Authors: Fiction

Cara Blue Adams

Cara Blue Adams is the author of You Never Get It Back, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Prize in the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series. She has published over twenty stories in leading magazines, including Granta, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, The...

Andrea Barrett

Andrea Barrett is the author of nine previous works of fiction, including the National Book Award-winning Ship Fever and Pulitzer Prize finalist Servants of the Map. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship, as well as a finalist for the Story...

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of three collections of short stories, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, and a new collection, How Strange a Season. She is currently writing a book on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Megan is a journalist, essayist, and critic who has...

Wyn Cooper

Wyn Cooper has published five books of poems: The Country of Here Below, The Way Back, Postcards from the Interior, Chaos is the New Calm, and Mars Poetica. His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Slate, Crazyhorse, AGNI, The Southern...

Alice Elliott Dark

Alice Elliott Dark is the author of the novels Fellowship Point and Think of England, and two collections of short stories, In The Gloaming and Naked to the Waist.  Her work has appeared in, among others, The New Yorker, Harper's, DoubleTake, Ploughshares, A Public Space, Best American Short Stories,...

Alison Espach

Alison Espach is the author of the novels 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 and Noble Discover pick. Her short story series In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People...

Carolyn Ferrell

Carolyn Ferrell’s short-story collection, Don’t Erase Me, won awards from the Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, and more. Her stories have been selected for anthologies by Roxane Gay and Curtis Sittenfeld, among others. Her latest book, Dear Miss Metropolitan, was a finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and a...

Julia Glass

Julia Glass is the author of a new book, Vigil Harbor, and six previous books of fiction, including the best-selling Three Junes, winner of the National Book Award, and I See You Everywhere, winner of the Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for...

Jennifer Haigh

Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short-story collection News from Heaven and six bestselling and critically acclaimed novels, including her new book, Mercy Street and Faith, Mrs. Kimble, and Heat and Light, which was named a Best Book of 2016 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street...

Annie Hartnett

Annie Hartnett is the author of Rabbit Cake, which was listed as one of Kirkus Reviews’s Best Books of 2017 and a finalist for the New England Book Award and a new book, Unlikely Animals. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Associates of...

Brad Kessler

Brad Kessler is a critically acclaimed novelist whose work has been translated into several languages. He won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in Fiction for his novel, Birds in Fall, a Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as a Whiting Writers Award. He...

Ann Leary

Ann Leary is the New York Times bestselling author of a memoir and four novels including The Good House. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages, and she has written for The New York Times, Ploughshares, NPR, Redbook, and Real Simple, among other publications. Her essay, “Rallying to Keep the Game Alive,” was adapted for Prime Video’s...

Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard began publishing her stories in magazines when she was thirteen years old and came to national attention with the publication of her New York Times cover story in 1972, when she was a freshman at Yale. Since then, she has been a reporter and columnist for The New...

David Means

David Means is the author of six story collections, including Assorted Fire Events, The Spot, The Secret Goldfish, Instructions for a Funeral and the forthcoming Two Nurses Smoking. Assorted Fire Events won the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle...

Nathaniel Ian Miller

Nathaniel Ian Miller’s debut novel, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, a #1 Indie Next Pick and finalist for the Vermont Book Award, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and is being translated into multiple languages. He has written for the Virginia Quarterly Review and newspapers...

GennaRose Nethercott

GennaRose Nethercott is the author of The Lumberjack’s Dove, selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her other recent projects include the narrative song collection Modern Ballads, and Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog: A Story in Cootie Catchers. A Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow,...

Elizabeth Nunez

Elizabeth Nunez is the award-winning author of a memoir and nine novels, four of them selected as New York Times Editors’ Choices. Anna In-Between won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award and was long-listed for an IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award. Nunez also received the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in...

Tom Perrotta

Tom Perrotta is the bestselling author of ten works of fiction, including Election and Little Children, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films, and The Leftovers, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Peabody Award-winning HBO series. His other books include Bad Haircut, The Wishbones, Joe College, The...

Kirthana Ramisetti

Kirthana Ramisetti earned her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, and has had her work published in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and more. Her debut novel, Dava Shastri’s Last Day, was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, and is currently in development as a television series for...

Bill Roorbach

Bill Roorbach’s newest book is Lucky Turtle. Also from Algonquin are The Girl of the Lake, The Remedy for Love, and Life Among Giants, which won the Maine Literary Award in Fiction in 2012. Big Bend:Stories won the Flannery O'Connor Award and an O. Henry prize, both in 2000. His memoir in nature, Temple Stream, won the Maine...

Gina Sorell

Gina Sorell is the author of The Wise Women, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Good Morning America Buzz Pick, People Magazine Best New Book, Today Show Read With Jenna and Parade Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2022, Canadian Living Selection. She was featured in Toronto Life's Notable Torontonians....