Authors: Fiction

Kathleen Alcott

Kathleen Alcott was born in 1988 in Northern California. She is the author of the novels America Was Hard to Find, Infinite Home and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets. Her short fiction, criticism, memoir, and food writing have appeared in outlets including Harper’s, Zoetrope: All Story, The New York...

Asale Angel-Ajani

Ansale Angel-Ajani is the author of A Country You Can Leave and Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in The International Drug Trade. She’s held residencies at Djerassi, Millay, Playa, Tin House, and VONA. She is a recipient of grants from the Ford, Mellon, and...

Holly Black

Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty fantasy novels for kids and teens. She has been a finalist for an Eisner Award and the Lodestar Award, and the recipient of the Mythopoeic Award, a Nebula, and a Newbery Honor. Her books have been...

Jill Bialosky

Jill Bialosky is the author of six acclaimed collections of poetry, three critically acclaimed novels, and two memoirs, including History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life, a New York Times bestseller. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry; The New Yorker; The Atlantic; Harper’s...

Tom Comitta

Tom Comitta is the author of 〇, Airport Novella, and First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011–2014, a print and digital archive of forty “night novels,” art books, and poetry collections. His new, critically acclaimed novel is The Nature Book. Comitta’s fiction and essays have appeared in WIRED, Lit...

Margot Douaihy

Margot Douaihy is a Lebanese American originally from Scranton, PA, now living in Northampton, MA. She received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Lancaster in the UK. She is the author of the poetry collections Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, Scranton Lace, and Girls...

Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III’s books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His novel, Gone So Long, received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal and has been named on many “Best Books” lists, including selection...

Daisy Alpert Florin

Daisy Alpert Florin is the author of the new novel My Last Innocent Year. She attended Dartmouth College and received graduate degrees from Columbia University and Bank Street Graduate School of Education. A recipient of the 2016 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College, she was a 2019–20...

Allegra Goodman

Allegra Goodman’s novels include Sam (a Read With Jenna Book Club selection), The Chalk Artist (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award), Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park, and Kaaterskill Falls (a National Book Award finalist). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She has written...

Henry Hoke

Henry Hoke is an editor at The Offing and a writer whose work has appeared in No Tokens, Triangle House, Electric Literature, and the flash noir anthology Tiny Crimes. His new book, Open Throat, told from the view of a mountain lion, was just published to rave reviews. He...

Mary Beth Keane

Mary Beth Keane attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA. She was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing, and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society. She is the author of The Walking People, Fever,...

Angie Kim

Angie Kim moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, she studied philosophy at Stanford University and attended Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her debut novel, Miracle Creek, won the...

Jean Kwok

Jean Kwok is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Girl in Translation and Mambo in Chinatown. Her forthcoming book is The Leftover Woman, an evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women. Her work has been published in twenty countries and...

Kelly Link

Kelly Link is the author of the collections White Cat, Black Dog, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and Get in Trouble. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry...

Jennifer McMahon

Jennifer McMahon is the author of ten novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Promise Not to Tell and The Winter People. She graduated with a BA from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College. Her forthcoming book, My Darling Girl,...

Catherine Newman

Catherine Newman is the author of a new novel, We All Want Impossible Things, the kids' how-to books How to Be a Person and What Can I Say?, the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, and the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night. She is also the author of...

Idra Novey

Idra Novey's novel Take What You Need was named a spring fiction pick with The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and also one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 So Far. Her first novel Ways to Disappear was a finalist for the L.A. Times First Fiction Prize and won the Brooklyn Public Library's Book Prize for...

Michael Ruhlman

Michael Ruhlman is the author of nine non-fiction books, one collection of novellas, and eight cookbooks; he is the co-author with various chefs of ten other cookbooks. Best known for writing about food, chefs and the work of professional cooking, he has also written for The New York Times,...

Alejandro Varela

Alejandro Varela is a writer based in New York. His debut novel, The Town of Babylon, was a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. His new story collection, People Who Report More Stress, was published in April to critical acclaim. His work has appeared in The Point Magazine,...

Laura Zigman

Laura Zigman is the author of five novels, including Separation Anxiety (optioned for a limited television series); Animal Husbandry (which was made into the movie Someone Like You, starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd), Dating Big Bird, Her, and Piece of Work. She has ghostwritten/collaborated on several works of...