LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Curwen is a staff writer for the Times, where he has worked as editor of the Outdoors section, deputy editor of the Book Review and a features editor. He and a team of Times reporters won a Pulitzer for their work covering the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In 2008, he... Read More →

Kohli is an education and breaking news reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She focuses on how diversity and inequality affect the young people of Los Angeles, and has anchored coverage of the most recent California fire sieges. She's an avid Sparks fan and stress-baker.

Lin II is a metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times, specializing in covering statewide earthquake safety issues and Northern California. He won the California Newspaper Publishers Assn.’s Freedom of Information Award and the University of Florida’s Joseph L. Brechner Freedom... Read More →

Nelson is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times covering Southern California transportation issues and natural disasters across the Golden State. She shared in the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack. Laura grew up in Kansas City and graduated... Read More →

Vives is a Los Angeles Times reporter, whose coverage, involved more than two dozen other reporters and editors, led to criminal charges against eight current and former officials and the return of millions of dollars in illegal taxes to Bell, CA residents and other legislative efforts... Read More →

Yam is a Los Angeles Times staff photographer living in the beautiful City of Angels. In 2017, Yam was named Picture of The Year International’s Newspaper Photographer Of The Year. In 2015, he was part of the breaking news team that covered tragic San Bernardino, Calif. terrorist... Read More →