Authors: Fiction

Jessica Anthony

Jessica Anthony is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the novel The Most, longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction, and a finalist for the Prix Fitzgerald. Her novel Enter the Aardvark was a finalist for the New England Book Award in Fiction. Anthony won...

William Boyle

William Boyle is the author of eight books set in and around the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, where he was born and raised. His most recent novel is Saint of the Narrows Street, available now from Soho Crime. His books have been nominated for the Hammett Prize, the...

Ada Calhoun

Ada Calhoun is the author of a new novel, Crush and a memoir, Also a Poet, named one of the best books of 2022 by The New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and featured on the Today...

Heather Clark

Heather Clark is a biographer, literary critic, and novelist. She is the author of a new novel, The Scrapbook, a biography Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972, and...

Timothy Crellin

Timothy Crellin is an Episcopal priest, ordained in 1996 after graduating from Brown University and Harvard Divinity School. He is rector of a church in central Massachusetts and serves as a hospice chaplain. His mother’s family came to the United States from Sicily in the early part of the...

Marcy Dermansky

Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hot Air, Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad Marie and Twins. Marcy's short fiction has been widely published and anthologized, appearing in McSweeney's, Guernica, and elsewhere. Her essay "Maybe I Loved You" appeared in the best-selling anthology...

Alison Espach

Alison Espach is the author of the novels The Wedding People, a New York Times bestseller and a Today Show #ReadWithJenna Bookclub pick, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, an Indie Next Pick and Amazon Editors’ Pick for 2022, and The Adults, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Barnes...

Rob Franklin

Born and raised in Atlanta, Rob Franklin is a writer of fiction and poetry, and a cofounder of Art for Black Lives. A Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award, he has published work in New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus...

Makenna Goodman

Makenna Goodman is the author the forthcoming novel Helen of Nowhere and The Shame, which was named a Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020, a   Recommended Read, a Refinery29 Best New Book, a Literary Hub Recommended Read, a Bustle Most Anticipated Book, a Boston.com Book Club Pick, and more....

Adam Haslett

Adam Haslett is the author of the story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novels Union Atlantic, Imagine Me Gone and a new novel, Mothers and Sons. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as a finalist for the National Book Award and the...

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than 35 languages. The Family Clause was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and received the Prix Médicis Étranger...

Betsy Lerner

Betsy Lerner is the author of the novel, Shred Sisters. She is also the author The Bridge Ladies, The Forest for the Trees and Food and Loathing. With Temple Grandin, she is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think...

Peter Mendelsund

Peter Mendelsund is the author of seven books: including his novel The Delivery; “Gorgeously written; profound.” Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours), the novel Same Same described as: “Breezy and profound in equal measure.” —The New York Times, the non-fiction works What We See When We Read, (“Welcome and...

Ben Shattuck

Ben Shattuck’s most recent book, The History of Sound, was the winner of the Story Prize Spotlight Award and nominated for the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His film adaptation of the title story premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film...

Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time Is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novels On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, winner of the American Book Award, The Mark Twain Award, and The New England...

Tim Weed

Tim Weed is the author of three books of fiction. His story collection, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing, was named to the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize Shortlist, and his first novel, Will Poole’s Island, was one of Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books...