LA Times Festival of Books 2019

Ramírez is a Mexican-Colombian writer, critic and performance poet based in Pittsburgh. She won the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize in 2015 for her novella-length work of nonfiction, "Dead Boys." Her full-length work of nonfiction, "The Violence," is forthcoming from... Read More →

Sarah McColl was founding editor-in-chief of Yahoo Food and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her essays have appeared in the Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, McSweeney's, and elsewhere, and she has been a MacDowell Fellow and Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives in Los Angeles... Read More →

Suzannah Lessard was a staff writer for The New Yorker for 20 years and, before that, an editor at Washington Monthly. She is the author of the memoir "The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family." She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including... Read More →

Longtime All Things Considered commentator Marion Wink is the author of "First Comes Love," "The Glen Rock Book of the Dead," and seven other books. Her most recent book, "The Baltimore Book of the Dead," was released last October by Counterpoint Press. Her Bohemian Rhapsody column... Read More →