Michael Blanchard is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent of which is The Pearl Diver’s Daughter and Other Poems (2023). A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he now lives in the Cadron Valley of Arkansas, where he teaches at the University of Central Arkansas and edits SLANT, the university’s international journal of contemporary poetry. […]
Dr. Kelly Kolodny
October 21, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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
October 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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
October 14, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Jeanne Malmgren is a Pushcart Prize-nominated author whose writing appeared in magazines and newspapers nationwide during her 20-year career as a journalist at the Tampa Bay Times. She is the author of Good Eye, Bad Eye: A Memoir of Trauma and Truth, the searing story of her childhood injury, which Kirkus Reviews called “a fresh, […]
Denise S. Robbins
September 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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
August 20, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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 […]