LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Melissa Chadburn has written for NYTBR, Buzzfeed, Poets & Writers, American Public Media's Marketplace, and dozens other places. She is a contributing editor for The Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She is Editor-At-Large for DAME Magazine. Her essay, "The Throwaways," received notable mention in Best American Essays and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her debut novel, "A Tiny Upward Shove," is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux... Read More →

Aja's short fiction can be found in New England Review, New Ohio Review, Glimmer Train, BOMB, and elsewhere. Her lyric essay, "The Sparrows in France," appeared in Kenyon Review and earned her an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2015. She has taught fiction, non-fiction... Read More →

Michael Knight is the author of the novels" The Typist" and "Divining Rod;" the short-story collections "Dogfight and Other Stories," "Eveningland," and "Goodnight, Nobody;" and the novella "The Holiday Season." His latest book, "At Briarwood School For Girls," was released this month... Read More →

Victoria Redel is the author of five books of fiction: "Before Everything," "Make Me Do Things," "The Border of Truth," "Loverboy" and "Where the Road Bottoms Out" and three books of poetry: "Woman Without Umbrella," "Swoon," and "Already the World." Redel has taught writing at Columbia... Read More →