About Kim KIM POWERS is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir The History of Swimming, which was both a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” Selection as well as a Lambda Literary Award finalist for Best Memoir of the Year. Entertainment Weekly calls Powers’ latest novel, Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story, “welcome,” […]
Jennie Shortridge, author of Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe, on Tour – November 2008
About Jennie Bestselling author Jennie Shortridge has three published novels: Riding with the Queen, (NAL 2003), Eating Heaven(2005), and Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe (2008). Prior to writing novels, her nonfiction work appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Natural Home, and others. The Seattle writer has been called “an accomplished and superior novelist” by […]
Lesley Dormen, author of The Best Place to Be, on Tour – October 2008
About Lesley LESLEY DORMEN was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio and lives in New York City, where she is the Associate Director of The Writers Studio and teaches fiction writing. Her short stories have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Five Points, Open City, Glimmer Train and Ladies’ Home Journal. Two have been included in “100 Other Distinguished Stories” of the year […]
Kathleen McCleary, Author of House and Home, On Tour September 2008
About Kathleen Kathleen McCleary is a reporter and writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, More, and Health, and on HGTV.com. She lives in northern Virginia. Kathleen’s novel, House and Home, is the story of a woman who loves her house so much, she’ll do just about anything to keep […]
Kathryn Maughan, author of Did I Expect Angels? On Tour – September 2008
About Kathryn Kathryn Maughan grew up in Roy, Utah and moved to New York City in 1993. She graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and then moved to Costa Rica for 18 months. Upon her return to New York, she enrolled in Columbia University, where she majored in literature and fiction writing. Later […]