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Speakers
See the Who’s Who of the 27th Annual Festival line-up.
Jessica Alexander
Jessica Alexander is a multiply published children’s book author and editor. This ...
Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller is the author of two works of fiction: Seduction Theory, and The Sleep-Over ...
John Biguenet
John Biguenet has written seven books, including The Torturer’s Apprentice: Stories and ...
Patricia Brady
Patricia Brady has published biographies of Martha Washington, Julien Hudson, and, most recently, A ...
Richard Campanella
Richard Campanella, a geographer with the Tulane School of Architecture, is the ...
Emily Clark
Emily Clark is Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in American Colonial History at Tulane ...
JoAnn Clevenger
JoAnn Clevenger grew up in rural Alexandria where her love of traditional Louisiana ...
Maureen Corrigan
Maureen Corrigan has been the book critic for the Peabody Award-winning NPR program, Fresh ...
Moira Crone
Moira Crone has published five works of fiction. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Oxford American, ...
Arielle Eckstut
Arielle Eckstut is the co-author of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, ...
Alison Fraser
Alison Fraser is a nationally-acclaimed performer who has appeared in concert at such ...
Carol Gelderman
Carol Gelderman is a distinguished professor of English at the University of New ...
Troy Gilbert
A native and resident of New Orleans, Troy Gilbert is the author/co-author of Dinner with ...
Manuel Gonzales
Manuel Gonzales is a graduate of the Columbia University graduate creative writing program. ...
Ava Leavell Haymon
Ava Leavell Haymon is the author of the poetry collections Kitchen Heat and The Strict ...
Carolyn Hembree
Carolyn Hembree’s poems have appeared in Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, jubilat, and Witness, among ...
David Johnson
David Johnson is executive editor of Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine and KnowLA, ...
David Kaplan
David Kaplan is curator and co-founder of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater ...
Thomas Keith
Thomas Keith edits the Tennessee Williams titles for New Directions, including The Magic Tower ...
Errol Laborde
Errol Laborde is the editor-in-chief of Renaissance Publishing Company. In that capacity he serves ...
Peggy Scott Laborde
Peggy Scott Laborde is the senior producer for WYES-TV and host of “Steppin' Out,” ...
Cornell Landry
Cornell P. Landry, author of the wildly popular children’s book Goodnight NOLA, and Happy ...
Allison Leyton-Brown
Allison Leyton-Brown is an award-winning composer, pianist, and musical director based in NYC. ...
Carolyn Morrow Long
Carolyn Morrow Long began visiting New Orleans in 1978, when she became fascinated ...
Richard Louth
Richard Louth is a professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he ...
Emily Mann
Emily Mann is an artistic director and resident playwright at McCarter Theatre Center. ...
John Mariani
John Mariani is one of America’s foremost award-winning food writers and historians, and ...
Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
Cristine McMurdo-Wallis has performed in theatres Off-Broadway and country-wide. Highlights include: Nickel ...
Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton
Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton has worked in all facets of the publishing industry ...
Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, author and teacher. Her works include ...
Niyi Osundare
Niyi Osundare is a poet, dramatist, critic, essayist, and media columnist. He has authored ...
Ayesha Pande
Ayesha Pande represents an eclectic group of authors, including Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Danielle ...
John Shelton Reed
John Shelton Reed is William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at ...
Brad Richard
Brad Richard’s books include Habitations; Motion Studies, winner of the 2010 Washington ...
Gary Richards
Gary Richards is associate professor and chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, ...
Mark Routhier
Mark Routhier’s New Orleans directing credits include Orange Flower Water, Cat’s-Paw, The Santaland Diaries, The Piano Teacher, Opus, ...
Mona Lisa Saloy
Mona Lisa Saloy is associate professor of English and founding director of Creative Writing ...
Ben Sandmel
Ben Sandmel is a New Orleans–based journalist, folklorist, drummer, and producer. His ...
Michael Sartisky
For the past twenty-nine years, Michael Sartisky has been President and Executive Director of the ...
John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley is a Bronx-born screenwriter, director, and playwright. He is best ...
Harry Shearer
Harry Shearer is an actor, author, director, comedian, musician, political satirist, record-company owner, ...
Julie Smith
Novelist and publisher Julie Smith is the author of more than twenty mysteries, most ...
William Jay Smith
William Jay Smith studied at Washington University, Columbia University, and at Oxford ...
David Henry Sterry
David Henry Sterry is the co-author of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book ...
Susan Straight
Susan Straight has published eight novels. Her new novel Between Heaven and Here is the ...
John Jeremiah Sullivan
John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the ...
