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Author2Author
Bill Kenower, Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, talks to writers of all genres about the books we write and the lives we lead, and how these two are one in the same.
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Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kate Hash
Send us Fan Mail Kate Hash is the author of Gracie Harris Is Under Construction and the writer behind the Substack newsletter It’s Been a Week. Born and raised…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Gary Goldstein
Send us Fan Mail Gary Goldstein is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. His previous novels include the romantic comedy "The Last Birthday Party," which…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Beth Weinhouse and David Galef
Send us Fan Mail David Galef has published over a dozen books, including the novel Flesh, the short story collection My Date with Neanderthal Woman, the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with James M. Scott
Send us Fan Mail James M. Scott is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Black Snow, Rampage, Target Tokyo, The War Below, and The Attack on the Liberty, and…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kathleen Fox
Send us Fan Mail Kathleen Fox is a wanderer, happiest when her van is packed, her dogs are snoring in the passenger seat, and the road ahead promises at least…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Molly Guptill Manning
Send us Fan Mail Molly Guptill Manning is a historian, curator, and professor at New York Law School. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller, When…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kerry Rae Connolly
Send us Fan Mail Kerry Rae Connolly is a writer, speaker, and advocate for care partners. She has spent over 30 years working with mission-driven…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Rasul T. Freelain
Send us Fan Mail Sgt. Rasul T. Freelain (Ret.) served twenty years with the Oak Park Police Department in Illinois. He is certified by CIT (Crisis Intervention…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Marie Hoy-Kenny
Send us Fan Mail Marie Hoy-Kenny’s work has been published in several literary publications, including Shadow Lab, trampset, Okay Donkey, and FlashBack…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Linda Kass
Send us Fan Mail LINDA KASS began her career as a magazine journalist and correspondent for regional and national publications. Along with her forthcoming…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Sarah Braunstein
Send us Fan Mail Sarah Braunstein's novel, Bad Animals, was published by W. W. Norton in March 2024 and described by Claire Luchette in the New York Times Book…
Author2AuthorAuthro2Author with Caroline Hallemann
Send us Fan Mail Caroline Hallemann is the Digital Director of Town & Country magazine, where she writes about culture, society, entertainment, and the world…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jill Rosenberg
Send us Fan Mail Jill Rosenberg is the author of NOW I'M PHOTOGENIC AND OTHER STORIES I TELL MYSELF (May 5, 2026; Black Lawrence Press), which is the winner of…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Claire Boyles
Send us Fan Mail Claire Boyles is a former sustainable farmer and a 2022 Whiting Award winner in fiction. Her debut novel, Appraisals, about a family of…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Sara Lippmann
Send us Fan Mail SARA LIPPMANN is the author of the novels Hidden River and Lech and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks. Her fiction has won the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Hilary Plattner
Send us Fan Mail Hilary Plattner is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her debut memoir, The Momma Puzzle, was shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writers…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Susan Wiggs
Send us Fan Mail Susan Wiggs is the author of more than fifty novels, including the beloved Lakeshore Chronicles series and the recent New York Times…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Tom Hindle
Send us Fan Mail Originally hailing from Leeds, Tom Hindle lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and daughter. He is the author of A Fatal Crossing, The Murder…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Liz Lazarus
Send us Fan Mail Liz Lazarus is an engineer by education, a consultant and business owner from experience, and an author given her passion to tell stories…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Robert B. McCaw
Send us Fan Mail Robert B. McCaw, a graduate of Georgetown University, served as a lieutenant in the US Army and earned a law degree from the University of…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Manil Suri
Send us Fan Mail Manil Suri is the internationally acclaimed author of The Death of Vishnu and other books. His work has been translated into twenty-seven…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Andrea Leeb
Send us Fan Mail Andrea Leeb is a writer and advocate living in Venice Beach, California. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, including…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Miranda Shulman
Send us Fan Mail Miranda Shulman attended Bard College, where she majored in human rights. Before pursuing a career in publishing, she worked at Planned…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jess Cannon
Send us Fan Mail Jess Cannon is the pseudonym of a failed academic who never made tenure but still manages to sleep great at night. She spends her days writing…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Melinda Leigh
Send us Fan Mail Melinda Leigh is the #1 Amazon Charts and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Echo Road, the She Can series, the Midnight series, the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jill Margaret Shulman
Send us Fan Mail College admissions expert Jill Margaret Shulman is the author of College Essay Confidence and College Admissions Cracked. The founder of In…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jay Neugeboren
Send us Fan Mail Jay Neugeboren is the author of 25 books, including five prize-winning novels (The Stolen Jew, Before My Life Began,1940, Poli: A Mexican Boy…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Corinne Sullivan
Send us Fan Mail Corinne Sullivan is the Senior News Editor at Cosmopolitan, where she covers celebrity and entertainment news. She graduated from Boston…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Judy Batalion
Send us Fan Mail Judy Batalion is a New York Times bestselling author of award-winning nonfiction and fiction. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Garrett Curbow
Send us Fan Mail Garrett Curbow is the author of the Daughter of Light trilogy, which was short-listed for the Publishers Weekly Selfies Award. He lives in…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Patricia Henley
Send us Fan Mail PATRICIA HENLEY taught in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Purdue University for 26 years. She is the author of three novels, five…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Sarvat Hasin
Send us Fan Mail Sarvat Hasin is a novelist and dramaturg from Pakistan. She has a masters in creative writing from the University of Oxford. Her first novel…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Mimi Nichter
Send us Fan Mail Mimi Nichter is an award-winning cultural anthropologist and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Ellen Meeropol
Send us Fan Mail Ellen Meeropol is the author of the forthcoming Sometimes an Island, a mosaic novel featuring a group of older women facing rebuilding after a…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jennifer Murphy
Send us Fan Mail Jennifer Murphy holds an MFA in painting from the University of Denver and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington. She…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Cameron West
Send us Fan Mail Cameron West was born in Chicago, married Rikki while working as a touring musician in Boston, and became a father while working as a…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Claire Heywood
Send us Fan Mail Claire Heywood is a scholar of the ancient world, with a BA in Classical Civilization and an MA in Ancient Visual and Material Culture from…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Reyna Marder Gentin
Send us Fan Mail REYNA MARDER GENTIN grew up on Long Island and attended Yale College and Yale Law School. A former criminal defense attorney, she is the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Rebecca Wolf
Send us Fan Mail Rebecca Wolf is a former journalist whose fiction and essays have appeared in many publications, including Apricity and Tablet. She is a…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Amy Meyerson
Send us Fan Mail Amy Meyerson is the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling The Bookshop of Yesterdays, The Imperfects, and The Love Scribe. Her…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Travis Baldree
Send us Fan Mail Travis Baldree is a full-time audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to hundreds of stories. Before that, he spent decades designing and…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Tara Moss
Send us Fan Mail Tara Moss is an internationally bestselling author, human rights activist, documentary and podcast host, and model. Her crime novels have been…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Alisa Kriegel
Send us Fan Mail Alisa Kriegel, PhD is a psychologist with a private practice in New York City, working with adults and couples. She is on a mission to give…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Suzanne Trauth
Send us Fan Mail Suzanne Trauth is a novelist and playwright. Her novels include What Remains of Love (a first-place winner in Women's Fiction, Firebird Book…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Sharon White
Send us Fan Mail Sharon White is an award-winning author whose work spans nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. She has written extensively about nature, place, and…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Anika Fajardo
Send us Fan Mail Anika has earned multiple awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board and from the Jerome Foundation, and her writing for adults and children…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Winnie M Li
Send us Fan Mail Winnie M Li is an American author and activist living in the UK with her partner and young son. A Harvard graduate, Winnie has written for…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Sue William Silverman
Send us Fan Mail Sue William Silverman is an award-winning author known for her fearless explorations of trauma, identity, and personal transformation. Her…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with H. Lee Barnes
Send us Fan Mail H. Lee Barnes is the author of ten books, including four novels and four short story collections. His short fiction has received the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Stephen Greenblatt
Send us Fan Mail Stephen Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He has written extensively on English…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kathy Watson
Send us Fan Mail Kathy Watson is a chef and author. But she wasn't always. Before opening her two restaurants and writing her first books, she spent twenty…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Stacy Waldman Bass
Send us Fan Mail Stacy has been capturing the essence of place through an intuitive use of light, color and composition for almost two decades. Her signature…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Melissa Fraterrigo
Send us Fan Mail Melissa Fraterrigo’s memoir, The Perils of Girlhood is published by the University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2025. She is also the author of…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jane Friedman
Send us Fan Mail Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Peter Rosch
Send us Fan Mail Peter Rosch is the author of multiple dark fictions born from the various addictions he chased while living in New York City as an…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Nikki Nash
Send us Fan Mail In her teens, Nikki Nash studied acting, took piano lessons, and wore a nun’s habit to buy alcohol so she wouldn’t get carded. She began…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Leigh Dunlap
Send us Fan Mail Leigh Dunlap is the screenwriter behind the hit movie, A Cinderella Story starring Hilary Duff. She also wrote Spy Girls, based on the popular…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Micah Thorp
Send us Fan Mail Micah Thorp is a physician, writer, and lifelong Oregonian. His research has been published in numerous medical journals, and his literary…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kate Hash
Send us Fan Mail Kate Hash is a Chapel Hill, NC-based debut novelist who enjoys creating and consuming stories about dynamic women, unexpected relationships…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Bernice L. McFadden
Send us Fan Mail Bernice L. McFadden is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University and the author of several critically acclaimed novels…