Oscar Hijuelos became the first Latino writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1990 with his second novel,…
In his first nonfiction book since the post-Katrina classic Why New Orleans Matters, acclaimed novelist, journalist, and cultural critic Tom…
Mark Yakich’s first novel, A Meaning for Wife, will be released concurrent with Words & Music 2011. Mark is the…
Monika Wikman Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst who trained in Switzerland. She is author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the…
Lawrence Wells, Ph.D. is the author of Rommel and the Rebel and Let the Band Play Dixie (Doubleday & Co.)…
Armando Valladares, who will deliver a keynote address during Words & Music, 2011, was a Cuban Postal Bank employee supporting…
Justin Torres’s debut novel, We The Animals (released in September, 2011), has released a firestorm of critical praise. His work…
Julie Smith, the well-known creator of the dectectives Skip Langdon and Talba Wallace in her mystery series which includes the…
Chris Ruen is an author from Brooklyn whose essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Slate and…
Brad Richard’s second collection of poems, Motion Studies, won the 2010 Washington Prize from The Word Works and was published…