2019 Authors & Speakers

Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Once Removed and Toward Antarctica. Her awards include a Stegner Fellowship and the Audre Lorde Prize  (More)

Jamie Brenner’s is the author of The Husband Hour, The Forever Summer (set in Provincetown), and Drawing Home. Her next novel Summer Longing publishes in 2020. (More)

Christopher Castellani is the author of Leading Men, featured in Publishers Weekly, People, Interview, Entertainment Weekly, and the New York Times. (More)

Adam Chromy is the president of Movable Type Management and has been a literary agent for over fifteen years. (More)

Bathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian, specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic.  Her new book is Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. (More)

Mark Dery is a cultural critic and the author of Born To Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, named one of the Best Books of 2018 by NPR, The Guardian, and Mental Floss. (More)

Karen Dukess is the author of The Last Book Party. (More)

Andre  Dubus III is the author of seven books: The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, and the New York Times bestsellers, House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie, and his most recent book Gone So Long. (More)

Casey Gerald is the author of the memoir There Will Be No Miracles Here, a classic rags-to-riches tale, the book stands the American Dream narrative on its head, while straddling the complex intersection of race, class, religion, sexuality and masculinity. (More)

Amy Hoffman is the author of the novel The Off Season and the memoirs Lies about My Family, An Army of Ex-Lovers, and Hospital Time. (More)

Russ Lopez is is the author of The Hub of The Gay Universe: An LGBTQ history of Boston, Provincetown, and Beyond. He has worked at Boston City Hall and the Massachusetts State House and has decades of experience with LGBTQ and straight politics. (More)

Doug Mack  is the author of The Not-Quite States of America (Norton, 2017) and Europe on Five Wrong Turns a Day. (More)

Darnell L. Moore is the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America, deeply personal memoir and a New York Times Notable Book of 2018. (More)

Julia Phillips is a Fulbright fellow whose writing has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Atlantic, Slate, and The Moscow Times.  (More)

Trent Preszler, Ph. D., is an Emmy Award-winning American wine industry executive, CEO of Bedell Cellars, and Immediate Past Chairman of the Board of WineAmerica. (More)

Whitney Scharer is the author of The Age of Light, her first novel, based on the life of pioneering photographer Lee Miller.  It was published by Little, Brown (US) and Picador (UK) in February, 2019, and was a Barnes and Noble Discover pick, People pick, and IndieNext selection. (More)

Akiba Solomon is the Senior Editorial Director of Colorlines. She is an NABJ-Award winning journalist from West Philadelphia. She and Kenrya Rankin are the authors of How We Fight White Supremacy. (More)

Martha E. Stone is the Literary Editor of the Gay & Lesbian Review, where she is responsible for acquiring and selecting books for review.  She has contributed to virtually every issue for the past twenty-five years, usually book reviews or essays, on a wide variety of topics. (More)