LA Times Festival of Books 2018

Zarembo is an assistant foreign editor. He has also been an investigative reporter with a focus on medicine, science and the military. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2003, he was Mexico City bureau chief for Newsweek and a freelance journalist based in central Africa. He... Read More →

Bowden is the author of thirteen books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller "Black Hawk Down." He reported at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and other magazines. He is also the writer in residence at the University... Read More →

Wilentz is the author of "Farewell Fred Voodoo" (2013), "The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier" (1990), "Martyrs' Crossing" (2000), and "I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen" (2006). She is the winner of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award... Read More →

Young is a Marine Corps infantry veteran, teacher, and writer. His work can be found in Incoming: Veteran Wrtiers on Coming Home, CONSEQUENCE Magazine, Split Lip, Word Riot, Tin House, River Teeth, and many others. He teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Centralia... Read More →

Yu is a filmmaker and writer. Her documentaries include the Academy Award-winning "Breathing Lessons," the water crisis film "Last Call at the Oasis," and "In the Realms of the Unreal," a portrait of artist Henry Darger, nominated for a Writers Guild of America award. Her directing... Read More →