Dr. Kelly Kolodny

Kelly Kolodny is a Professor of Education at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. Her books include Normalites: The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States (2014) published with Information Age Publishing and Moments that Matter in the Learning and Development of Children: Reflections from Educators (2020) also published with Information Age Publishing. She co-authored with Mary-Lou […]

Louisiana Book Festival Nov. 2

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm State Capitol, House Committee Room 2 Coming of Age: Exploring Otherness in Fiction with Dawn Major, Karen Spears Zacharias, Susan Beckham Zurenda, and moderator Mary McMyne 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm Cavalier House Books Tent Book Signing DAWN MAJOR 2024 GA Author of the Year Finalist for Best First Novel – The Bystanders Author Website: www.dawnmajor.com

Jeanne Malmgren

Jeanne Malmgren is an author and psychotherapist. For twenty years, she was an award-winning feature writer and editor at the Tampa Bay Times. She co-authored Journey to Mindfulness (Wisdom Publications, 2017), the autobiography of her spiritual teacher. More recently her writing has appeared in literary magazines such as Hippocampus and Streetlight, as well as her […]

Denise S. Robbins

Denise S. Robbins is a Pushcart-nominated author from Madison, Wisconsin. Her debut novel, The Unmapping, will be published with Bindery Books in June 2025. Her interviews and writing have also appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Creative Independent, Gulf Coast Journal, The Normal School, Barcelona Review, and more.

James Calemine 

James Calemine’s books include The Local Stranger, Insured Beyond The Grave, Insured Beyond The Grave Vol. 2, The Road To Hell and Ghostland America. His essay about the Georgia Sea Island Singers earned a place in the Smithsonian’s “New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots” tour. A prolific author of essays, interviews and his signature dispatches, Calemine’s […]

Bradley Sides

Bradley Sides is the author of two short story collections, Those Fantastic Lives and Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood. His fiction appears at BULL, Ghost Parachute, Necessary Fiction, Psychopomp, Superstition Review, and elsewhere. His stories have been nominated for Year’s Best Weird Fiction and featured on LeVar Burton Reads. Bradley holds an MFA from […]