LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Brown is a Web producer working in entertainment for the Los Angeles Times. She helps provide digital content for the Arts and Entertainment sections and has also written for the Travel, Books and Image sections. A Long Beach native, she graduated from UCLA.

MariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of "Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume," "Ages 0 to 22," "Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories," "Turning Japanese," "I Thought YOU Hated ME," and the "Life on Earth" trilogy. She is the founder of the Cartoonists of Color and... Read More →

Ribon writes in film (“Moana,” “Bears”), comics (“SLAM!,” “Rick & Morty”), TV (“Samantha Who?”) and fiction (“Why Girls Are Weird”). Her comedic memoir "Notes to Boys: and Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public" was praised by NPR as "brain-breakingly funny... Read More →

Walden is a two-time Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist from Austin, Texas. Born in 1996, she is a recent graduate from the Center for Cartoon Studies, a comics school in Vermont. Her comics include "The End of Summer" and "I Love This Part," an Eisner Award nominee. Her most recent... Read More →