LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Wallen, a novelist and memoirist, is Associate Director of the New York State Summer Writers' Institute. In addition, she teaches private workshops and edits manuscripts. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Normal School, Country Living, The Writers' Chronicle... Read More →

LaValle is the author of seven works of fiction. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. He teaches writing at Columbia University. His most recent book is "The Changeling," a finalist... Read More →

Loory is the author of the collections "Tales of Falling and Flying" and "Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day," both from Penguin Books. His fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, READ Magazine, and Fairy Tale Review, and been heard on This American Life... Read More →

Machado's debut story collection, "Her Body and Other Parties," was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and is a finalist for the 2017 LA Times Book Prize in First Fiction. She is a fiction writer, critic, essayist... Read More →