Authors: Fiction

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 of two novels, Helen of Nowhere and The Shame. She has written literary criticism, essays, interviews, and short fiction for international publications including the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Catapult,Harvard Review, the White Review,BOMB, The Common, ASTRA Magazine, and MOUSSE. Based in Vermont, Goodman is also an...

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...

Allegra Hyde

Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection The Last Catastrophe, an Editors’ Choice selection at The New York Times and a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award. Her debut novel Eleutheria was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, and featured on...

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...

Sally Wen Mao

Sally Wen Mao is the author of the poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces, a finalist for the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Prize. Her debut fiction collection, Ninetails,was released in May 2024. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, Oculus, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times...

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...

Sam Sussman

Sam Sussman is the author of the debut novel Boy From the North Country, published by Penguin Press on September 16, 2025. Sam previously won the BAFTA New Writing Award and wrote the memoir, The Silent Type: On (Possibly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son. Kirkus Reviews calls Boy From the North Country...

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...