Speakers

Eve Abrams

Eve Abrams is a radio producer, writer, audio documentarian, and educator whose work ...

Constance Adler

Constance Adler’s articles have appeared in Oxford American, Spy, Utne Reader, Gambit ...

S.L. Alexander

S.L. Alexander, an award-winning journalist who has worked in print and broadcast, ...

Ace Atkins

Ace Atkins, a former crime reporter, earned a Pulitzer nomination for his Tampa Tribune investigation ...

Ellen Baker

Ellen Baker is author of Keeping the House, which won the 2008 Great Lakes ...

Lisa Bankoff

Lisa Bankoff is an agent who represents fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction. ...

John M. Barry

John M. Barry is a New York Times best-selling author whose books have won more ...

Michael Bernstein

Michael Bernstein earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in economics at Yale ...

John Besh

John Besh’s restaurants - August, Besh Steak, Borgne, Lüke, Lüke San Antonio, ...

John Biguenet

John Biguenet is the author of seven books, including The Torturer’s Apprentice: ...

Scott Blackwood

Scott Blackwood’s novel, We Agreed to Meet Just Here won the AWP Prize for the ...

Darrell Bourque

Darrell Bourque’s books include Plainsongs, The Doors between Us, Burnt Water Suite, The Blue Boat, Call and ...

Patricia Brady

Patricia Brady,has published biographies of Martha Washington, Julien Hudson, and, most recently, A ...

Robert Bray

Robert Bray is the founding director of the Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference. ...

Richard Campanella

Richard Campanella, a geographer with the Tulane School of Architecture, is the ...

Jane Ciabbatari

Jane Ciabattari is the author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire and ...

Joshua Clark

Joshua Clark is the author of Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and ...

Alex V. Cook

Alex V. Cook is a Baton Rouge writer whose work has appeared ...

Jarvis DeBerry

Jarvis DeBerry, an editorial writer and columnist, has worked for The Times-Picayune ...

Amy Dickinson

Amy Dickinson is author of bestselling memoir, The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Story ...

John DiLeo

John DiLeo is the author of Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors. ...

Lou Dubose

Lou Dubose is the editor of the Washington Spectator. He was the ...

Tony Dunbar

Tony Dunbar is a lawyer and the author of the Tubby Dubonnet ...

Janet Daley Duval

Janet Daley Duval is currently an attorney employed as a senior law ...

Arielle Eckstrut

Arielle Eckstut is the co-author of The Essential Guide To Getting Your Book Published, ...

Pamela Binnings Ewen

Pamela Binnings Ewen’s most recent novel is Dancing on Glass. A sequel ...

Alison Fensterstock

Alison Fensterstock has written about Louisiana music and culture for Paste, Vibe, ...

Lucy Ferriss

Lucy Ferriss is the author of nine books, mostly fiction. Early reviews describe ...

Randy Fertel

Randy Fertel is president of both the Fertel Foundation and the Ruth U. ...

Tom Fitzmorris

Tom Fitzmorris is the publisher of The New Orleans Menu, and host ...

Catherine Frank

Catherine Frank began her career in publishing as an editorial assistant at Viking ...

Dirk Gindt

Dirk Gindt received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies in 2007 and is ...

Jewelle Gomez

Jewelle Gomez is the author of seven books including the double Lambda Literary ...

J. Richard Gruber

J. Richard Gruber Ph.D. is director emeritus of the Ogden Museum of ...

John Guare

John Guare's latest play A Free Man of Color was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize ...

Barbara Hambly

A former New Orleans resident, Barbara Hambly continues her well-reviewed Benjamin January ...

Nigel Hamilton

Nigel Hamilton has written extensively about life-writing in books such as Biography: ...

C.S. Harris/Candice Proctor

C. S. Harris (aka Candice Proctor) is the bestselling author of the ...

Miles Harvey

Miles Harvey is the author of Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange ...

Ava Leavell Haymon

Ava Leavell Haymon is the author of the poetry collections Kitchen Heat ...

Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel is the author of four collections of stories. Her first ...

Greg Herren

Greg Herren is the award-winning author of twelve mystery novels set in ...

Foster Hirsch

Foster Hirsch is Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, a frequent host and ...

Dr. Michael S. D. Hooper

Dr. Michael S. D. Hooper is the author of Sexual Politics in ...

Jed Horne

Jed Horne’s books include Desire Street about a Louisiana death row case, ...

David Johnson

David Johnson is executive editor of Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine and KnowLA, ...

Julie Kane

Julie Kane is the current Louisiana Poet Laureate. Her two most recent ...

David Kaplan

David Kaplan is curator and co-founder of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater ...

Michele Karlsberg

Michele Karlsberg brings a unique combination of skills to effectively carry out publicity/marketing ...

Thomas Keith

Thomas Keith edits all the Tennessee Williams titles for New Directions, which have ...

Peggy Scott Laborde

Peggy Scott Laborde is the senior producer for WYES-TV, and host of ...

Susan Larson

Susan Larson is the vice president for literary programming for the Festival. ...

Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie is an actress of stage and screen known for her ...

Zachary Lazar

Zachary Lazar is the author the novel Sway, a Best Book of 2008 in ...

Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan books: By a Spider’s Thread, The Last Place, The Sugar House, Baltimore Blues, Charm ...

Richard Louth

Richard Louth is a Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he ...

Robert Mann

Robert Mann holds the Manship Chair in Journalism at the Manship School ...

John Mariani

John Mariani is a columnist for Esquire and Bloomberg News, an author ...

Jodie Markell

Jodie Markell attended Northwestern University and studied at New York’s Circle-in-the-Square Theater. ...

Bev Marshall

Bev Marshall is writer-in-residence at Southeastern Louisiana University and the author of ...

Benjamin Morris

A native of Mississippi, Benjamin Morris is the author of Coronary, a ...

Victor Navasky

Victor S. Navasky has served as editor, publisher, and now publisher emeritus ...

Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton

Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton has worked in all facets of the publishing industry ...

Ted O’Brien

Ted O’Brien was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in the Midwest. He ...

Roger Ogden

A real estate developer, civic leader, and philanthropist, Roger Ogden co-founded Stirling ...

Greg Osborn

Gregory Osborn is a native of Southern California and works in the ...

Alison Pelegrin

Alison Pelegrin is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Big Muddy ...

Diana Pinckley

Diana Pinckley has been an avid mystery fan since second grade, when ...

Amanda Plummer

Amanda Plummer has received critical acclaim for her work in film, television, ...

John Pope

John Pope is a reporter for The Times-Picayune. He was part of ...

Lawrence N. Powell

Lawrence N. Powell has taught history at Tulane University since 1978. From ...

Radclyffe

Radclyffe has published over thirty-five novels as well as dozens of short stories, ...

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is a writer whose work has appeared in Transition, The New York Times, ...

Gary Richards

Gary Richards is the author of Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, ...

Win Riley

Win Riley is a director, writer, and producer. His first film, Walter ...

Bill Rittenberg

Bill Rittenberg is a partner in the New Orleans firm of Rittenberg, ...

George Rodrigue

Born and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana, artist George Rodrigue is best ...

Davis Rogan

Davis Rogan is a musician, songwriter, bandleader and former WWOZ DJ. Rogan ...

Annette J. Saddik

Annette J. Saddik is Professor of Theatre and English at the City University ...

Tom Sancton

Tom Sancton worked for 22 years as a writer, editor, and correspondent ...

Michael Sartisky

For the past twenty-nine years, Michael Sartisky has been president and executive director ...

David Savran

David Savran is the author of eight books, including Communists, Cowboys and ...

Laura Ellen Scott

Laura Ellen Scott's debut novel is Death Wishing, a comic fantasy set

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Daniel J. Sharfstein

Daniel J. Sharfstein, author of The Invisible Line, is an associate professor of ...

Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman’s plays include Fat Tuesday, Passing By, Crack, Rio Grande, Bent, Messiah, Some Sunny Day, Rose, A Passage to India (from ...

Julie Smith

Julie Smith is the author of more than twenty novels, most set in ...

Keith Spera

Keith Spera writes about music for The Times-Picayune. In 2005, he was a member ...

Nick Spitzer

Nick Spitzer created and hosts “American Routes," the nationally heard public ...

Claudia Sternbach

Claudia Sternbach is the editorial board chair of Memoir Journal and editor-in-chief of their celebrated ...

David Henry Sterry

David Henry Sterry is the co-author of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book ...

John Swenson

John Swenson has written about popular music for Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone, Circus, Rock World, Saturday Review, and OffBeat. He ...

Gwen Thompkins

Gwen Thompkins is a journalist and writer living in New Orleans. She began ...

Jessica Maria Tuccelli

Jessica Maria Tuccelli's debut novel, Glow, is set in the mountains of ...

Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward’s second novel Salvage The Bones won the 2011 National Book Award ...

Charles Zewe

Charles Zewe is the LSU System Vice President for Communication and External ...

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