The Authors

These authors are confirmed to attend the 2008 Southern Festival of Books

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  • Karen Abbott worked as a journalist on the staffs of Philadelphia magazine and Philadelphia Weekly, and has written for Salon.com and other publications. A native of Philadelphia, she now lives with her husband in Atlanta, where she's at work on her next book. Visit her online at www.sininthesecondcity.com. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for the American Soul Presentation: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Room 16; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Lorraine Adams is a novelist, critic and Pulitzer-prize winning writer. Her new novel, The Room & the Chair, set in Washington, Iran and Afghanistan, is upcoming next year from Knopf. Harbor won the 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction, was a finalist for the Orange and Guardian First Book prizes in the U.K., was a New York Times Best Book, a Washington Post Notable Book and Entertainment Weekly's Best Novel of the Year. Adams is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and Bookforum. Harbor Panel: Saturday, 9:00-11:00 am, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • William M. Akers has had three feature films produced from his screenplays. Akers has written scripts, series television, and documentaries for the MGM, Disney, and Universal Studios, as well as Fox, NBC, ABC, TNN television networks. Currently, his script about the fall of Saigon is under option to Overture Studios with director Jon Amiel. He teaches screenwriting and filmmaking at Vanderbilt University. Author website: www.yourscreenplaysucks.com. Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 Ways to Make It Great Panel: Sunday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Sunday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Dan Albergotti is coordinator of Creative Writing at Coastal Carolina University where he teaches creative writing and literature. He was poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, and has been published in Cincinati Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and others. The Boatloads Panel: Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Sherman Alexie was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and has been lauded by the Boston Globe as "an important voice in American literature." Sherman Alexie is one of the most well known and beloved literary writers of his generation. His five works of fiction have received numerous awards and citations, including the PEN/Malamud Award for Fiction and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and have been translated into eleven languages. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Sign: Saturday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade; Presentation: Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium
  • Joel Anderson is president and co-founder of Anderson Thomas Design. He has published six children's books, and has several other titles in the works. He enjoys writing,illustrating, designing and collaborating with other talented folks to create new books and products. The Spirit of Nashville Presentation: Saturday, 11:00-12:00 noon, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 12:00-12:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Sheg Aranmolate is a finalist in the Oprah's Big Give contest. iActuate:100 Days of Inspiration Panel: Saturday, 3:00-4:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Chip Arnold was one of the founding members of the acting company for The Advent Theatre, the first Equity theatre company in Nashville, Tennessee. His original film trilogy, "The Word Made Flesh," received two first place awards at the Houston International Film Festival and the Columbus International Film Festival. He co-wrote and produced the film The Second Chance starring Michael W. Smith distributed by Sony Entertainment. He wrote the screenplay for the first authorized film documentary on evangelist Billy Graham, God's Ambassador. His has written 156 episodes of the children's show, Backyard Time, produced and distributed by the United Methodist Publishing House. He co-wrote and produced the documentary film Kabul-24 for Sea Bourne Pictures based on the story of the capture and escape of eight western aid workers by the Taliban. Hometown Favorite Presentation: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Darnell Arnoult is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in Southwest Review, Southern Cultures, Southern Exposure, Asheville Poetry Review, and Nantahala Review, among other journals. She lives with her husband on a small farm outside Nashville, Tennessee, and teaches creative writing throughout the Southeast. Sufficient Grace: A Novel Panel: Friday, 3:30-4:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Friday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Mike Artell lives in Covington, Louisiana. He is an award-winning author, illustrator, TV cartoonist, conference speaker, musician and humorist. He is a member of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. Three Little Cajun Pigs Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:30 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Squire Babcock is Associate Professor of English at Murray State University, where he has taught English and creative writing for 16 years and heads up the low-residency MFA program in creative writing. His creative work has appeared in newspapers and journals including The Old Hickory Review, Colorado Review and Louisville Review. The King of Gaheena, a Novel Panel: Sunday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Sunday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Houston A. Baker is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He has served as Editor of American Literature, the oldest and most prestigious journal in American Literary Studies. Professor Baker began his career as a scholar of British Victorian Literature, but made a career shift to the study of Afro-American Literature and Culture. He has published or edited more than twenty books. He is the author of more than eighty articles, essays, and reviews. His honors include Guggenheim, John Hay Whitney, and Rockefeller Fellowships, as well as a number of honorary degrees from American colleges and universities. Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era Presentation: Sunday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Sunday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Neil Baldwin was the founding executive director of the National Book Foundation from 1989-2003. He is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Arts at Montclair State University. He is the author of many books of biography and nonfiction including most recently Henry Ford and the Jews, The American Revelation, and To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, the Doctor Poet. His web site is www.neilbaldwinbooks.com To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, The Doctor Poet Panel: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Sunday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Pat Ballard writes motivational romance novels and stories with Big Beautiful Heroines, and speaks to aspiring writers about self-publishing and commercial trade publishing. 10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What Size You Are) Panel: Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • KB Ballentine teaches English and theatre arts to high school and college students when she's not writing. She receivd a 2007 prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. Gathering Stones Panel: Saturday, 9:30-10:30 am, Capitol Library; Sign: Saturday, 10:30-11:00 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Mary Brigid Barrett is a children's book author and illustrator; a professional educator; and the founder, president, and executive director of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance (NCBLA). She has won numerous awards for her books, including an Oppenheim Gold Award and the National Storyteller's Association's "Best Book of the Year" award. Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out Panel: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Tracy Barrett is the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books for young readers. Tracy is the Midsouth Regional Advisor for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). She was awarded an NEH grant in 1994 and the SCBWI Work-in-Progress Grant in 2005. She holds a BA in Classics from Brown University, and an MA and PhD in Italian literature from the University of California at Berkeley. The Sherlock Files: The 100-Year-Old Secret Panel: Saturday, 4:30-5:30 pm, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 5:30-6:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bill Barton travels the world as a business partner with three companies that develop and sell products to nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and large retailers. He received his MBA from Baylor University. He makes time to satisfy the adventure junkie inside-whether it's hiking, mountain biking, or taking frequent family camping trips to the nearby lakes and mountains. He is an avid football fan and can be found at the stadium anytime the lights are on. Hometown Favorite Presentation: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Richard Bausch is the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, the Best American Short Story Prize, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Peace Presentation: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Sunday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Donald Beagle is director of library services at Belmont Abbey College in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the curator of the Father Ryan archive. His many articles have appeared in journals such as Catholic Library World, Journal of Academic Librarianship and Libri: International Library Review. Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan Presentation: Sunday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Friday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Geoffrey Becker is the author of Dangerous Men, a collection of short stories which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and Bluestown, a novel. A past winner of an NEA fellowship, the Nelson Algren Award, and the GLCA prize for best first book of fiction, his stories have appeared in many literary magazines, and been reprinted in anthologies including The Best American Short Stories. He lives in Baltimore and teaches at Towson University. Hot Springs Panel: Saturday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Capitol Library
  • Don Beisswenger, a Presbyterian pastor, was a professor at Vanderbilt University Divinity School for almost thirty years. Since 1996 he has given his time to working with the poor and oppressed in Nashville and in Central and South America. After nearly fifty years of marriage, his wife Joyce died. He later married Judith Pilgrim, one of his staunchest supporters during his incarceration. Locked Up: Letters and Papers of a Prisoner of Conscience Panel: Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Friday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Madison Smartt Bell is the author of twelve novels and two collections of stories. All Souls' Rising was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. A professor of English and the director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College, Bell lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his family. Toussaint Louverture: A Biography Presentation: Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 16; Sign: Friday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Jennie Bentley is the author of the new series of Do-It-Yourself Home Renovation mysteries from Penguin/Berkley Prime Crime. Book 1, FatalL Fixer-Upper, is due in stores November 4th, 2008. The real Jennie is a realtor and renovator in Nashville, where she lives with a husband and two rambunctious boys, a hyperactive dog, a parakeet, and a carnival goldfish. A native of Norway, she's been living in the US for the past twenty years, and still hasn't been able to kick her native accent. Fatal Fixer-Upper Panel: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Sunday, 1:30-2:00 pm, Signing Colonnade; Panel: Saturday, 9:00-10:00 am, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 10:00-10:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Andre Bergeron is a housing attorney for a civil legal services firm in Kentucky. This is his first novel. The Devil's Ridge Panel: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Lynne Berry graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in Biology and from Vanderbilt University with a PhD in Cell Biology. She left the world of petri dishes and microscopes in 1997 to write for children. Her first book, Duck Skates, was called "A lovely treat for the lap-sit crowd" by Booklist. Duck Dunks Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:30 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Beverly Bond is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the College of Arts and Sciences interdisciplinary African and African-American Studies program at the University of Memphis. She has published several books and has received multiple awards for her outstanding teaching. Tennessee Women:Their Lives and Times Panel: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Melanie Sue Bowles, with her husband, Jim, is the founder of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, now located in Mena, Arkansas. More than 150 abused, neglected, elderly and unwanted horses have come there to live in peace and safety. www.horsesofproudspirit.com Hoof Prints: More Stories from Proud Spirit Panel: Sunday, 3:30-4:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Sunday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Philip Brady is a professor of English at Youngstown University, where he directs the Poetry Center and Etruscan Press. He is the author of three books of poetry and plays in Brady's Leap, a New-Celtic Band. By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard Presentation: Sunday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Sunday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Rick Bragg has written two bestselling memoirs and is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. The Prince of Frogtown Presentation: Saturday, 3:30-4:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium; Sign: Saturday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Earl S. Braggs is a UC Foundation Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and spends a lot of time in Memphis. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Connecticut Review. his novel-in-progress won the Jack Kerouac Prize in Fiction and was a finest in the James Jones First Novel Contest. Crossing Tecumseh Street Panel: Sunday, 2:30-4:30 pm, Room 16; Sign: Sunday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Geoffrey Brock is a poet and translator who has received poetry fellowships from the NEA, the American Antiquarian Society, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Florida Arts Council. He has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow, and his work was included in Best American Poetry 2007. He lives with his wife, the writer Padma Viswanathan, and their children in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Weighing Light Panel: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Matt Bronleewe is a recognized producer, songwriter and author. The former member of the band Jars of Clay, has earned numerous awards producing and co-writing albums that have sold a combined total of over 20-million copies. House of Wolves Panel: Friday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Room 16; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bill Brown is a part-time lecturer at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. He is the author of three poetry collections, three chapbooks and a textbook. Winner of many writing awards and fellowships, his new work appears in North American Review, Louisville Review, South Carolina Review, Prairie Schooner, English Journal, and the 50th Anniversary Anthology of Southern Poetry Review. Origins, Destinations, and Intersections; Late Winter Panel: Sunday, 2:30-4:30 pm, Room 16; Sign: Sunday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Mary Buckner's first novel, Hyperthought, was nominated for the 2003 Philip K. Dick Award for distinguished science fiction. As marketing vice president for a nationwide financial firm, her writing earned two Diamond Addy Awards. She is currently a freelance writer, environmental activist, and ardent whitewater kayaker. She recently authored a major research report for the World Wildlife Fund and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Watermind Panel: Friday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Shannon Burke is the author of Safelight and has worked as a paramedic in Harlem. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. Black Flies Panel: Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Friday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Chester Campbell has been involved in writing for over fifty years — newspapers, magazines, public relations, advertising. His novel, Secret of the Scroll, first in the Greg McKenzie Mystery Series, was published in 2002. His second, Designed to Kill, was released in 2004. He lives in Madison, Tennessee and is a member of Sisters in Crime. The Marathon Murders Panel: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Sunday, 1:30-2:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Jo Carson, the versatile author of plays, poems, short stories, and essays, has also written the ALA "Best Book for Young Adults," Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet and, most recently, a picture book called Pulling My Leg. A permanent resident of Johnson City, Tennessee, Carson has toured this country and others as a performer and has been a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Teller Tales: What Sweet Lips Can Do and Men of Their Time Perform: Sunday, 2:30-3:30 pm, Café Stage; Sign: Sunday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, where he has taught since 1982. He and his family live near New Haven, Connecticut. Palace Council Presentation: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, House Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Tom Chaffin is the author of Sea of Gray and Pathfinder. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, Time, and other publications. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is on the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy Panel: Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Friday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Marshall Chapman is a rocker-singer-songwriter who has been turning her attention to prose of late. Her first book, Goodbye Little Rock and Roller, was a 2004 SEBA bestseller, and Southern Book Critics Circle Award and SEBA Book Award finalist. She is currently writing for Garden & Gun magazine and working on a new book called They Came to Nashville. She has released ten critically acclaimed albums and her songs have been recorded by Emmylou Harris, Jimmy Buffett, Irma Thomas, Joe Cocker, Wynonna, John Hiatt, Jessi Colter, and so on. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Goodbye Little Rock and Roller Panel: Saturday, 3:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers; Panel: Saturday, 1:00-2:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium; Sign: Saturday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade; Sign: Saturday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Sigourney Cheek earned a bachelor's degree in art history from Manhattanville College and studied on the graduate level at Vanderbilt University. Active for many years in the Nashville fine arts committee, she has served as chair of numerous events and on boards for arts and service organizations in the community. She conducts writing workshops for women in recovery at Magdalene House. She and her husband, James H. Cheek III, reside in Nashville; they have three sons and two grandchildren. Patient Siggy: Hope and Healing in Cyberspace Panel: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • James Cherry is the author of Shadow of Light, a newly released novel from Serpent's Tail Press, and Honoring the Ancestors, a collection of poetry published this year from Third World Press. He is also a member of the Tennessee Arts Commission's Artist in Education Roster. His web address is jamesEcherry.com. Shadow of Light Panel: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Jim A. Clark lives in Wilson, North Carolina, where he is Elizabeth H. Jordan Professor of Southern Literature and Writer in Residence at Barton College. He is also an editor of Crucible. Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany Perform: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Café Stage
  • Martin Clark is the author of The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award. His second novel, Plain Heathen Mischief, prompted the Charlotte Observer to call him "a rising star in American Letters." A circuit court judge, he lives in Stuart, Virginia, with his wife, Deana. The Legal Limit Panel: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • James Conaway is the editor-at-large of Preservation magazine and writes for many other publications. He is the author of ten previous books, most recently The Far Side of Eden: New Money, Old Land, and the Battle for Napa Valley. He lives in Washington, DC. Vanishing America: In Pursuit of Our Elusive Landscapes Panel: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Thomas H. Cook is the author of twenty-one novels and two works of nonfiction. He has been nominated for the Edgar Award seven times in five different categories, including Best Novel for Red Leaves, which was also nominated for the British Crime Writers' Association's Duncan Lawrie Dagger and won the Barry for Best Novel. The Chatham School Affair won the Edgar for Best Novel. He lives in New York City and Cape Cod. Master of the Delta Presentation: Saturday, 11:00-12:00 noon, Room 16; Sign: Saturday, 12:00-12:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Peter Cozzens is an independent scholar and Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. He is author or editor of nine highly acclaimed Civil War books, including The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth (from the University of North Carolina Press). Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign Presentation: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Sunday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Katie Crouch grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, where she attended Cotillin but, for various reasons, never made it into the debutante program. She studied writing at Brown and Columbia and now lives in San Francisco. Girls in Trucks Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:00 noon, Senate Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-12:00 noon, Signing Colonnade
  • Ashley Crownover is a program administrator for the Vanderbilt University American Studies and Film Studies programs. This is her first novel. Wealtheow: Her Telling of Beowulf Panel: Saturday, 9:00-11:00 am, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • William Croyle is a journalist with the Cincinnati Enquirer and a volunteer with various community organizations. He resides in Erlanger, Kentucky. with his wife and three sons. I Choose to Be Happy: A School Shooting Survivor's Triumph Over Tragedy Presentation: Saturday, 10:30-11:30 am, Capitol Library; Sign: Saturday, 11:30-12:00 noon, Signing Colonnade
  • Don Cusic is a professor of music business at Belmont University in Nashville. He has been actively involved in the music business since 1973 as an author, teacher, historian, musician, songwriter, and executive. His jobs in the music industry have included working as a staff writer for the Country Music Association, head of Artist Development and International Liaison for Monument Records, Nashville editor for Contemporary Christian Music Magazine, and also serving on the Board of Directors for the Gospel Music Association. Panel: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Jean-Philippe Cypres is an award-winning photographer who grew up and was educated in Paris, France. He operates a commercial photography studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was the photographer for Women of Coal. Highway 61: Heart of the Delta Panel: Sunday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Sunday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Hugh Davis is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the coeditor, with Michael Lofaro, of James Agee Rediscovered: The Journals of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Other New Manuscripts and is the associate general editor of the projected ten-volume scholarly edition of The Works of James Agee. The Making of James Agee Panel: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Sunday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Melissa Delbridge, called "honest, funny, and fiercely Southern" by Poets & Writers Magazine, has won awards from The Southern Humanities Review and the Southern Women Writers Conference for her nonfiction and fiction. A native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, she works as an archivist at Duke University. In her essay collection, Family Bible (University of Iowa Press, 2008), she explores themes of race, gender, and sexuality as they impacted her life in the 1960s and 1970s. Family Bible Panel: Saturday, 4:30-5:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 5:30-6:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Tom Delvaux, who live in Franklin, Tennessee, has worked as a writer in marketing and corporate communications for almost twenty years. His first book, Tiger Joe: A Photographic Diary of a World War II Aerial Reconnaissance Pilot, was published in 2006 and distributed by The University of Tennessee Press. Four Stars in the Window Panel: Sunday, 3:00-4:30 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Sunday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Stephen Doster was born in England and raised on St. Simons Island, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1983 and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he works at Vanderbilt University. Voices from St. Simons: Personal Narratives of an Island's Past Panel: Sunday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Sunday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Larry Dowell's skills in fine arts, graphic arts, web/multimedia design, photography, and writing have earned him a number of awards. He traveled across Europe collecting tidbits and creative inspiration for The Ghost of Hampton Court, which he illustrated and his wife Martha Hannah wrote. The Ghost of Hampton Court Panel: Saturday, 12:30-2:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Gerald Duff is a native of the Texas Gulf Coast, has taught literature and writing at Vanderbilt University, Kenyon College, and Johns Hopkins University. His novels have been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the International eBook Award, and the Texas Institute of Letters Award. He has published two collections of poetry — A Ceremony of Light and Calling Collect — and six novels, including Indian Giver, That's All Right, Mama: The Unauthorized Life of Elvis's Twin, Memphis Ribs, and Coasters. Fire Ants Panel: Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Friday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade; Panel: Friday, 3:30-4:30 pm, Senate Chambers
  • Elizabeth Dulemba is an award-winning illustrator of several children's books. She received a BFA in graphic design from the University of Georgia. She drew a portrait of Master Storyteller Ray Hicks one year while listening to him share some Jack Tales, and that experience solidified her love for all things Appalachian and Jack Tales in particular. She also enjoys teaching at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Paco and the Giant Chile Plant Panel: Saturday, 12:30-2:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade; Perform: Saturday, 9:30-10:00 am, Children's Stage
  • Ted Dunagan was born in 1943 in rural southwestern Alabama. He attended Georgia State University, and served for three years in the Army as a member of the 101st Airborne Division and Special Forces Training Group. Dunagan is now retired after a career in the cosmetics and fragrance industry. He writes features and columns for The Monticello News in Monticello, Georgia, where he lives with his wife. A Yellow Watermelon Panel: Saturday, 9:00-11:00 am, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Barbara R. Duncan is education director at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina. She received the 2008 Brown-Hudson Award from the North Carolina Folklife Society. The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee Panel: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Sunday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Frank Durham is a retired member of the faculty of Tulane University. He crafted his writing as a member of the Sewanee Writer's Conference. He lives in Uptown New Orleans, "keeping his eyes and ears open." This is his debut novel. Cain's Version Panel: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Tony Earley is the author of five books. A winner of a National Magazine Award for fiction, he was named one of the twenty best writers of his generation by both Granta, in 1996, and The New Yorker, in 1999. His fiction and/or nonfiction have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, The New Yorker, The Oxford American, The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South and many other magazines and anthologies. He is a native of western North Carolina and a graduate of Warren Wilson College and The University of Alabama. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and daughter, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. The Blue Star Presentation: Friday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 16; Sign: Friday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Clyde Edgerton is the author of seven bestsellers, including, Raney, Walking Across Egypt, and Where Trouble Sleeps. Five of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books. A musician and songwriter, he lives with his wife, Kristina, and their children in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he is a professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The Bible Salesman Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium; Presentation: Friday, 1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade; Sign: Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Peggy Elam is a licensed psychologist, licensed massage therapist, healer, journalist, poet, artist, and founder of Pearlsong Press. She lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. Panel: Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Susannah Felts is a writer, editor and teacher with roots in Nashville, Tennessee. Her writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including McSweeney's, Another Chicago Magazine, Quarterly West, Pindeldyboz, The Sun, the Chicago Reader and others. This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record Panel: Sunday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Sunday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Jack Ferraiolo is the writer and developer of the animated series WordGirl for PBS. He was also an editor and producer of Home Movies for Cartoon Network and O'Grady for The N. This is his first book. He lives with his wife and young daughter in northern Massachusetts. The Big Splash Panel: Saturday, 12:30-2:00 pm, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Whitney Ferre has helped hundreds of people to find their creativity as founder of The Creative Fitness Center (creative-ly-fit.com). The Center first gained national recognition on HGTV. Today she continues her outreach leading corporate seminars, teaching art classes and is a creativity expert on HGTV, and DIY networks. Whitney is also an artist, a wife, a mother, and a co-owner of wine bars that build communities around food, wine and art (rumourswinebar.com). She lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee. The Artist Within Presentation: Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Friday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bob Fisher has previously served at universities in the roles of professor, business school dean and vice president of academic affairs and currently serves as president of Belmont University in Nashville. He is a Fulbright Scholar and serves in numerous volunteer roles including the board of Nashville Symphony and as immediate past chair of the Greater Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Life is a Gift: Inspiration from the Soon Departed Presentation: Saturday, 11:00-12:00 noon, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 12:00-12:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Judy Fisher has filled the roles of mother, middle school science teacher and currently, the campus-wide coordinator of interior construction and exterior landscaping/lighting at Belmont University. With her husband, Bob Fisher, she conducted 104 interviews with Alive Hospice patients that form the foundation of this book. Life is a Gift: Inspiration from the Soon Departed Presentation: Saturday, 11:00-12:00 noon, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 12:00-12:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Wilmoth Foreman has an MFA in writing from Vermont College. She is a newspaper columnist and an Artist in Residence for the Tennessee Arts Commission. Her first novel was on the 2006 Volunteer State Master Reading List and was named a TriState (PA, DE, NJ) Young Adult Book of Note. Kirkus Reviews dubbed it "warmly, quitely memorable." Summer of the Skunks Panel: Saturday, 9:00-11:00 am, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Cindy G. Foust is the president and author of Alpha-kidZ. She has released twelve children's books featuring the letters A-L, and she will release fourteen more books (featuring the remaining fourteen letters) in Spring of 2009. She has traveled extensively, presenting to more than 400 schools and libraries during an eighteen-city book tour. She is a member of the Publisher's Association of the South, the Association for Children's Book Authors and Illustrators, the Southeast Book Seller's Association, and the Northeast Louisiana Reading/International Reading Association. Author website: www.alphakidz.com. Alpha-kidZ: Reading Adventures A-Z Presentation: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Angela Fox is a wife, mother, writer, and lover of all things creative … and all things covered with chocolate! She is the founder of www.creativedayCafé .com, a resource offering creative inspiration to artists and creative-hopefuls. As a freelance writer her articles have appeared in Christian Retailing, Giftware News, Inspirational Giftware, and various Christian publications. She also writes a weekly newspaper column in the Franklin Review Appeal and is putting the finishing touches on her first novel. Angela, her husband Jerry and son, Brayden, reside in Franklin, Tennessee. Chocolate Covered Friendship Presentation: Friday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Food Stage
  • Alice Friman's recent poetry, The Book of the Rotten Daughter, was published by BkMk Press, 2006. Her book Zoo won the Ezra Pound Poetry Award from Truman State and the Motton Prize from the New English Poetry Club. Inverted Fire appeared in 1997, also from BkMk. She has received fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission and the Arts Council of Indianapolis. Shanandoah awarded Friman the 2002 Boatwright Prize. Friman is now Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College and State University. Her next volume of poetry, Vinculum, is forthcoming from LSU Press. TheE Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion Panel: Saturday, 11:30-12:30 pm, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • David Fuller has been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. He spent eight years researching Sweetsmoke, his first novel, and along the way discovered that he had ancestors who fought on both sides of the Civil War. Fuller lives in Los Angeles with his wife and twin sons. Sweetsmoke Panel: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Lise Funderburg is a Philadelphia-based writer with roots in Jasper County, Georgia, both of which areas are explored in her memoir, Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home. Her book is a meditation on race, filial duty, and barbecue, and it is a story for our time as the vast baby boom generation cares for aging parents and wrestles with the inevitability of death." Pig Candy Panel: Sunday, 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Sunday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Betty Fussell is the author of ten previous books, including The Story of Corn and My Kitchen Wars. A contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, Saveur, Food & Wine, Gastronomica, and other publications, she has also lectured widely on food history. Western born, she lives in New York City. Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef Presentation: Sunday, 1:30-2:30 pm, Food Stage; Sign: Sunday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Frye Gaillard is the writer-in-residence in the English and history departments at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of twenty books, including Cradle of Freedom, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award; The Dream Long Deferred, winner of the Gustavus Myers Award; and If I Were a Carpenter, the first independent, book-length study of Habitat for Humanity. With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions Presentation: Sunday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Sunday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Kay Gardiner learned to knit as a child, but put aside her needles for twenty years to obtain a law degree from Columbia, become an assistant United States attorney in Manhattan, and start a family. Luckily for us, she returned to knitting with a vengeance. She is one-half of the knitting team at masondixonknitting.com. Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too Presentation: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Kip Gayden has been a sitting circuirt court judge in Tennessee since 1974. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, he serves on the board of Vanderbilt University Club. He lives in Nashville. This is his second novel. Miscarriage of Justice Panel: Friday, 1:00-2:30 pm, Room 31; Sign: Friday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Dan Gediman is the producer of the National Public Radio series This I Believe. This I Believe Panel: Sunday, 1:00-2:30 pm, Room 16; Sign: Sunday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Charles "Father Goose" Ghigna is the author of more than thirty award-winning books of poetry for children and adults. His books have been featured on Good Morning America and The Rosie O'Donnell Show and have been selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club. SCORE! 50 Poems to Motivate and Inspire Presentation: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bryan Giemza is currently the postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Carolina's Institute for Southern Studies. He is the assistant editor of Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, and his articles on American literature have appeared in a variety of journals. Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan Presentation: Sunday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Friday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • David Macinnis Gill's stories have appeared in several magazines, and his biography of Graham Salisbury was published by Scarecrow Press. He holds a bachelor's in English and a doctorate in Education from the University of Tennessee. He is the president of ALAN (The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) and an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Soul Enchilada Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:30 pm, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Susan Gregg Gilmore has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and three daughters. This is her first novel. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:00 noon, Senate Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-12:00 noon, Signing Colonnade
  • Ted Gioia is an authority on jazz and roots music and the founder and editor of jazz.com. He has recorded several CDs as a pianist and composer and is the author of five highly regarded books on jazz and roots music. He lives in Plano, Texas. Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized the Blues Panel: Friday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Friday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Michael Glasgow is the author of The Bridge — Murder, Intrigue, and a Struggle for Justice in Nicaragua. He is also the co-author of An Unfinished Canvas: A True Story of Love, Family, and Murder in Nashville. Glasgow is a native of Nashville, and holds a BA degree from Vanderbilt University and a JD degree from the University of Tennessee. The Bridge — Murder, Intrigue, and a Struggle for Justice in Nicaragua Presentation: Friday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Friday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Alan Gratz has written plays, articles, more than 6,000 radio commercials, and a few episodes of A&E's City Confidential. He grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and daughter. Something Wicked Panel: Saturday, 4:30-5:30 pm, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 5:30-6:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Tom Graves is the former editor of Rock & Roll Disc magazine and now teaches at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee. He wrote the acclaimed novel Pullers and has written numerous articles and criticism for Rolling Stone, Musician, The Oxford American, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, American History, and The New Leader. He is currently working on a drama based on the infamous 1968 debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson Panel: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Sunday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • John Guider was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in mechanical engineering. He later studied photography with Ernst Hass and Jay Maisel. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Nashville chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and the Nashville Advertising Federation. In 1996, John was presented Nashville's Community Service Award for his work in helping to establish a youth outreach program for the Metropolitan Police Department. He currently resides in Tennessee with his wife, Mona at his 1850s federal house in the historic Edgefield community in Nashville. The River Inside Presentation: Friday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Michael Gunter is a professor of political science at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. The Kurds Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem in Iraq and Turkey Presentation: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Adam Gussow is the rare academic who lives the life of a bluesman. An accomplished harmonica player, recording artist, and journalist, he is assistant professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Live from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York Panel: Friday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Friday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade; Perform: Friday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Café Stage
  • Hadji wrote, directed, and starred in the film Somebodies, which had its premiere at Sundance in 2006. A series based on Somebodies, also written by, directed by, starring, and executive-produced by Hadjii, is slated to appear on BET, the first original sitcom ever to appear on that network. Don't Let My Mama Read This Presentation: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 16; Sign: Saturday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Pat Haney is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter from Western Kentucky, and a unique and thought-provoking storyteller that lovers of Americana music and southern literature are sure to adore. When asked to explain the inspiration behind the title track of Haney's second album Ghost of Things to Come, he calmly replied, "I heard this baby cryin' in a gas station in Montana and immediately thought of Charles Dickens." Perform: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Café Stage
  • Martha Hannah is a nationally acclaimed performing artist, author and educator who has delighted audiences with her performances for more than twenty years. She brings the Middle Ages and Renaissance to life through her character, Maid Martha. The Ghost of Hampton Court Panel: Saturday, 12:30-2:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade; Perform: Sunday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Children's Stage
  • Robert Earl Hardy has been a professional writer and editor with an interest in contemporary music for twenty-five years. Also a musician, he has played guitar in bands since the 1970s. He is currently researching the cultural history of 1960s and 70s garage bands. He lives in Laurel, Maryland. A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt Panel: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Sunday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Linda Lee Harper lives in Augusta, Georgia, born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her BA and MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She taught there, University of Tennessee-Knoxville's Continuing Education program and at the University of South Carolina-Aiken.Her work has appeared most recently in: The Georgia Review, Nimrod, The Seneca Review, Rattle, and eighty-five other journals. Her manuscript, Kiss Kiss, was selected as the winner in Cleveland State University Poetry Center's Open Competition for 2007 and is forthcoming in 2008. She currently is working on a collection of short stories and a third poetry collection at her home on Lake Murray, South Carolina, where she never, ever goes fishing. Kiss, Kiss Panel: Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Crawford Harris has served as executive director of nonprofit advocacy organizations for the mentally ill and as a field director for the National Institute of Mental Health. Why Are You Mad? The First Significant Advance in Our Understanding of Mental Illness Since We Abandoned Demon Possession Presentation: Sunday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Sunday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Barbara Hart has been writing songs for most of her life. While living in Nashville she earned a Grammy nomination for work on a collection of lullabies. She has also been nominated for two Emmys for her work creating clever "answers" for the television game show Jeopardy! The Adventures of Octopus Rex Perform: Saturday, 10:30-11:30 am, Children's Stage
  • Camille Moffitt Headley wrote the story of the Bell Witch with the help of the Kirby family, owners of the cave. Bell Witch: The Truth Exposed Panel: Sunday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Sunday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Marti Healy has served as a senior copywriter for The Design Group, Inc. since 1976. She developed a pet ministry program that is used by a variety of denominations throughout the country. She lives in Aiken, South Carolina. The God Dog Connection Presentation: Saturday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Gerald Helferich is a former editor and publisher, most recently as Vice-President and Publisher of General Interest Books at Wiley. He is the author of Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Epic Journey of Discovery that Changed the Way We See the World. He lives with his wife, Teresa (a native Mississippian), in San Miguel, Mexico, and Yazoo City, Mississippi. High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta Panel: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Rob Heller is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee. He teaches photojournalism and graphic design and is the author of More Than the Game: The Tennessee Football Experience. Living On: Portraits of Tennessee Survivors and Liberators Presentation: Sunday, 1:30-2:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Sunday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Helen Hemphill holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College and is an education Artist in Residence for the Tennessee Arts Commission. Her first novel, Long Gone Daddy, was published to considerable critical acclaim and was included in the New York Public Library's 2006 "Books for the Teen Age." A native Texan, she currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee and Austin, Texas with her family. The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones Panel: Saturday, 9:00-11:00 am, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Frankie Henry sings with the Mt. Ararat Church Men's Chorus and Praise Divas, located in downtown Nashville. Perform: Sunday, 12:30-1:30 pm, Café Stage
  • Heather Hepler has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. She has taught young adult literature, children's literature, and various other writing courses for several colleges and universities. She has also worked as a book reviewer and contributor for several publications, including the New York Times. She lives in Tyler, Texas. Jars of Glass Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:30 pm, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Robert Hicks lives in the greater Nashville area in Tennessee. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Widow of the South. A Guitar and a Pen (ed.) Panel: Saturday, 3:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Stephen W. Hines is a literary prospector who edited the newspaper columns of Laura Ingalls Wilder into the book Little House in the Ozarks, a bestseller. He is the director of communications with the Department of Children's Services. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks Presentation: Sunday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Sunday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bobbie Hinman has a BS degree in elementary education and, along with her ten grandchildren, is right at home when it comes to children's literature. Her previous book, The Knot Fairy, is the recipient of several literary awards and continues to delight children everywhere. The Sock Fairy and The Knot Fairy Perform: Saturday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Children's Stage; Perform: Sunday, 1:30-2:30 pm, Children's Stage
  • Cary Holladay grew up in Virginia and Pennsylvania. She holds degrees from the College of William and Mary and from Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of four previous books: The Quick-Change Artist: Stories; Mercury; The Palace of Wasted Footsteps; and The People Down South. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, The Goodheart Prize, and the O. Henry Prize, among others. Her husband is the writer John Bensko. They live in Memphis, Tennessee. A Fight in the Doctor's Office Panel: Saturday, 11:30-1:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Scott Huler's award-winning radio work has been heard on All Things Considered and Day to Day on National Public Radio and on Marketplace and Splendid Table on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. No Man's Land: One Man's Odyssey Through the Odyssey Presentation: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Sunday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade; Presentation: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Capitol Library
  • Brian Hull works as a Children's Program Specialist for the Nashville Public Library. He has adapted several popular children's books and folktales for the library's puppet theater, and he writes and directs shows for Dollywood. The Nashville Scene called Brian "one of Nashville's creative treasures." Perform: Saturday, 1:30-2:30 pm, Children's Stage
  • Janis Ian is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter and singer, and an author of science fiction. Society's Child: My Autobiography Presentation: Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 12; Panel: Saturday, 3:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Friday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade; Sign: Saturday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Joseph B. Ingle is director of the Neighborhood Justice Center in Nashville and a well-known activist, working to abolish the dealth penalty in Tennessee. Last Rights: Thirteen Fatal Encounters with the State's Justice Panel: Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Friday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bill Ivey was the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1998 through 2001, was director of the Country Music Foundation from 1971 to 1998, and was twice elected Chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He presently serves as founding director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Arts, Inc. How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights Presentation: Friday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Friday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • B. Albers Jackson is an award winning screenwriter and film producer. Her video, Forgotten Son, won the Educational Short Award at the 2007 International Family Film Festival. She won Best Feature Animation Screenplay for Rama at the 2003 International Family Film Festival. She is a professor of chemistry at Tennessee Technological University. Rama: The Legend Panel: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Dot Jackson received the Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Refuge. Refuge Panel: Friday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Friday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Jon Jackson received this comment from the Nashville Scene: "Unsigned and gigging his way through Music City's cheap seats with a steel-toed, bootstrap wit — while up for a seat in the District 5 State House — Jackson's mischievous brand of country folk epitomizes the sound of a bedroom artist slogging through countless late nights of broken picks and longneck-induced noodlings." Perform: Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Café Stage
  • Jessie Janeshek is co-editor of Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers, 2009. Her poems appear in Washington Square, Passages North, Review Americana, Yemasee, and Caduceus, and have been anthologized in Low Explosions: Writings on the Body, and in The Movable Nest. She received her MFA from Emerson College, and is a doctoral poetry student at the University of Tennessee. Panel: Saturday, 11:30-12:30 pm, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Missy Jenkins is a counselor at a day treatment center and a public speaker. She resides in Murray, Kentucky, with her husband and son. I Choose to Be Happy: A School Shooting Survivor's Triumph Over Tragedy Presentation: Saturday, 10:30-11:30 am, Capitol Library; Sign: Saturday, 11:30-12:00 noon, Signing Colonnade
  • Rena Johnson is a poet and public speaker who teaches workshops on using poetry as a means of healing and self-expression. Epiphanies of the Soul: Empower Yourself with Therapeutic Poetry Panel: Saturday, 3:00-4:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Rheta Grimsley Johnson is a syndicated columnist. For over a decade, she has been spending several months a year in southwest Louisiana, deep in the heart of Cajun country. Rheta fell in love with the place, bought a second home, and set in planting doomed azaleas and deep roots. She has found an assortment of beautiful people right on the edge of the Atchafalaya Swamp. Poor Man's Provence:Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana Presentation: Saturday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Varian Johnson was born and raised in Florence, South Carolina. He now lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two cocker spaniels. My Life as a Rhombus Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:30 pm, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bret Anthony Johnston is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Harvard University and the author of Corpus Christi: Stories. Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer Panel: Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers; Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium; Sign: Friday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Ben Jones is best-known as the beloved character Cooter from the Dukes of Hazzard television show. He served as a United States congressman from Georgia. Redneck Boy in the Promised Land Presentation: Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 16; Sign: Friday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Jacqueline Jones is Harry S. Truman Professor of American History at Brandeis University and the author of seven previous books. Among her numerous awards are the Taft Prize, the Brown Memorial Prize, the Spruill Prize, the Bancroft Prize (for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow), and, in 1999, a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives with her family in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War Panel: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Madison Jones has received numerous awards for his work, including the T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing, the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction, and the Harper Lee Award. He is emeritus professor and writer-in-residence at Auburn University. The Adventures of Douglas Bragg Presentation: Saturday, 9:00-10:00 am, House Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 10:00-10:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Joy Jordan-Lake earned a PhD in English Literature after graduate studies in theology. She has directed compassion ministries for low-income and homeless families in the Boston area, worked as a free-lance journalist and a university professor, and was a Baptist chaplain at Harvard. With her husband and their three children, she now lives just south of Nashville, where she writes and teaches part time at Belmont University. For more information, please see www.joyjordanlake.com. Blue Hole Back Home Panel: Saturday, 11:30-1:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Carolyn Jourdan is a former U.S. Senate counsel and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She lives in rural Tennessee. Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir Panel: Sunday, 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Sunday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Marilyn Kallet is the author of fourteen books, including Circe, After Hours, poetry from BkMk Press, UMKC, and Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard, translations from Black Widow Press. She has won the Tennessee Arts Commission Literary Fellowship in Poetry, and was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers' Hall of Fame in 2005. She holds a Lindsay Young Professorship at the University of Tennessee, where she directed the creative writing program from 1986-2003. In 2009, Black Widow Press will publish Packing Light: New and Selected Poems. The Moveable Nest: A Mother-Daughter Companion Panel: Saturday, 11:30-12:30 pm, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Stacey R. Kaye, MMR, is the mother of two girls and a self-described "Parenting Lecture Groupie." As her first daughter grew into a feisty toddler, Stacey searched for language that would discourage tantrums and still encourage confidence and emotional growth. The result is her ParentSmart/KidHappy books. Ready for Bed! and Ready for the Day! Presentation: Saturday, 9:00-10:00 am, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 10:00-10:30 am, Signing Colonnade; Panel: Saturday, 12:30-2:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Erin Keane lives in Lousville, Kentucky, where she directs the InKY Reading Series and teaches at Bellarmine University. She received the Al Smith Fellowhip from the Kentucky Arts Council and a residency fellowship from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. The Gravity Soundtrack Presentation: Sunday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Sunday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Katherine Kellgren has appeared onstage in London, New York and Frankfurt. Her recent work includes the role of Laura in a regional production of The Glass Menagerie and appearances on Comedy Central. She has recorded numerous plays and dramatizations of novels for the radio, including winners of the AudioFile Earphones Award and the Peabody Award. She is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Panel: Sunday, 1:00-2:30 pm, Room 16; Sign: Sunday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade; Perform: Saturday, 1:30-2:30 pm, Children's Stage
  • Jo Kellum is a landscape architect and past garden design writer for Southern Living magazine. Now a freelance garden writer and photographer, Kellum contributes to numerous gardening magazines. She lives with her family atop a mountain in Tennessee, where she writes from a home office overlooking her garden. Southern Shade: A Plant Selection Guide and Southern Sun: A Plant Selection Guide Presentation: Saturday, 9:00-10:00 am, Room 16; Sign: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Leatha Kendrick is a poetry and writing teacher at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky. Beyond Breast Cancer: Write for Recovery Panel: Sunday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Sunday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bill Kennedy retired from his career as a business executive with IBM and other companies to devote himself to a lifelong passion for cooking. He and his wife Dorothy live in Franklin, Tennessee. 100 + Recipes That Work Presentation: Friday, 1:30-2:30 pm, Food Stage; Sign: Friday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Les Kerr is a songwriter and author whose music often contains references to New Orleans, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast. He wrote nine of the songs on his new CD, Crawfish Caravan. Tennessee Perform: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Café Stage
  • Ronald Kidd is the author of the highly acclaimed Monkey Town. His novels of adventure, comedy, and mystery have received the Children's Choice Award, an Edgar Award nomination, and honors from the American Library Association, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library. He is a two-time O'Neill playwright who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. On Beale Street Presentation: Saturday, 11:00-12:00 noon, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 12:00-12:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Tom Kimmel jokes that he's the only singer-songwriter to have written songs for Captain Kangaroo, Miami Vice and Touched by an Angel. Tom's songs have appeared on albums by dozens of artists from Linda Ronstadt to Johnny Cash, in feature films (Twins, Runaway Bride, Serendipity), and television shows (As the World Turns, Dawson's Creek, Party of Five). An outstanding performer and recording artist in his own right, he has captivated audiences and released seven albums, including his latest, Light of Day. The Sweetest and the Meanest Panel: Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Friday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade; Perform: Friday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Café Stage
  • David King is a Fulbright scholar with a master's degree from Cambridge University and the author of the acclaimed Finding Atlantis. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and children. Visit him at www.davidkingauthor.com. Vienna 1814:How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna Presentation: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Barry Kitterman has lived and taught in Belize, China, Taiwan, Ohio and Indiana. His stories have been published in The Long Story, Cutbank, California Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly and many more journals. He is a professor of English at Austin Peay State University. The Baker's Boy Panel: Saturday, 9:00-11:00 am, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Michael Knight is the author of the award-winning novel Divining Rod and two story collections, Dogfight and Other Stories and Goodnight, Nobody. An Alabama native, Knight directs the creative writing program at the University of Tennessee. Holiday Season Panel: Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Friday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Carole Brown Knuth is a scholar on southern women writers at the University of New York, Buffalo. Second Opinion Panel: Sunday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Sunday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Tom Larson promises an instant lip-smacking, hand-clapping, boogie-your-woogie party. Stirring up a heady brew of jump blues, New Orleans R&B, and 1940's smallband jazz, The Dean Martinis keep the dance floor jumping, yet manage to give the wallflowers something to hang their hats on. Perform: Friday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Café Stage; Perform: Friday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Café Stage
  • Billie Letts' first novel, Where the Heart Is, won the Walker Percy Award, sold more than three million copies, and became a major motion picture. Her second novel, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon, was named the first "Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma" selection. Her third novel, Shoot the Moon, was both a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Made in the U.S.A. Presentation: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Carter Little is a songwriter, film composer and producer living in Nashville, Tennessee. As a performer he has shared the stage with Americana heavyweights such as Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, Tony Joe White, and Jay Ungar, and his last album, Dare To Be Small, was released to critical national acclaim. In addition to co-authoring My Country Roots, his recent endeavors include scoring the award winning films, The Living Wake (IFC), The Windfisherman, and Kate Wakes, and serving as the Music Supervisor and Soundtrack Producer on the screen adaptation of Jim Lehrer's novel, Kick the Can, which is currently in pre-production. He is most passionate about his love of William Faulkner, John Prine and Appalachian culture. My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Outsider Music Presentation: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Courtney Little is a musician/writer who just recently moved from Nashville to New York City. While in Nashville, he was a singer/songwriter and performer, most notably in the band Saddlesong. Prior to moving to Tennessee, Little lived in New York City and worked for Oscar-winning documentarian, Ken Burns and Oscar award winning score-producer, Mathias Gohl. He currently resides in Brooklyn, where he is about to launch, Jukebox, an innovative, national, early child music curriculum. My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Original Outsider Music Presentation: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bret Lott is the editor of The Southern Review, based at Louisiana State University. A former writer-in-residence at the College of Charleston, he has written several novels, including the Oprah Book Club selection, Jewel. Ancient Highways: A Novel Presentation: Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Friday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • D. Anne Love is the author of several novels. She won the Writers' League of Texas Teddy Award for The Puppeteer's Apprentice, and she has been recognized by the American Library Association and the National Council of Teachers of English for her work. A former professor of children's literature, she holds a PhD from the University of North Texas and is a popular speaker at writers' and educators' conferences. A native West-Tennessean, she currently resides in New Albany, Ohio. Defying the Diva Panel: Saturday, 3:00-4:30 pm, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Charlie Lovett is writer-in-residence at Summit School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His plays for children have been seen in over 1,000 productions in all fifty states and five foreign countries. He is the author of 11 previous books, including works on Lewis Carroll and the acclaimed memoir Love, Ruth. The Program is his first novel. The Program Panel: Saturday, 9:00-10:00 am, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 10:00-10:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Sallie Lowenstein is the author and illustrator of four picture books and six illustrated young adult novels. Her books have been honored by the American Library Association, the Bank Street College of Education, the NY Public Library and been selected for the Accelerated Reader Program and by the Fund for Educational Excellence for classroom libraries in Baltimore schools. Lowenstein combines her love of writing with her love of children by mentoring three groups of young writers, one in Montgomery County, Maryland, and two in Arlington, Virginia, who have begun to receive national recognition in their own right. She and these groups were the subject of a 2004 Reading is Fundamental video, broadcast nationally. In the Company of Whispers and Sir Kyle and Lady Madeline Panel: Friday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade; Panel: Saturday, 12:30-2:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bunkie Lynn, a twenty-year advertising and marketing veteran, earned a BS in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin and worked for Nashville's Carden & Cherry Advertising. Lynn also served time as a communications manager for a multi-national industrial textiles manufacturer. The Big Girls' Guide to Life Panel: Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Molly MacRae's short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she is a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Wilder Rumors, her first novel, was published in May, 2007. MacRae spent twenty years in Upper East Tennessee, but now lives with her family in Champaign, Illinois, where she pushes books on children at the public library. Wilder Rumors Panel: Friday, 2:00-3:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Friday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Ed Madden is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina as well as a writer in residence at the Riverbanks Botanical Gardens in Columbia, South Carolina. His essays on politics and culture have been featured in many newspapers and journals and featured on NPR. He was selected by editor Natasha Trethewey for inclusion in the anthology Best New Poets of 2007. Signals: Poems Panel: Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • David Maraniss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Washington Post and bestselling writer. www.davidmaraniss.com Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World Presentation: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Linda Marion is the poetry editor of Now & Then magazine and the author of two poetry collections, Mother Land (Iris Press, 2008) and Home Fires (Sow's Ear Press, 1997). Her poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Cornbread Nation 2, Negative Capability, Nimrod, Potomac Review, CALYX, Helicon Nine, Atlanta Review, Poet Lore, among others. Her work was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize, and she has received two literary fellowships from the Tennessee Arts Commission, among other awards. Mother Land Panel: Sunday, 2:30-4:30 pm, Room 16; Sign: Sunday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Lee Martin is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever; a novel, Quakertown; a story collection, The Least You Need to Know; and two memoirs, From Our House and Turning Bones. He has won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation Award, and the Glenna Luschei Prize. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at The Ohio State University. River of Heaven Panel: Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers; Panel: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Friday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bobbie Ann Mason has won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Southern Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. She lives with her husband in Kentucky. Nancy Culpepper: Stories Presentation: Sunday, 1:00-2:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Sunday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Catherine Mayhew is a former food writer and restaurant critic for the Charlotte Observer and the Knight-Ridder Wire. She lives in Brentwood, Tennessee, where her deck is home to five grills and smokers. When she's not grilling, she's competing with her all-female competition barbeque team, Chicks in Charge. Mayhew is currently working on a new cookbook about the rich heritage of Nashville's Meat `N Threes. Handy Mom's Guide to Grilling Presentation: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Food Stage; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Susan McBride shifts from mystery to YA with The Debs, the first of a new series. She's also penned five Debutante Dropout Mysteries, which won the Lefty Award, two Anthony Award nominations, and a William Rockhill Nelson Award nomination. Visit her web site at SusanMcBride.com and check out her YouTube trailers at http://www.youtube.com/thedebsbooks The Debs Panel: Saturday, 3:00-4:30 pm, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Ed McClanahan is the author of several books. His writing has appeared in Esqire, Rolling Stone, and Playboy. he has taught English and creative writing at Oregon State University, Stanford University, the University of Montana, and the University of Kentucky. He currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky. O The Clear Moment Panel: Friday, 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 31; Sign: Friday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Clint McCown is the author of two previous novels. He teaches in the writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dead Languages Panel: Sunday, 2:30-4:30 pm, Room 16; Sign: Sunday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Suzanne McDermott has recorded five albums and toured throughout Europe and the US. She currently works in the studio she built in Nashville and travels with workshops and concerts. Perform: Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Café Stage
  • Bob McDill is a retired songwriter and music publisher. During his long career he wrote 31 No. 1 songs as well as songs for movies and television. His movie credits include The Thing Called Love and Primary Colors. Bob is a member of the Coffee House Club, a Nashville mens club which began in 1909. He sits on the William G. Hall Scholarship committee at Belmont University. He is a past member of the Nashville Board of Governors of N.A.R.A.S. as well as a former member of the A.S.C.A.P. advisory board. Retired from songwriting, he is a freelance writer and lecturer on music and Southern culture. A Guitar and a Pen Panel: Saturday, 3:00-5:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Fredrick McKissack and his wife, Patricia McKissack, have written more than 100 books about the African-American experience. They have won countless awards and received much critical acclaim, all the while bringing enjoyment and information to young readers. Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out Panel: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Patricia McKissack is the author of many highly acclaimed children's books, including Goin' Someplace Special, a Coretta Scott King Award winner; and Mirandy and Brother Wind, a recipient of a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award. She lives in St. Louis. Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt Panel: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade; Panel: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Rick McMahan has worked in federal law enforcement for more than sixteen years. For the last ten years, as a Special Agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) Rick has investigated federal firearms and explosives violations, including conducting investigations into violent street gangs and outlaw motorcycle gangs. His short stories have appeared in anthologies such as Techno Noire, Low Down & Derby, and the Mystery Writer's of America Death Do Us Part, edited by Harlan Coben. Death Do Us Part Panel: Friday, 2:00-3:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Friday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Margaret McMullan lives in Evansville, Indiana with her husband and son. She is an English professor at the University of Evansville. She was born in Newton County, Mississippi, which is near where How I Found the Strong is set, and the main character is based on her grandmother's great uncle. How I Found the Strong is her first novel for children, and the sequel, When I Crossed No-Bob, will be published in November of 2007. When I Crossed No-Bob Panel: Saturday, 9:00-11:00 am, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Clifton K. Meador is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Meharry Medical College as well as director of the Meharry Vanderbilt Alliance. He is the author of eight books including A Little Book of Doctors' Rules and Med School: A Collection of Stories of Medical School, 1951 to 1955. Puzzling Symptoms: How to Solve the Puzzle of Your Symptoms Presentation: Sunday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Sunday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Mindy Merrell is among the last generation of land grant university-educated home economists trained before the dawn of the celebrity chef. Her studies in food science and advanced home appliances prepared her for a career in food marketing and recipe and cookbook development.Over the years, Mindy has rubbed shoulders with other historical culinary luminaries including Martha White, Uncle Ben, the Tennessee Pride sausage kid, the Quaker Oats guy, and the Pillsbury doughboy. She hopes one day to invent the next big thing-molecular gastronomy meets canned mushroom soup--green bean casserole foam. Cheater BBQ: Barbecue Anytime, Anywhere, in Any Weather Presentation: Sunday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Food Stage; Sign: Sunday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Jenny Meyerhoff is the author of two novels. She studied writing at the University of Michigan and received a Master's in Education from Northwestern University. She then became a kindergarten teacher. She is now a full-time writer and mom and lives in Riverwoods, Illinois with her husband and three children. Third Grade Baby Panel: Saturday, 4:00-5:30 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 5:30-6:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bruce Michael Miller has toured the world performing with such notables as Paul McCartney, Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina, Laura Branigan, The Standells, John Densmore, and many others and has been part of many original bands and projects. His critically praised debut solo album is "Already Somebody." Perform: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Café Stage
  • Richard Modlin is an emeritus professor of zoology and former Director of the Honors Program at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He writes extensively for birding and nature journals. www.richardmodlin.com Chasing Wings: Birding Exploits and Encounters Presentation: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Thorpe Moeckel is a professor in the MFA program at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia and received the New Writing Award in Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers at the 2005 Conference on Southern Literature in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Making a Map of the River Panel: Friday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Friday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Kelly Moffett is Director of Creative Writing and Assistant Professor of English at Kentucky Wesleyan College. Waiting for a Warm Body to Fill It Panel: Saturday, 9:30-10:30 am, Capitol Library; Sign: Saturday, 10:30-11:00 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Honor Moore is the author of three poetry collections and of The White Blackbird, a life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent. She lives in New York City and teaches at the New School and Columbia University. The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir Presentation: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • R.B. Morris is a singer-songwriter, poet, playwright who has spent most of his life in Knoxville and in the mountains of East Tennessee. Early Fires Panel: Saturday, 1:00-2:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium; Sign: Saturday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Bob Moser is an award-winning political correspondent for The Nation. He has chronicled Southern politics for nearly two decades for publications ranging from Rolling Stone to The Independent. A native of North Carolina, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority Presentation: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 16; Sign: Sunday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Courtney Mroch is an award-winning short story writer and a Senior Blogger for Families.com. Her online publications have been among the top 10 downloads on amazon.com. Beneath the Morvan Moon Panel: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Sunday, 1:30-2:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Scott Muskin holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota and has published short stories in Beloit Fiction Journal, Clackamas Literary Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Red Rock Review, and Minnesota Monthly. He was a finalist for the 2006 Flannery O'Connor Award for his short story collection. The Annunciations of Hank Meyerson, Mama's Boy and Scholar Panel: Sunday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Sunday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Beverle Graves Myers enjoys mixing murder, music and intrigue in her Baroque Mystery series set in 18th-century Venice. This Kentucky author also writes short fiction which has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and numerous other magazines and anthologies. For more information about Bev and her latest book, The Iron Tongue of Midnight, see www.beverlegravesmyers.com. The Iron Tongue of Midnight Panel: Friday, 2:00-3:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Friday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Ellen Myrick has been reading books aloud for children for over ten years. She performed in The Red Hot Rattoons by Elizabeth Winthrop and provided the narration for Stop the Train by Carnegie medallist Geraldine McCaughrean, produced by Full Cast Audio. Ms. Myrick has led and moderated panels, programs and workshops on the production and marketing of audiobooks for both local and national organizations. Perform: Saturday, 1:30-2:30 pm, Children's Stage
  • Bruce Nemerov, former audio specialist at the Center for Popular Music at MTSU, is currently entangled in several music projects in the upland South. Lost Delta Found Perform: Saturday, 11:00-12:00 noon, Café Stage
  • Randall Norris is a professor of English and American Studies at Saulk Valley Community College in Dixon, Illinois. He is the author of Women of Coal. Highway 61: Heart of the Delta Panel: Sunday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Sunday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Barbara Nowak writes newspaper columns on food and restaurants and has hosted a weekly cooking segment on the popular show "Today at Home" on the Home and Garden television network. The Everything Wine Book Presentation: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Food Stage
  • Kelly Oliver is Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of more than 50 articles and 15 books. Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media Panel: Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Friday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Susan Orlean is an author, staff writer for The New Yorker, and a devoted dog owner. Her New York Times bestselling book The Orchid Thief inspired the movie Adaptation. Lazy Little Loafers is her first children's book. Lazy Little Loafers Presentation: Saturday, 9:00-10:00 am, Room 12; Presentation: Saturday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 10:00-10:30 am, Signing Colonnade; Sign: Saturday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade; Sign: Saturday, 10:00-10:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Mark Orr is the former Senior Mystery Editor for Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. He has had short stories published in a variety of genres, along with reviews, poems and essays. He received an Honorable Mention in the 2003 Wergle Flomp poetry contest. He is currently writing a series of supernatural mystery novels set in Nashville. The e-book edition of the first, Howling in the Park, is available from Fictionwise (http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook51303.htm?cached). The second, Dead Women in Love, is still under construction. Howling in the Park Panel: Friday, 2:00-3:30 pm, Room 29; Sign: Friday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Sheila Ortego is president of Santa Fe Community College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Born in New Orleans and of Acadian ancestry, Dr. Ortego received her doctorate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and since has taught Southwest Literature, Women's Literature, and Women's Studies at several colleges and universities. Her poetry has been published by the Santa Fe Literary Review, and she has recently been admitted to the Live Poets Society in Santa Fe. The Road from La Cueva Panel: Saturday, 11:30-1:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Ann Patchett is the author of five novels, including Bel Canto (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize), and the bestselling nonfiction book, Truth & Beauty. She has written for The Atlantic, Harper's, Gourmet, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and the Washington Post. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Run Presentation: Sunday, 2:00-3:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Sunday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Amanda Petrusich is a staff writer at Pitchforkmedia.com and a senior contributing editor at Paste. She is the author of Pink Moon, a short book about Nick Drake's 1972 album for Continuum's 33 1/3 series. It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the New American Music Panel: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Tom Piazza is the author of nine books, including the novels City Of Refuge and My Cold War, and the book-length post-Katrina essay Why New Orleans Matters. He has been awarded the James Michener Award for Fiction and the Faulkner Society Award for the Novel, among many other honors. A well known writer on American music as well, he won a 2004 Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey. City of Refuge Presentation: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, House Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Gloria Jean Pinkney met her husband, illustrator Jerry Pinkney, while attending high school in Philadelphia. They have collaborated over the years in making quality books for children. Back Home, her first book, is based on memories of a family reunion in her hometown and is illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Daniel and the Lions Panel: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • David James Poissant's stories have appeared in Playboy, The Chicago Tribune, and in the anthologies Best New American Voices 2008 and New Stories from the South 2008. He has won the Playboy College Fiction Contest, the AWP Quickie Contest, the George Garrett Fiction Award, 2nd Prize in the Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest, and he was a runner-up for the 2006 Nelson Algren Award. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati. New Stories of the South Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium
  • Charles Price has been a Washington lobbyist, urban planner, and journalist. He is a graduate of High Point University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is also the author of Hiwassee: A Novel of the Civil War, Freedom's Altar, The Cock's Spur, and Where the Water-Dogs Laughed. He and his wife live in Burnsville, North Carolina. For more on Charles Price, see his website. Nor the Battle to the Strong: A Novel of the American Revolution in the South Panel: Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Friday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Clockers, Freedomland, and Samaritan. He won a 2007 Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO series, The Wire. Lush Life Presentation: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 16; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • R.B. Quinn chronicled his cooking and eating adventures on the patio in his former newspaper column, "The Fire Zone" (the Tennessean). His love of outdoor cooking was ignited by his mother, Loie, who trained him as her sous chef and to man the family brazier. Since then, R.B. has enjoyed the scenic route to food writing, visiting the practice of construction and constitutional law, the meeting-driven non-profit free speech arena, and a meaningful detour into higher education where he inspired countless young adults to reach beyond the C+. Cheater BBQ: Barbecue Anytime, Anywhere, in Any Weather Presentation: Sunday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Food Stage; Sign: Sunday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Linda Ragsdale is an award-winning author/illustrator who teaches and demonstrates art in schools and libraries. Her work has been published in such magazines as Pack-O-Fun and Looney Tunes Kids, and she has been featured on a variety of crafting television shows. The Amazing Step-By-Step Art Card Studio Perform: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Children's Stage; Perform: Sunday, 12:30-1:30 pm, Children's Stage; Perform: Saturday, 02:45PM-03:15PM, Children's Stage
  • Davis Raines didn't get around to a music career until his mid-30s, after he decided to leave behind his job as a captain of a maximum security prison in Alabama, where, for a time, he was in charge of Death Row. He has had songs recorded by Kenny Rogers, Pinmonkey, Pam Tillis, and Walt Wilkins & The Mystiqueros. His latest CD is Going to Montgomery. Perform: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Café Stage
  • Sonya Ramsey is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Reading, Writing and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville Sign: Saturday, 10:00-10:30 am, Signing Colonnade; Presentation: Saturday, 9:00-10:00 am, Senate Chambers
  • Alice Randall is the author of The Wind Done Gone and Pushkin and the Queen of Spades. Her new novel, Rebel Yell, will be published next September by Bloomsbury. She is Writer-in Residence at Vanderbilt University. My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Original Outsider Music Presentation: Saturday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Ron Rash's family has lived in the southern Appalachian mountains since the mid-1700's. He teaches English and poetry at North Carolina universities and has previously published three books of poetry, two collections of stories, and a children's book. He has received an NEA Poetry Fellowship and holds the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University. Serena Presentation: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 16; Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:30 pm, War Memorial Auditorium; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Dale Volberg Reed is a member of the Southern Foodways Alliance and the North Carolina Barbecue Society. Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue Presentation: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • John Shelton Reed lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is a member of the Southern Foodways Alliance and the North Carolina Barbecue Society. He taught for thirty-one years at the University of North Carolina, where he directed the Howard Odum Institute for Research in Social Science and helped to found the university's Center for the Study of the American South. A founding coeditor of the quarterly Southern Cultures, he has received many fellowships and prizes and has been president of the Southern Sociological Society and the Southern Association for Public Opinion Research. Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue Presentation: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Julia Reed grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. She is a contributing editor at Vogue and Newsweek, and the author of the essay collection Queen of the Turtle Derby. She lives in New Orleans. The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story; Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns and Other Southern Delicacies Presentation: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade; Presentation: Saturday, 2:30-3:30 pm, Food Stage; Sign: Saturday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Roger Reid is a writer, director, and producer of the award-winning Discovering Alabama series from the University of Alabama's Alabama Museum of Natural History, in cooperation with Alabama Public Television. Space Panel: Saturday, 12:30-2:00 pm, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • David Rigsbee is the author of five previous collections, including The Dissolving Island (BkMk Press, 2003). With Steven Ford Brown, he co-edited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry (University of Virginia Press, 2001). His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, and many others. He is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Virginia Commission on the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Academy of American Poets. Cloud Journal Panel: Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Friday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Lynda Johnson Robb is the elder of the two daughters of United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his wife Lady Bird Johnson. She served as First Lady of Virginia from 1982 to 1986 and as Second Lady of Virginia from 1978 to 1982. She served as chair of the board of Reading is Fundamental, the nation's largest children's literacy organization, from 1996 to 2001. In 2002 she received the Ella Dickey Literacy Award for her work in promoting literacy. Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out Panel: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Rick Rodgers is one of the most versatile and respected professionals in the food industry. He is the author of more than thirty cookbooks, including the bestselling 101 series (Thanksgiving 101, Christmas 101, Barbecues 101); the IACP Cookbook Award nominees Kaffeehaus and The Carefree Cook; and eight titles in the Williams-Sonoma cookbook line. His recipes have appeared in Cooking Light, Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, and epicurious.com, and he is a frequent contributor to Bon Appétit. He lives in the tristate New York area. Autumn Gatherings: Casual Food to Enjoy with Family and Friends Presentation: Saturday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Food Stage; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • M.L. Rose is a pseudonym for Myra McLarey and Linda Weeks, writing teachers and longtime friends. Myra McLarey is a novelist. Kirkus Reviews said of her Water from the Well, "A lyrical first novel … prose both elegant and original." Linda Weeks is a freelance writer. Myra lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Linda lives in Ripley, Tennessee. The Road to Eden's Ridge Presentation: Friday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 30; Sign: Friday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Robert Rummel-Hudson has been writing online since 1995. During that time, his work has been recognized by the Diarist Awards at diarist.net, including citations for Best Writing (1999 Q4), Best Overall Journal (2000 Q1), Best Account of a Public or News Event (2001 Q2, on the execution of Timothy McVeigh), Best Dramatic Entry (2002 Q3), and the Legacy Hall of Fame Award (2004 Q4). He has served as a featured panelist at JournalCon, an annual conference for online writers, in 2001, 2003 and 2004. His online writing has been featured in articles in the Austin Chronicle (August 2000), the Irish Times (summer 2003) and the New Haven Register (April 2003). Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with his Wordless Daughter Panel: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Randy Russell, a former Edgar Award finalist, presents ghost-lore programs to groups large and small across the South. He and his wife, Janet Barnett, are the coauthors of three previous collections, including the highly popular Ghost Dogs of the South, The Granny Curse, and Mountain Ghost Stories and Other Tales of Western North Carolina. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Ghost Cats of the South Panel: Sunday, 2:00-3:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Sunday, 3:00-3:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Renee Russell, author of Kate's Pride, is a seventh generation West Tennessean. Her short stories have appeared in various publications and she freelanced for The Commercial Appeal in 2005. Kate's Pride is her debut novel. Kate's Pride Panel: Friday, 1:00-2:30 pm, Room 31; Sign: Friday, 2:30-3:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Lynn Salsi is the author of several books. She has received the American Library Association's Notable Book Award, six Willie Parker Peace History Book Awards, and was named North Carolina Historian of the Year in 2001. The Life and Times of ray Hicks: Keeper of the Jack Tales Panel: Sunday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Sunday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Richard Saunders is Special Collections librarian and archivist at the University of Tennessee, Martin. He is currently completing a biography of Harry Harrison Kroll. Their Ancient Grudge (intr.) Presentation: Saturday, 9:00-10:00 am, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Saturday, 10:00-10:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • Scott Christian Sava is known throughout the entertainment industry for his versatility as a storyteller. He attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and became a member of the New York Society of Illustrators at the age of 24. He has served as designer, art director and producer for such popular video games as StarCraft 64, X-Files, Alien vs. Predator, and Fight Club. He was lead animator for the Universal Film Casper and is a weekly contributor to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Digimon, Spider-Man and Nascar Racers. With his company, Blue Dream Studios, he now handles animation projects for Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and more. The Dreamland Chronicles Panel: Saturday, 10:00-11:00 am, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 11:00-11:30 am, Signing Colonnade
  • John Seigenthaler is the chairman of the Freedom Forum First Ammendment Center in Nashville and the former editor of "The Tennessean." James K. Polk: 1845-1849: The American Presidents Series Presentation: Friday, 4:30-5:30 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Friday, 5:30-6:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Alexander Shaia is an educator, psychotherapist, writer and passionate professional speaker. He is the founder and director of the Blue Door Retreat in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Beyond the Biography of Jesus: The Journay of Quadrotos, Book I Presentation: Saturday, 4:00-5:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Saturday, 5:00-5:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Dawn Shamp received an MFA in writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. She received a fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center and attended the Sewanee Writers' Conference on a grant from the Durham Arts Council. A native of Roxboro, North Carolina, she now lives in nearby Durham. This is her first novel — inspired by these photos and related stories of her paternal grandmother, Lizzie Adair. On Account of Conspicuous Women Panel: Friday, 3:30-4:30 pm, Old Supreme Court Room; Sign: Friday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Ann Shayne runs the successful website www.masondixonknitting.com. She lives in Nashville. Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too Presentation: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 12; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Janann Sherman is assistant professor of History at the Univeristy of Memphis. Tennessee Women: Their Stories, Their Lives Panel: Saturday, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 29; Sign: Saturday, 1:00-1:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • George Singleton has published three collections of stories and one novel. He lives in Pickens County, South Carolina. Work Shirts for Madmen; Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers Panel: Friday, 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 31; Presentation: Sunday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Friday, 3:30-4:00 pm, Signing Colonnade; Sign: Sunday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Gary Slaughter writes critically-acclaimed, richly-detailed reminiscences of small-town life on the American home front during the last year of World War II. John Seigenthaler calls the two heroes of Slaughter's Cottonwood novels "this generation's Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn." Cottonwood Fall was a popular fiction finalist for the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award. Cottonwood Winter: A Christmas Story was an adult fiction finalist for the ForeWord 2008 Book of the Year Award. Visit him on-line at www.garyslaughter.com. Cottonwood Summer, Cottonwood Fall, Cottonwood Winter. Cottonwood Winter Presentation: Saturday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Room 31; Sign: Saturday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • William Sleator is the author of more than 30 young adult books, including Interstellar Pig, The Green Futures of Tycho, and The Spirit House. He lives in Thailand and Boston and travels extensively on speaking tours. Test Panel: Saturday, 12:30-2:00 pm, Sheraton Suite 6; Sign: Saturday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Laurel Snyder is the author of Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains and Inside the Slidy Diner. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and commentator for NPR's All Things Considered, she lives with her family in Atlanta, and online at http://laurelsnyder.com Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains Panel: Saturday, 11:00-12:30 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 12:30-1:00 pm, Signing Colonnade; Panel: Saturday, 4:00-5:30 pm, Room 30; Sign: Saturday, 5:30-6:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Michael Snyder has spent the bulk of his professional career in sales, has fallen in love, and continues to struggle with the balance between art and vocation. He's never investigated a murder, much less that of an allegedly clairvoyant dog. My Name is Russell Fink Panel: Sunday, 3:00-4:00 pm, Capitol Library; Sign: Sunday, 4:00-4:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Minton Sparks is a spoken-word poet. Her DVD, Open Casket, recently released in the US and the UK. After having toured with Rodney Crowell, Elizabeth Crook and Will Kimbrough, she is now working on her second novel. White Lightning Presentation: Friday, 1:00-2:00 pm, Room 16; Sign: Friday, 2:00-2:30 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Laurel Coleman Steinhice is Marion's daughter. As an only child, she shared the exciting ups and downs of her mother's life while they were together, and lived through her own series of adventures and misadventures while they were separated. Marion's Child Panel: Sunday, 3:00-4:30 pm, Senate Chambers; Sign: Sunday, 4:30-5:00 pm, Signing Colonnade
  • Becca Stevens is the author of Hither and Yon, Finding Balance, and Sanctuary, nominated by Christianity Today as best spirituality book of 2005. Featured on CNN and in other national media, she is Episcopal priest at St. Augustine's Chapel at Vanderbilt University. Find Your Way Home: Words from the Street, Wisdom from the Heart Presentatio