2011 Confirmed Authors
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Walter BoyneCategory: Nonfiction Retired colonel Walter J. Boyne is founder of Air & Space Magazine and is recognized as a worldwide authority on air power. One of the first directors of the National Air and
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Megan E. BryantCategory: Young Readers Central (Preschool) Megan E. Bryant has written more than 180 children’s books (including a New York Times bestseller) for ages ranging from babies to teens. Two of her books, Mythlopedia: Oh My God! and Mythlopedia: She’s All That! were named 2009 VOYA Nonfiction Honor Books. As a former children’s book editor, Bryant has edited more than 225 books. Her most recent books are Build a Snowman, 1-2-3! and The Sugar Egg. Presented with support from Piedmont Parent magazine |
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Sheri CastleCategory: Food For Thought Sheri Castle is a food writer and cooking instructor based in Chapel Hill, N.C. She is the author of The New Southern Garden Cookbook: Enjoying the Best from Homegrown Gardens, Farmers’ Markets, Roadside Stands, and CSA Farm Boxes, published by UNC Press, which features 300 recipes for both omnivores and vegetarians. It promotes delicious, healthful homemade meals centered on the diverse array of seasonal fruits and vegetables grown in the South, and in most of the rest of the nation as well. |
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Dallas ClaytonCategory: Young Readers Central Dallas Clayton is the author and illustrator of two children’s books: An Awesome Book and An Awesome Book of Thanks. A graduate of Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC, he now lives in Los Angeles, CA. |
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Scott DouglasCategory: Nonfiction Scott Douglas, the author of The Little Red Book of Running, is a lifelong runner and the Senior Editor for Running Times. He has published articles about running in Runner’s World, the Washington Post, Slate, Running Times, Marathon and Beyond, Washington City Paper, Men’s Fitness, Women Outside and Women’s Sports + Fitness for 20 years.
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Robert EdelsteinCategory: Nonfiction/ Sports Robert Edelstein is the author of Nascar Legends: Memorable Men, Moments and Machines in Racing History. He is the exclusive motor sports writer for TV Guide, where his stories are read by more NASCAR fans than any other writer in the country. He also contributes to Stuff, Blender, and A&E Biography, among other publications and is frequently featured on television and on the radio as an expert on motor sports. |
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Terri Kirby EricksonCategory: Poetry Terri Kirby Erickson is the award-winning author of three collections of poetry, including Telling Tales of Dusk, which reached #23 on The Poetry Foundation Contemporary Best Sellers list in 2010, and her latest collection, In the Palms of Angels. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, anthologies and publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, JAMA and the North Carolina Literary Review. Her awards include honors from The North Carolina Poetry Society, The Writers’ Ink Guild and the international 2011 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Contest. |
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Jeaniene FrostCategory: Fiction / Romance Jeaniene Frost is the New York Times,
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Jamie GilsonCategory: Young Readers Central Jamie Gilson is the author of 20 books including Chess! I Love It I Love It I Love It!, Gotcha!, Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub and many more books for children. She is the winner of many awards including a 2005 Prairie State Award for Excellence in Writing for Children and the Carl Sandburg Award from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. Gilson wrote, produced, and acted in educational radio programs at the Chicago Public Schools station WBEZ, now National Public Radio. She served as a columnist for Chicago magazine for 10 years |
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Joseph GlatthaarCategory: Nonfiction/ History Joseph Glatthaar’s first book, The March to the Sea and Beyond received three major national prizes. His second book, Forged in Battle, established Glatthaar “as the leading authority on black troops in the Civil War.” In 1991-92, he held the prestigious Harold K. Johnson Visiting Professorship at the Army Military History Institute at the U.S. Army War College. The Stephenson Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, Glatthaar’s most recent books include General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse and Soldering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee. |
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Sandra GutierrezCategory: Food for Thought (Spanish and English) Sandra A. Gutierrez, bicultural cook and author of The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold & Beloved Flavors of Latin America and The American South, grew up in Guatemala and the United States. The 150 featured recipes blend ingredients, traditions, and culinary techniques, creatively marrying the diverse and delicious cuisines of more than 20 Latin American countries with food of the American South. In a career that spans two decades, Gutierrez is a food writer, recipe tester and developer who has had over 1500 original recipes published. This professional cooking instructor has taught thousands how to cook. This program will be in Spanish and English. Presented with support from the Hispanic League |
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Elin HilderbrandCategory: Fiction Elin Hilderbrand is the author of ten novels including The
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Scott HulerCategory: Nonfiction Scott Huler has written for magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, the
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Gran'daddy Junebug (storyteller)Category: Young Readers Central (ages 5 - 9) “Gran’daddy Junebug” / Mitch Capel is considered the “national interpreter” of former poet laureate Paul Laurence Dunbar. Capel has received numerous awards for his work as a storyteller, including “The Zora Neal Hurston Award,” the highest honor given by the National Association of Black Storytellers and was invited by the Smithsonian to perform for the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. He has been featured at numerous festivals and was Artist-In-Residence at The International Storytelling Center in |
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Cameron KentCategory: Fiction/ Young Readers Central Cameron Kent is an Emmy award-winning news anchor for WXII, the NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem, NC. His news reporting for television has won awards from both the Associated Press and United Press International. His film credits include movies shown on NBC, HBO, Lifetime, and at the American Film Institute. He is the author of When the Ravens Die and the historical novel, The Road to Devotion, which has been chosen for Forsyth County’s On the Same Page 2011. A graduate of Wake Forest University, he also wrote the children’s book Make Me Disappear. Presented with support from the Forsyth County Public Library On the Same Page Program |
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Sheila KohlerCategory: Fiction Born in
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Margaret MaronCategory: Fiction A native Tar Heel, Margaret Maron is the author of 26 novels and two collections of short stories. Winner of several major American awards for mysteries (Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity), she received the 2008 North Carolina Award for Literature, the state’s highest civilian honor. Her book, Bootlegger's Daughter, is numbered among the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century as selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Maron has served as president of Sisters in Crime, the American Crime Writers League, and Mystery Writers of America. Her newest books, Sand Sharks and Christmas Mourning, find her and Judge Deborah Knott, a district court judge, back in fictional Colleton County, N.C. Presented with support from the North Carolina Writers’ Network |
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Henry NeffCategory: Young Readers Central Henry Neff is the author and illustrator of The Tapestry, a fantasy fiction series that follows the life of a boy named Max McDaniels. This series combines, fantasy, history, mythology, folklore and science fiction, and includes The Hound of Rowan, The Second Siege, and The Fiend and Forge. The story is loosely based on the Irish myth “The Cattle Raid of Cooley.” |
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Valerie NiemanCategory: Fiction Valerie Nieman’s novel, Blood Clay, will be published this spring. She is also the author of a collection of short stories, Fidelities, and a poetry collection, Wake Wake Wake. Her fiction has appeared in many journals including The Kenyon Review, Green Mountains Review, Arts & Letters, and the recent anthology Degrees of Elevation. She has received an NEA creative writing fellowship, two Elizabeth Simpson Smith prizes in fiction, and the Greg Grummer Prize in poetry. She teaches writing at North Carolina A&T State University and is the poetry editor for Prime Number. |
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Shana NorrisCategory: Teen Central Shana Norris is a web designer by day and a writer at night. She is the author of two young adult novels, Something to Blog About and Troy High. Troy High was inspired by the story of the Trojan War and Helen of Troy and parallels many of the events of The Iliad. Norris lives in Kinston, NC, with her husband and mini-zoo of pets. |
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Alice OsbornCategory: Poetry Alice Osborn is the author of two books of poetry, Unfinished Projects and Right Lane Ends. She is a manuscript editor, freelance writer and storyteller. Her work has appeared in Raleigh’s News and Observer, Soundings Review, The Pedestal Magazine, and in numerous journals and anthologies. |
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Joanna PearsonCategory: Young Adult Fiction / Teen Joanna Pearson attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar. She did graduate work in Ireland as a George J. Mitchell Scholar and later earned an MFA in poetry as well as an MD at The Johns Hopkins University. She's received grants/residency fellowships in poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Corporation of Yaddo, along with a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Bellevue Literary Review, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, River Styx, and elsewhere. The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills is her first novel.
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Tom PerrottaCategory: Fiction Tom Perrotta’s newest book is The Leftovers. He is the author of six other works of fiction, including The Wishbones, The Abstinence Teacher, and Joe College. His novels Election and Little Children were made into acclaimed and award-winning movies. Presented in honor of Victor F. Harllee, Jr. |
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Drew PerryCategory: Fiction Drew Perry has published fiction in Willow Springs, Black Warrior Review, Atlanta Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, and New Stories from the South, among other places. He teaches writing at
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Brian RayCategory: Fiction/Emerging Authors Panel Brian Ray has been dubbed by Booklist as "a talent to watch." His first novel Through the Pale Door won a 2010 IPPY award for best regional fiction. Ray's short fiction has been nominated for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize anthology and Best New American Voices. Ray is a winner of the 2007 South Carolina Fiction Project and a finalist for the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize. His work has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Timbercreek Review, Louisiana Review, and New South. His second novel Unknown Female will be available July 1.
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Category: Nonfiction Festival Year, Time & Place: 10:15 a.m. - 11 a.m. at Trade Street Stage on September 10, 2011 Linda Randall is an ethnographer and writer from upstate New York. A graduate of Wake Forest University Master of Arts program, she is the author of Finding Grace in The Concert Hall: Community and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans. This book documents the ways in which Springsteen fans are inspired to create a global cultural community, offering emotional support, spirituality, and the motivation for doing good works. |
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Kimberla Lawson RobyCategory: Fiction Kimberla Lawson Roby’s newest book Secret Obsession will be released in September. Love, Honor, and Betray - the eighth novel in her Reverend Curtis Black series - was released in January 2011. Her fifteen novels have frequented numerous national bestseller lists including The New York Times and those in USA Today, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Essence Magazine, and more. She is a four-time recipient of the Author of the Year – Female Award presented by the African-American Literary Award Show in New York. |
 Kimberla Lawson RobyDiscussion Questions - Secret Obsession Reading Guide- Love, Honor, and Betray |
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Lisa SeeCategory: fiction Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Dreams of Joy, Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and Shanghai Girls as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain. The Organization of Chinese American Women named See the 2001 National Woman of the Year and she was the recipient of the Chinese American Museum’s History Makers Award in 2003. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan will be released as a movie on July 15 by Fox Searchlight. It is directed by Wayne Wang and stars Bingbing Li, Gianna Jun, Vivian Wu, and Hugh Jackman. |
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Martha SouthgateCategory: Fiction Martha Southgate newest book The Taste of Salt will be released in September. Third Girl from the Left won the Best Novel of the year award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was shortlisted for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy award. The Fall of Rome received the 2003 Alex Award from the American Library Association and was named one of the best novels of 2002 by the Washington Post. Another Way to Dance won the Coretta Scott King Genesis Award for Best First Novel. Southgate has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O, Premiere, and Essence. She now teaches in the Brooklyn College MFA program.
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Justin SpringCategory: Nonfiction/ Biography Justin Spring is the author of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, a moving portrait of homosexual life long before Stonewall and gay liberation. Named a 2010 National Book Award Finalist, Secret Historian is drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel Steward. Spring specializes in twentieth-century American art and culture, and is the author of many monographs, museum publications, and books. |
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Stephanie L. Tyson and Vivian JoinerCategory: Food for Thought Stephanie L. Tyson and her partner and co-owner, Vivian Joiner’s Well, Shut My Mouth! The Sweet Potatoes Restaurant Cookbook includes recipes collected from a variety of southern influences. In creating the recipes, Tyson used all of her influences—Geechee flavor from Joiner’s father, who was from South Carolina; her mother’s working-woman “out of the can and into the pan” shortcuts; and her training in culinary arts in Baltimore, South Carolina, the Florida Keys, Arizona, and Maryland. This book is also the history of the two women who started a locally and nationally acclaimed restaurant in
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Jane Williams, Sandra Gilmer and Mina J. CookCategory: Young Readers Central Jane Williams, Sandra Gilmer and Mina J. Cook, veterans of education services and public health industries, co-authored the children’s book Who2Bee: The Inside Story. The book was designed to enhance the study of reading and writing for elementary school students. Williams also co-authored Take Charge!, a curriculum designed to help adolescents take control of their lives. |
 
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Vanessa WoodsCategory: Nonfiction/ Young Readers Central Vanessa Woods is an internationally published journalist who has written for various publications including the Discovery Channel, BBC Wildlife and New Scientist. She is the main Australian/ New Zealand feature writer for the Discovery Channel and won the Australasian Science award for journalism in 2003. She is currently a Research Scientist at Duke University and studies the cognitive development chimpanzees and bonobos at sanctuaries in the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her most recent book, Bonobo Handshake, a memoir, follows her journey in 2005 to the war-torn Congo to study endangered bonobo apes. Presented with support from Connect a Million Minds, an initiative of Time Warner Cable |
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Workshops for Writers and ReadersCategory: Workshops
From Ducks and Dinosaurs to Spiders and Substitute Teachers: Writing for Children with Megan E. Bryant and Jamie Gilson 10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. at Urban Artware
With more than 200 books and 43 years of experience between them, authors Bryant and Gilson will address how to write for children. Topics will include transforming ideas into publishable manuscripts, breaking into children’s publishing, common myths about writing for children, and more.
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. at Urban Artware Learn about the latest in eReaders, MP3 players and eBooks. Examples of the many digital options will be shown along with a chance to have your questions answered. Presented with support from the
Details and Dust: The Road to Draft, The Road to Revision, and The Road, Maybe, to Publication with Drew Perry This workshop will focus on the most important aspect of publication: having the draft ready before trying to publish it. Learn about first drafts, final drafts, everything in between, and what might come after. Learn how to see what might be missing, and what to do if a draft is ever finished.
Words Personified! - How to Make Your Literary Works Perform 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. at Urban Artware Team members of the Piedmont Spoken & Literary Arts Movement or Piedmont SLAM will show attendees how to make your words come alive when performed.
Story Detectives Writing Workshop (TEEN) 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. at Urban Artware Become a detective of your own life by exploring how to find and make stories out of the details around you. This can include the chipped paint on the wall or the mysterious sounds coming from the attic. Teachers from The Story Hatchery, an extracurricular art school in
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