LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Scott O’Connor is the author of A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories, the novels Untouchable and Half World and the novella Among Wolves. He has been awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and his stories have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/EFG Story... Read More →

Esi Edugyan is the author of the novels "The Second Life of Samuel Tyne" and "Half-Blood Blues," which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Orange Prize... Read More →

Christian Kiefer is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for his short fiction and is also the author of "The Animals" and "Infinite Tides." He holds a Ph.D. in American literature from the University of California at Davis and has served as contributing editor for Zyzzyva and as fiction... Read More →

Crystal Hana Kim's debut novel "If You Leave Me" was named a best book of 2018 by The Washington Post, Booklist, Literary Hub, Cosmopolitan, and others. It was also longlisted for the Center for Fiction Novel Prize. She was a 2017 PEN America Dau Short Story Prize winner and has received... Read More →