Timothy Jay Smith, an American in Paris who has placed several times with his novels in the Faulkner-Wisdom Competition, has…
Dr. Nghana Lewis is is a proud native of Louisiana, having grown up in Lafayette, where she attended and graduated…
Lolis Eric Elie, a writer for the popular HBO television series Treme, has a new book out inspired by both…
REVIEWS OF THE NEW NOVEL: The American south has produced some of the greatest writers in history. Seated at the…
Lawrence N. Powell, who holds the James H. Clark Endowed Chair in American Civilization, has taught history at Tulane University…
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…