling books, including Weetzie Bat, Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books, Necklace of Kisses, and the collection of stories Blood Roses. Her work is published around the world.
Panel: Zombies & Other Creatures of the Night
Stage: The Good Reads Pavilion (Signing at Dark Delicacies Booth)
Time: 1:45-2:45pm
Recent Titles: Pretty Dead
Malcolm Boyd
Malcolm Boyd is the author of 32 books including the international bestseller Are You Running with Me, Jesus? and the gay classic Take Off the Masks. In his youth he worked in Hollywood as president of the Television Producers Association. Ordained an Episcopal priest in 1951, he worked in the civil rights and antiwar movements with Martin Luther King, Jr. He lives in Silver Lake with his partner of 25 years Mark Thompson.
Panel: Three On A Match: An Intergenerational Dialogue with Gay Literary Icons
Stage: The Good Reads Pavilion (Signing at Skylight Books Booth)
Time: 1:00-1:45pm
Recent Titles: Are You Running with Me, Jesus?
Steve Breen
Steve Breen is the 2009 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and the children’s book author and illustrator of the popular books Violet the Pilot and Stick. Steve was influenced by cartoonists such as Jeff MacNelly, Paul Conrad, Pat Oliphant and Don Wright. He became the full-time editorial cartoonist at The San Diego Union-Tribune in 1996. In April 1998, Breen won his first Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
Panel: Storytime Steve
Stage: Kids’ Stage (Followed by Book Signing)
Time:12:20-1:20pm
Recent Titles: Stick, Violet the Pilot
Jan Burke
Jan Burke is a critically acclaimed and national bestselling author of novels and short stories, and winner of the Edgar® Award for Best Novel. She writes the popular mystery series, featuring Southern California newspaper reporter Irene Kelly. She is also the author of Flight, featuring Irene’s husband, homicide detective Frank Harriman; Nine, a standalone thriller; and a collection of her short stories, entitled Eighteen. She served as the original editor of Sisters in Crime’s guide to getting published, Breaking And Entering.
Panel: Sisters in Crime: How Far Have We Come?
Stage: Mystery and Suspense Pavilion (Signing at Mystery Ink Booth)
Time: 2:15-3:15pm
Recent Titles: The Messenger
Carol Channing
Since her Broadway debut in Blitzstein’s No For An Answer and a Time Magazine cover story, which hailed her performance as Lorelei in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Carol Channing has been a star of international acclaim. Her Broadway appearances include some of the most memorable characters in theatrical history, winning three Tony Awards® including one for her legendary portrayal of Dolly Levi in Jerry Herman’s Hello, Dolly!
Panel: Carol Channing in Conversation with Bruce Vilanch
Stage: That’s Entertainment Pavilion (Signing at Barnes and Noble Booth)
Time: 1:30-2:15pm
Recent Titles: Just Lucky I Guess
K.C. Cole
K.C. Cole is the author of Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up—a memoir/biography of her late mentor, the “uncle” of the atomic bomb and founder of San Francisco’s world-renowned “museum of awareness,” the Exploratorium. Cole likes to play with the natural connections between science, art, politics, whatnot, and hosts an irregular series of events exploring these intersections at Santa Monica Art Studios known as Categorically Not!
Panel: Eyeballing the Universe: Big & Small
Stage: The Open Book Pavilion (Signing at Book Soup Booth)
Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Recent Titles: Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up
Maria Amparo Escandón
Born in Mexico City, María Amparo Escandón is a best-selling bilingual novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film producer. Her award-winning work has been recognized for addressing bicultural themes such as the immigration experience of Mexicans in the United States. Her innovative style places her among the top contemporary Latin American female writers. Her work has been translated into over 21 languages and is currently read in more than 85 countries.
Panel: Adapting & Optioning: The Road from Book to Film
Stage: That’s Entertainment Pavilion (Signing at Book Soup Booth)
Time: 10:45-11:45am
Recent Titles: Esparanza’s Book of Saints” and “Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Company
Seth Grahame-Smith
Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which debuted at #3 on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 18 languages. Seth is a film and television writer/producer, semi-frequent political blogger, and the co-Creator/Executive Producer of the new MTV comedy series, Hard Times. His next book, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will be out in hardcover this spring.
Panel: Zombies & Other Creatures of the Night
Stage: The Good Reads Pavilion (Signing at Dark Delicacies Booth)
Time: 1:45-2:45pm
Recent Titles: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Dr. Kevin Grazier
Dr. Kevin R. Grazier was Science Advisor for the series Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, and Virtuality as well as the animated series The Zula Patrol. He co-authored the book Science of Battlestar Galactica, and served as author/editor for two books in the BenBella SmartPop series: The Science of Dune, and the Science of Michael Crichton. Kevin received his Ph.D. in planetary physics from UCLA, and is a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
Panel: Eyeballing the Universe: Big & Small
Stage: The Open Book Pavilion (Signing at Book Soup Booth)
Time: 2:00-3:30pm
Recent Titles: TBA
Naomi Hirahara
Naomi Hirahara, is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, which features a Japanese American gardener and atomic-bomb survivor. Her short stories are featured in Los Angeles Noir, A Hell of a Woman, and The Darker Mask, while her middle-grade book, 1001 Cranes, was released as a Yearling trade paperback in June of this year.
Panel: Sisters in Crime: How Far Have We Come
Stage: Mystery and Suspense Pavilion (Signing at Mystery Ink Booth)
Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Recent Titles: Summer of the Big Bachi, Gasa-Gasa Girl, Snakeskin Shamisen
Edward Humes
A journalist and author of ten nonfiction books, Edward Humes has received the Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper coverage of the military and a PEN Center USA Award for his book, No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year In the Life of Juvenile Court.
Panel: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: Facets of Environmentalism
Stage: The Open Book Pavilion (Signing at Barnes and Noble Booth)
Time: 12:00-12:55pm
Recent Titles: Eco Barons
Gregg Hurwitz
Gregg Hurwitz is the author of Trust No One which was published by St. Martin’s Press in June to critical acclaim. He is also the internationally bestselling author of eight novels, his last, The Crime Writer, was an instant bestseller and finalist for best novel by the ITW and for the Ian Fleming Dagger. His novels have been chosen as Book Sense Picks, and translated into 15 languages.
Panel: Wonderful Words & Worlds: New Fiction From Great Writers
Stage: Fiction Pavilion (Signing at Book Events & Author Unlimited Booth)
Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Recent Titles: Trust No One
Charlie Huston
Charlie Huston is the author of the Henry Thompson trilogy, the Joe Pitt casebooks, and the bestsellers The Shotgun Rule and The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.
Panel: Ghosts, Ghouls & Goblins: Exploring the Supernatural in Mystery Fiction
Stage: Fiction Pavilion (Signing at Book Events & Authors Unlimited Booth)
Time: 12:00-12:55pm
Recent Titles: The Shotgun Rule, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
Eloise Klein Kealy
Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry, including Artemis in Echo Park, which was nominated for the Lambda Book Award and released as a spoken-word recording. Healy is the co-founder of ECO-ARTS, an ecotourism/arts venture, and her imprint with Red Hen Press, Arktoi Books, specializes in publishing the work of lesbian authors.
Panel: The Future of Publishing
Stage: The Fact, Fiction & Future Pavilion (Signing at Skylight Books Booth)
Time: 3:15-4:15pm
Recent Titles: The Islands Project, Ordinary Wisdom, Passing
Dani Klein Modisett
Dani Klein Modisett is the author/editor of “Afterbirth…stories you won’t read in a parenting magazine” (St. Martin’s Press). She is also the producer/director of the live show that runs in Los Angeles, NYC, and has recently appeared in San Francisco and Boston. Her personal essays, written with her signature self-deprecating and outsider point of view as the relatively new parent of two boys, ages 2 and 6, have made her quite popular with parents across the country.
Panel: The Funny Girls: Whimsical Wisdom from Wonderful Women
Stage: Good Reads Pavilion and Signing at Libros Revolution
Time: 10:45-11:45am
Recent Titles: Afterbirth
Harley Jane Kozak
Harley Jane Kozak, a sometimes actress, lives with her family in California’s Conejo Valley. Her debut novel, Dating Dead Men, won the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. Its sequel was Dating is Murder, followed by Dead Ex and A Date You Can’t Refuse. Her short prose has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Soap Opera Digest, The Sun, The Santa Monica Review, and the anthologies Mystery Muses, This is Chick Lit and A Hell Of A Woman.
Panel: Sisters in Crime: How Far Have We Come?
Stage: Mystery & Suspense Pavilion (Signing at Mystery Ink Booth)
Time: 2:15-3:15pm
Recent Titles: A Date You Can’t Refuse
Carol Leifer
Carol Leifer is an accomplished stand-up comedian and an Emmy-winning writer and producer for such television shows as Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live and The Academy Awards. Carol’s first book, When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win, is a laugh-out-loud look at life, love and the aging process.
Panel: The Funny Girls: Whimsical Wisdom from Wonderful Women
Stage: The Good Reads Pavilion (Signing at Book Soup Booth)
Time: 2:45-3:45pm
Recent Titles: When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win
Josefina López
Josefina López is best known for authoring the play and coauthoring the film Real Women Have Curves. Although Real Women Have Curves is Josefina López’s most recognized work, it is only one of many literary works she has created since she began her writing career, at seventeen.
Panel: Chicas, Chicanas & Latinas: Writers in Action
Stage: People, Places & Politics (Signing at Libreria Martinez Booth)
Time: 1:00-1:55pm
Recent Titles: Hungry Woman in Paris
Nicholas Meyer
Nicholas Meyer is a noted author, screenwriter and director. In addition to the Star Trek films, his many credits include an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of The Seven Per-Cent Solution, writing and directing the classic SF thriller Time After Time and directing The Day After, the controversial film about nuclear war that became the most watched movie ever televised. Most recently, he adapted Philip Roth’s novella The Dying Animal for the screen as Elegy.
Panel: Nicholas Meyer (“Star Trek”) in Conversation with Frank Spotnitz (“X-Files”)
Stage: That’s Entertainment Pavilion (Signing at Dark Delicacies Booth)
Time: 12:45-1:30pm
Recent Titles: The View From The Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and A Life in Hollywood
Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola is best known as the award-winning creator/writer/artist of Hellboy. He was also visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on both Hellboy and Hellboy 2:The Golden Army. Most recently he was co-author (with Christopher Golden) of the novel Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire.
Panel: Dream on Demand: Vision Vs. Market Place
Stage: Comics, Sci-fi & Beyond Pavilion (Signing at The Comic Bug Booth)
Time: 11:00-12:00pm
Recent Titles: Hellboy
Ted Nichelson
Ted Nichelson is a writer, musician, business entrepreneur, and pop-culture historian. He is an avid collector of Brady Bunch memorabilia, and is the author of the award winning website Complete Guide to the Brady Bunch Hour and designed the Official Geri Reischl Website. These interests were sparked by his friendship with Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady.
Panel: Love to Love You Bradys: A Conversation with Susan Olsen (“Cindy Brady”)
Stage: People, Places & Politics Pavilion (Signing at Barnes & Noble Booth)
Time: 11:15-12:00pm
Recent Titles: Love to Love You Bradys
Norman Ollestad
Norman Ollestad’s memoir, Crazy for the Storm, is set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, recalls Ollestad’s childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him – and also taught him to overcome the indomitable.
Panel: Digging Deep: Revealing, Feeling & Healing in Memoir Writing
Stage: The Fact, Fiction & Future Pavilion (Signing at Skylight Books Booth)
Time: 2:00-3:15pm
Recent Titles: Crazy for the Storm
Bryan Lee O’Malley
Bryan Lee O’Malley is a cartoonist and the creator of the popular Scott Pilgrim series. He has written and drawn five volumes, with the sixth and final volume set to debut in 2010. He has won numerous awards, including Harvey, Shuster and Doug Wright Awards, and been nominated for the Eisner Award and the National Cartoonists Society “Reuben” Award. The Scott Pilgrim series is also being adapted to a feature film from Universal Pictures (by writer/director Edgar Wright), and a video game from Ubisoft Montreal.
Panel: Scott Pilgrim! Bryan Lee O’Malley in Conversation with Joshua Dysart
Stage: Comics, Sci Fi & Beyond (Signing at The Comic Bug Booth)
Time: 1:00-1:45pm
Recent Titles: Scott Pilgrim Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe
Susan Olsen
Susan Olsen is internationally recognized for her role as Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch. Olsen has been a favorite guest on all the major talk shows including CNN’s Larry King Live and The Howard Stern Show. The huge response led to her own daily radio show following Stern on KLSX-radio in Los Angeles with Ken Ober. In the middle of all this, Olsen created and was executive producer for The Brady Bunch Home Movies, a CBS prime time special.
Panel: Love to Love You Bradys: A Conversation with Susan Olsen (“Cindy Brady”)
Stage: People, Places & Politics Pavilion (Signing at Barnes & Noble Booth)
Time: 11:15-12:00pm
Recent Titles: Love to Love You Bradys
Ken Page
Ken Page starred in the original Broadway casts of Ain’t Misbehavin’, Cats, and Guys and Dolls. He has appeared in theatrical productions at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane and many other legendary venues. He can also be seen in the motion pictures Dreamgirls (Max Washington), Torch Song Trilogy (Murray) and as the voice of the classic character Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Panel: Storytime Steve
Stage: The Kids’ Stage (Also appearing in the Ghost Story Telling Tent)
Time: 12:20pm (Kids’ Stage) and 2:00pm (Ghost Story Telling Tent)
Kwei Quartey
Kwei Quartey was born in Ghana and raised by an African American mother and a Ghanaian father, both of whom were university lecturers. Kwei Quartey now lives in Pasadena, California. He writes early in the morning before setting out to work at HealthCare Partners, where he runs a wound care clinic and is the lead physician at an urgent care center. Dr. Quartey finds many parallels between writing mysteries and being a doctor.
Panel: It’s a Small World: Fiction From Faraway Places
Stage: Fiction Pavilion (Signing at Book Events and Authors Unlimited Booth)
Time: 1:15-2:15pm
Recent Titles: Wife of the Gods
Nina Revoyr
Nina Revoyr is the author of The Necessary Hunger, Southland, and The Age of Dreaming. Los Angeles Magazine wrote that “Revoyr … is fast becoming one of the city’s finest chroniclers and myth-makers.” Southland was a BookSense 76 pick, won the Lambda Literary Award, and was one of the Los Angeles Times’ “Best Books of 2003.” The Age of Dreaming was a finalist for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Panel: Words Behind Bars: Writing Programs in Prisons and Other Places
Stage: People, Places and Politics Pavilion (Signing at Libreria Martinez Booth)
Time: 12:00-12:55pm
Recent Titles: The Age of Dreaming
Richard Schickel
Richard Schickel is a film critic, documentary film maker and movie historian. His recently completed reconstruction of Samuel Fuller’s classic war film, The Big One, was named one of the year’s Ten Best Films by the New York Times. He has been reviewing movies for Time since 1972 and writes a monthly column, Film on Paper, for the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Panel: Criticism: Criticism: It’s All in the Family with Richard & Erika Schickel
Stage: The Open Book Pavilion (Signing at Barnes & Noble Booth)
Time: 1:00-1:45pm
Recent Titles: Elia Kazan
Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman is the author of 14 books. Sarah has been active in a number of foundational movements for social change including Abortion Rights, AIDS Activism, and the Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movements. She is co-founder with Jim Hubbard of both: MIX:NY LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the ACT UP Oral History Project.
Panel: Queeractors – Creating Stories and Characters in New LGBT Fiction
Stage: The Good Reads Pavilion (Signing at Skylight Books Booth)
Time: 3:45-4:45pm
Recent Titles: “The Mere Future” and “Ties That Bind”
Danzy Senna
Danzy Senna is the author of two novels and a memoir. Her debut novel, Caucasia, was the LA Times Book of The Year and became an instant national bestseller. Her second novel, Symptomatic, a literary thriller, examined the topic of friendship and obsession through the eyes of a biracial protagonist. Her recently published memoir is Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History.
Panel: Digging Deep: Revealing, Feeling & Healing in Memoir Writing
Stage: The Fact, Fiction & Future Pavilion (Signing at Skylight Books Booth)
Time: 2:00-3:15pm
Recent Titles: Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History
Ken Seeley
Ken Seeley has remained involved, professionally and personally, in recovery since 1989. Ken saves lives every day as the founder and executive director of Intervention911. His organization is one of the most prominent and successful private intervention services in the country. Currently, Ken is one of the on-camera interventionists featured on the groundbreaking A&E television series Intervention and has recently penned a book called Face it and Fix it.
Panel: Facing It and Fixing It: Talking Addiction and Recovery with Nationally Known Interventionists
Stage: The Good Reads Pavilion (Signing at Book Soup Booth)
Time: 12:00-12:55pm
Recent Titles: Face it and Fix it
Jerry Stahl
Jerry Stahl’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared everywhere from The Village Voice to Hustler, from Esquire and Details to Playboy and The New York Times, among other places. He has also written extensively for television and film, including the highest rated episodes of CSI. His first book, the memoir, Permanent Midnight, was made into a film starring Ben Stiller and Maria Bello. He has also published three novels including his most recent book Pain Killers (William Morrow) and I, Fatty, a faux-memoir of silent film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, which has been optioned by Johnny Depp.
Panel: Wonderful Words & Worlds: New Fiction From Great Writers
Stage: Fiction Pavilion (Signing at Book Events & Authors Unlimited Booth)
Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Amber Tamblyn
Amber Tamblyn has been nominated for an Emmy, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award for her work in television and film. Her first book, Free Stallion: Poems, won a Borders Books Choice Award for Breakout Writing, and her new poetry collection, Bang Ditto, was just published by Manic D Press. Her writing has been published in New York Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Interview, and Venice magazine among other publications.
Panel: Poetry Salon
Stage: The Salon (Signing at Manic D Press Booth)
Time: 10:45-11:45am
Recent Titles: Bang Ditto
Trisha R. Thomas
Trish Thomas is the author of Nappily Faithful, Nappily Married, Roadrunner, Would I Lie To You and the top selling Nappily Ever After, which was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Her debut novel was optioned by Halle Berry and Universal Pictures for adaptation to film.
Panel: Adapting & Optioning: The Road from Book to Film
Stage: That’s Entertainment Pavilion (Signing at Book Soup Booth)
Time: 10:45-11:45am
Recent Titles: Nappily in Bloom
Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson is a longtime former Senior Editor of The Advocate and the author of seven books on gay history and culture, including the internationally acclaimed Gay Spirit, Gay Soul, and Gay Body trilogy. His latest work, Advocate Days and Other Stories, a memoir about being an activist, is being published this month by Queer MoJo/Rebel Satori Press. Thompson is a photographer as well and a collection of his images has toured nationally. He lives with his partner and fellow writer of 25 years, Malcolm Boyd.
Panel: Three On A Match: An Intergenerational Dialogue with Gay Literary Icons
Stage: The Good Reads Pavilion (Signing at Skylight Books)
Time: 1:00-1:45pm
Recent Titles: Advocate Days and Other Stories
Mark Waid
Mark Waid has been a comics writer and editor for over twenty years and has scripted the adventures of everyone from Superman to the X-Men to Archie. Among his works is Kingdom Come, one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of BOOM! Comics and BOOM! Kids.
Panel: Dream on Demand: Vision Vs. Market Place
Stage: Comics, Sci-fi & Beyond Pavilion
Time: 11:00-12:00pm
Recent Titles: Irredeemable
Kim Wayans & Kevin Knotts
Kim Wayans
In the 1990’s, she starred in the ground breaking sketch-comedy show, In Living Color, along with her four brothers: Keenen, Damon, Shawn and Marlon Wayans. When the show ended its last season, Kim went on to co-star in the sitcom In The House with L.L. Cool J, and was featured in the film, Juwanna Mann. It wasn’t until a few years ago that Kim went back to her childhood passion for creating and writing, when she left acting to become a writer/producer/director for the ABC hit family comedy, My Wife and Kids.
Kevin Knotts
In addition to guest starring on such popular shows as Sabrina the Teenage Witch and My Wife and Kids, Kevin is also a writer on the ABC hit family comedy My Wife and Kids. He continues to write and penned three screenplays, one with his wife and writing partner, Kim Wayans.
Panel: Kim Wayans & Kevin Knotts
Stage: The Kids’ Stage
Time: 2:25-2:35pm
Recent Titles: Amy Hodgepodge: The Secret’s Out
Terry Wolverton
Terry Wolverton is author of seven books: Embers, a novel-in-poems; Insurgent Muse: life and art at the Woman’s Building, a memoir; The Labrys Reunion and Bailey’s Beads, novels; and three collections of poetry: Black Slip, Mystery Bruise and Shadow and Praise. She has also edited fourteen literary anthologies, including Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing center in Los Angeles, where she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
Panel: The Future of Publishing and also Take Back the Night: Feminism and Powerful Women in Fiction” (sponsored by the Women’s Advisory Board of the City of West Hollywood )
Stage: The Salon and also The Fact, Fiction & Future Pavilion (Signing at Skylight Books and Book Soup)
Time: 3:15-4:15pm and also 1:00-1:55pm
Recent Titles: The Labrys Reunion
For a complete list of authors appearing on panels, see the 2009 Complete List of Authors & Artists Appearing on Stage or visit our Stage Schedules!