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Maria Acevedo
Disability Experiences in Children’s Books
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/308
Acevedo is an assistant professor at UMass-Boston. She researches intercultural understanding and the importance of play and inquiry in curricula for young children.
Cynthia Alaniz
Notable Books for K-8 Readers
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/308
Alaniz is an elementary school librarian in Coppell, Texas. She has over 25 years experience as an elementary educator and a strong and undying passion for reading, books and children’s literature.
John Alcock
The Glorious Insect World
Sat., 10 a.m. National Parks Experience
Alcock is an Emeritus Regents’ Professor in the School of Life Science at Arizona State University, where he taught from 1973 until 2008. He is the author of “After the Wildfire” and “When the Rain Comes.”
Lori Alexander
Backhoe Joe with Lori Alexander
Sun., 1 p.m. Story Blanket Tent
Alexander’s debut picture book, “Backhoe Joe,” will be followed by “Famously Phoebe” this summer. She lives in Tucson .
Julissa Arce
All that Glitters: Redefining Success
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/218
The Color of Success is Not Always Green
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Learning Curve: Education and the Children of Immigrants
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Arce is a writer, speaker and social-justice advocate. She is the author of “My (Underground) American Dream” and the co-founder of the Ascend Educational Fund.
Shelley Armitage
Writing What You Know: Women Writing Their Experience
Sat., 11:30 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Great Places and Honoring Others
Sun., 10 a.m. National Parks Experience
Inspired by Place: Writing the Places that Shaped You
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/130
Armitage is professor emerita at the University of Texas-El Paso. She is the author of eight books and over 50 articles, and her most recent book is “Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place.”
John Ash
Cooking “Wild” — Learn to Eat Close to Nature
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Culinary Stage
Ash travels the world teaching cooking classes to both home cooks and professionals. Two of his four cookbooks, including “Culinary Birds: The Ultimate Poultry Cookbook,” have received James Beard Awards.
Jennifer Ashley
Putting the Sex in Sexy
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Kachina
Romance A to Z
Sun., 1 p.m. Koffler/216
Best-seller Ashley uses the pseudonyms Ashley Gardner and Allyson James. Her books include “Pride Mates,” “Lady Isabella’s Scandalous Marriage” and “Stormwalker.”
Nancy Atkinson
Incredible Stories from Space
Sat., 1 p.m. Science Main Stage
Atkinson is the editor and writer for Universe Today, a popular astronomy news site. Her book is “Incredible Stories from Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos.”
Seemi Aziz
The Portrayal of Parents and Grandparents in Children’s Books
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/310
Aziz is the author of “Teaching Islamic Art for Understanding of Islamic Culture.” She focuses on global literature for children and adolescents.
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Jessixa Bagley
Moving and Memorable: Stories that Warm your Heart
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/351
Laundry Day with Jessixa Bagley
Sat., Noon Story Blanket Tent
Illustrator Studio: Unknowing Watercolor
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/437
Creating Stories from Family Experiences
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/333
Bagley is the author of “Laundry Day,” “Before I Leave” and “Boats for Papa,” for younger readers.
Shannon Baker
Murders of the Purple Sage
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/216
Baker is the author of “Stripped Bare,” the first book in her Kate Fox mystery series. She was named 2014 Writer of the Year by the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.
Colette Bancroft
The Book Reviewer’s Beat
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/150
Workshop: Everybody’s A Critic
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/119
Before becoming book editor at the Tampa Bay Times, Bancroft was a reporter and editor at the Arizona Daily Star and an English instructor at the University of South Florida and the University of Arizona.
Brunonia Barry
Fantastic Fiction
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/150
Blockbuster Novelists
Sun., 11:30 a.m. UA BookStore
Setting As Character
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/218
Barry is the author of “The Lace Reader” and “The Map of True Places.” She was the first American author to win the International Women’s Fiction Festival’s Baccante Award.
Jane Bean-Folkes
Exploring Diverse Books for Home and School: Chicano Books for Kids
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/308
Bean-Folkes is an assistant professor in the department of education at Marist College. She teaches literacy classes and workshops on multicultural books and reviews and consults on elementary literacy.
Mark Beauregard
Page-Turning Tucsonans
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Nineteenth Century Icons
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Kachina
Beauregard is the author of “The Whale: A Love Story,” a novel about the writing of “Moby-Dick,” which The Washington Post called “an impressive feat of authorly ventriloquism.”
Dwayne Betts
A Conversation on Segregated Spaces
Sat., 10 a.m. SBS Tent
Poetry and Prison
Sun., 10 a.m. SBS Tent
Poetry reading with Alison Deming and Reginald Dwayne Betts
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Kiva
Betts is the author of three books, including the poetry collection “Bastards of the Reagan Era” and the memoir “A Question of Freedom.” He recently graduated from Yale Law School.
David Biello
Humans and a Changing Earth
Sat., 1 p.m. National Parks Experience
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places: Man vs. Nature and the Future of Civilization
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Science Main Stage
Biello is an award-winning journalist and the author of “Unnatural World,” his first book. He is an editor at Scientific American and hosts the PBS documentary “Beyond the Light Switch.”
Cara Black
Passport to Death
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Espionage Most Deadly
Sun., 1 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Black writes the best-selling Aimée Leduc Investigations. Her 15th novel in the series, “Murder on the Champ de Mars,” is due in March. Her novels have been nominated for the Macavity and Anthony awards.
Cheryl Blackford
Writing and Selling Your First Novel
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/333
The Impact of War and Conflict
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/351
Writing and Selling Books for Middle Grade Readers
Sun., 4 p.m. Education/333
Blackford left her job as a technical writer to fulfill a lifelong ambition to write for children. Her recent books are “Lizzie and The Lost Baby” and “Hungry Coyote.”
Kristin Block
Incredible Stories from Space
Sat., 1 p.m. Science Main Stage
Women Writing about Women in Science
Sun., 1 p.m. Science Main Stage
Block, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, works on spacecraft science operations and is a senior targeting specialist for NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Andrew Bloomfield
Workshop: Writing Memoirs — A Spiritual Journey
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/151
Rescuing Animals
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Kachina
Bloomfield has traveled the world and incorporates much of what he’s learned into his writing. His latest memoir is “Call of the Cats: What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony.”
Johnny Boggs
Western Writers of America Spur Award Winners
Sun., 10 a.m. Modern Languages/350
How the West is Fun
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Kachina
Boggs has won six Spur Awards and a Western Heritage Wrangler Award for his fiction. He was a former newspaper journalist in Texas. His most recent book is “Return to Red River.”
Tonya Bolden
Thinking Like Historians in Writing Nonfiction
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/351
People Who Changed the World
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/351
Taking Action/Making a Difference
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/351
Bolden’s award-winning works include “Pathfinders: The Story of 17 Extraordinary Black Souls,” “Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl” and “Beautiful Moon.”
Ila Borders
Unique Women in Sports History
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Little-Known Sports Heroines
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/150
Borders is the author of “Making My Pitch,” her story about being the first woman in the modern era to win a professional men’s baseball game and what it’s like to be the only woman on the field — and the bus.
T.C. Boyle
T. C. Boyle / The Terranauts
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Boyle’s newest novel, “The Terranauts,” is set in the desert near Tucson in a fictional version of Biosphere II. An icon of American fiction, he is the best-selling author of 25 books.
Alexandra Bracken
Dystopian Worlds: Mazes of Time, Space and Memory
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/Kiva
Moving Through Alternative Worlds
Sun., 1 p.m. Teen and Author Stage
The Impact of War and Conflict
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/351
Bracken, a best-selling author, sold her first book as a senior in college, worked in children’s book publishing and now writes full time. Her recent books include “Wayfarer” and “Passenger.”
Karen Brennan
Reading with Karen Brennan
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Kiva
Workshop: Writing and Publishing both Fiction and Poetry
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/119
Tucson Authors Tell All!
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Brennan is the author of seven books, most recently, “Monsters,” short stories. She is emerita professor of English at the University of Utah and core faculty at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Marie Brennan
Dragons!
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/130
Uncanny London
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/218
Ladies of Steampunk
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Brennan habitually pillages her background in anthropology, archaeology and folklore for fictional purposes. Her most recent book is “In the Labyrinth of Drakes.”
Stephen Brewer, M.D.
A Prescription for Men’s Health
Sat., 4 p.m. UA BookStore
Brewer is the medical director of the Canyon Ranch health resort in Tucson and a board-certified family physician. Brewer’s program helps individuals excel in their health and personal and professional goals.
Douglas Brinkley
Rightful Heritage
Sat., 1 p.m. Arizona Daily Star Tent
Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University, has written seven New York Times Notable Books of the Year. His newest book is “Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America.”
Chris Britt
Moving and Memorable: Stories that Warm your Heart
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/351
Cartooning for Kids: A Drawing Workshop for Ages 5-10
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/349
The Most Perfect Snowman with Chris Britt
Sat., 3 p.m. Story Blanket Tent
On Your Mark, Get Set, Draw: Illustrator Draw-Off
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/353
Britt’s cartoons are syndicated in over 200 newspapers nationally and internationally and are aired on CNN’s “Inside Politics.” His first picture book is “The Most Perfect Snowman.”
Patricia L. Brooks
Book PR: Get Your Game On!
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
How to Boost Book Sales with Social Media
Sun., 4 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
Brooks is an award-winning author, speaker, publishing consultant and advocate. Her memoir, “Three Husbands and a Thousand Boyfriends,” addresses love addiction, domestic violence and post-traumatic stress.
Jonathan Bryant
Slavery in America
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Bryant is author of “Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope.” As a professor of history at Georgia Southern University, he loves unearthing tales that have been forgotten.
Stephen Buchmann
The Glorious Insect World
Sat., 10 a.m. National Parks Experience
Buchmann is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees and is an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona. He is the author of 11 books, including most recently, “The Reason for Flowers.”
James Burks
Graphic Novels Rule the World
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/Kiva
Writing and Selling Books for Middle Grade Readers
Sun., 4 p.m. Education/333
Burks is the author of the Bird & Squirrel graphic novel series for Graphix/Scholastic, as well as the illustrator for the Branches series “Haggis and Tank Unleashed.”
Andrew Burstein
U.S. Presidents: Jefferson, Madison, Nixon and Eisenhower
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/204
Political Legacies: Thomas Jefferson and Eleanor Roosevelt
Sat., 2:30 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Renowned Jefferson scholar Burstein is a professor of history at Louisiana State University. His latest book is “Democracy’s Muse,” about the partisan uses of Jefferson’s life and legacy.
Victoria Bynum
Class, Race and Politics in America
Sat., 4 p.m. Koffler/204
The Hidden Civil War
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/130
Bynum is the author of several books, including “The Free State of Jones,” the basis of a major motion picture. She is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Texas State University-San Marcos.
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Richard Cahan
WWII: Japanese-American Internment
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Capturing History
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
Workshop: Publishing for Photographers
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/119
Cahan is the author and co-author of many books, including “Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II,” which he wrote with Michael Williams.
Sharon Cameron
Dystopian Worlds: Mazes of Time, Space and Memory
Sun., 10 a.m. Education Kiva
Dystopian Societies: Resist or Perish
Sun., 2 p.m. Teen and Author Stage
Cameron is the author of “The Dark Unwinding” and its sequel, “A Spark Unseen.” Her book “Rook” is an Indie Bound Indie Next List Top Ten selection. “The Forgetting” is her latest novel.
Jillian Cantor
Dramatic Social and Political Change
Sun., 10 a.m. Koffler/218
Jewish Lives and Histories
Sun., 1 p.m. ILC/120
Cantor is the author of “The Hours Count,” a novel about spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, as seen through the eyes of a fictional neighbor, and “Margot,” a novel about Anne Frank’s sister in post-war America.
Philip Caputo
Jim Harrison Tribute: The Lawrence Clark Powell Memorial Lecture
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/120
Pulitzer Prize-winner Caputo’s newest book is “Some Rise by Sin.” His acclaimed Vietnam memoir, “A Rumor of War,” is being republished in a special 40th-anniversary edition this summer.
Marilyn Carpenter
2017 Award-Winning Fiction and Nonfiction
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/308
Carpenter has 20 years of experience in literacy and literature for children and young adults. Her blog, The Children’s Book Compass, reviews new books for children and teens.
Donis Casey
Cry Havoc! Baffling Battlefronts
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/130
Workshop: Writing Historical Mysteries
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/137
Casey is the author of the Alafair Tucker Mysteries, a series that features the sleuthing mother of 10 children in Oklahoma during the first part of the 20th century. The latest is “All Men Fear Me.”
Beth Cato
Writing Hurdles
Sun., 10 a.m. Koffler/216
Ladies of Steampunk
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Cato’s short fiction can be found in Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and many other magazines. “The Clockwork Dagger” is her first novel.
Brittany Cavallaro
Writing Workshop on Creating Characters
Sat., 1 p.m. Teen Lounge
Detectives and Superheroes: Catching Criminals and Solving Problems
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/353
Girls to the Rescue
Sun., 10:30 a.m. Teen and Author Stage
Cavallaro wrote the Charlotte Holmes novels, “A Study in Charlotte” and “The Last of August,” and the poetry collection “Girl-King.” She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
Adrienne Celt
Stories Within Stories
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Tucson Authors Tell All!
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Myth and Memory
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Celt’s first novel “The Daughters,” won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines; she also publishes a web comic at loveamongthelampreys.com
Angela Cervantes
Finding Your Inner Hero as a Girl
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/353
Where are We? Latinos in Children’s Books
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/351
Cervantes won a Latino Literacy Now’s International Latino Book Award for “Gaby Lost and Found.” Her newest book is “Allie, First at Last.” Cervantes founded the Latino Writers Collective.
Jeff Chang
A Conversation on Segregated Spaces
Sat., 10 a.m. SBS Tent
We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
Sun., 11:30 a.m. SBS Tent
Chang, the author of “We Gon’ Be Alright,” has written extensively on culture, politics, music and the arts. He is the executive director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University.
Asia McClain Chapman
Figuring Out the True Crime
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Kachina
Workshop: Investigative Journalism and Communication
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/141
Innocence Lost: Teenagers and Crime
Sun., 1 p.m. UA BookStore
McClain attended high school in Baltimore with Adnan Syed, convicted of a 1999 murder. McClain had written to Syed with an alibi but was never contacted. Syed was granted a new trial in 2016.
Elizabeth J. Church
World War II from Los Alamos to Germany
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Transformative Characters
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
“The Atomic Weight of Love” is the first novel for Church, whose father worked on the Manhattan Project. She lives in Los Alamos, N.M., a fine place for access to female mathematicians and scientists.
Steven Church
Conflict and Coexistence: What Animals Teach Us About Our Humanity
Sat., 4 p.m. SBS Tent
How We Speak to One Another: Explorations of the Essay
Sun., 1 p.m. SBS Tent
Church is the author of five books, including his latest nonfiction work, “One With the Tiger.” He is a contributor to the essay collection “How We Speak to One Another” and teaches at Fresno State.
Tom Clavin
The Mythic West
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/130
Clavin has been a roving writer for the New York Times and editor-in-chief of a chain of weeklies. His latest book is “Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West.”
Thomas Cobb
Blockbuster Novelists
Sun., 11:30 a.m. UA BookStore
Cobb is the author of the novels “Darkness the Color of Snow,” “With Blood in Their Eyes” and “Crazy Heart,” which was adapted to film and won a Best Actor Academy Award for Jeff Bridges.
Laura Coffey
Rescuing Animals
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Kachina
Dogs, Wild and Working
Sat., 4 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
No Dog Should Die Alone
Sun., 10 a.m. Arizona Daily Star Tent
Cats vs. Dogs
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/150
Coffey, an award-winning features journalist, recently won the Dog Writers Association of America’s Best Book of the Year award for her first book, “My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts.”
Adam Cohen
National Book Award Salute
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Civil Rights and the Supreme Court
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Cohen is a former member of the New York Times editorial board and senior writer for Time magazine. His most recent book, “Imbeciles,”was nominated for a National Book Award.
John Coinman
Workshop: Song Writing
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/137
Coinman, an award-winning singer-songwriter, has recorded five solo CD’s and numerous songs for film and TV. He was the music supervisor for “Dances with Wolves” and tours with Kevin Costner and his band.
Joe Conason
The Real Story Behind Fake News
Sat., 10 a.m. Arizona Daily Star Tent
From the New Journalism to Clickbait
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/150
Big Money or Big Philanthropy?
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Freedom of the Press
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
“Man of the World” is the engrossing journey of Bill Clinton’s years after the White House. Who better than Conason, who has written the Clintons’ story for years, to give us this next chapter?
Daniel Connolly
Immigration: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Kachina
Workshop: Writing Nonfiction — Getting (and Staying!) Organized
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/137
Workshop: Nonfiction — Finding an Agent
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/137
Humanity Behind the Headlines: Immigration Issues
Sun., 10 a.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Learning Curve: Education and the Children of Immigrants
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Connolly is a journalist who has covered Mexican immigration to the South. He is the author of “The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America”.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Political Legacies: Thomas Jefferson and Eleanor Roosevelt
Sat., 2:30 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/204
Cook, a professor at the John Jay College and Graduate Center, is the author of “The Declassified Eisenhower,” “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution” and three biographies of Eleanor Roosevelt. Susan Corapi
Disability Experiences in Children’s Books
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/308
Corapi is a literacy professor at Trinity College in Deerfield, Ill. Her passion for global literature stems from living in several countries for extended periods of time.
Ken Corbett
A Murder Over a Girl
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/150
Motivation for Crime
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Kachina
Corbett, the author of “A Murder Over a Girl: Gender, Justice, Junior High,” is clinical assistant professor at New York University’s postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
Sue Corbin
A Painless Approach to Writing Poetry
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/308
Corbin was on the Notable Books for a Global Society award committee and is chair of the literacy department for the Division of Professional Education at Notre Dame.
Matthew Cordell
Moving and Memorable: Stories that Warm your Heart
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/351
Bob, Not Bob with Matthew Cordell
Sat., 1:30 p.m. Story Blanket Tent
Illustrator Studio: Fast and Loose Drawing with Inks and Pencils
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/437
Cordell wrote and illustrated “Wolf in the Snow,” “Wish” and “Hello! Hello!” He also illustrated “Bob, Not Bob,” “Special Delivery” and the Justin Case series.
Shelley Costa
Malice Domestic
Sun., 10 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Workshop: Constructing Cozy Mysteries
Sun., 1 p.m. ILC/137
Costa is the author of the Agatha Award-nominated “You Cannoli Die Once.” Book two in the series, “Basil Instinct,” came out last year. She was been an Edgar Award for Best Short Story nominee.
Peter Cozzens
Indian Wars: From Spanish Conquest to Wounded Knee
Sat., 4 p.m. Koffler/218
The Hidden Civil War
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/130
Cozzens is the author or editor of 17 acclaimed books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. His latest book is “The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West.”
Desiree Cueto
Disability Experiences in Children’s Books
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/308
Recommended Children’s Books with LGBTQ Characters
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/310
Cueto is an assistant professor at Western Washington University teaching children’s literature and language arts. She previously served as director of multicultural curriculum for TUSD.
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James Dashner
Maze Runner: A Saga of Survival
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/Kiva
Dystopian Worlds: Mazes of Time, Space and Memory
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/Kiva
Dashner is the author of the New York Times best-selling Maze Runner series and the Mortality Doctrine series. His newest book is “Fever Code,” a prequel to “The Maze Runner.”
Peter Ho Davies
Writers for a New Generation
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Immigration Stories
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Davies is the award-winning author of four works of fiction; his new novel is “The Fortunes.” Born in Britain to Welsh and Chinese parents, he teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Conflict and Coexistence: What Animals Teach Us About Our Humanity
Sat., 4 p.m. SBS Tent
Poetry Reading with Alison Deming and Reginald Dwayne Betts
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Kiva
Deming’s most recent books are the poetry collection “Stairway to Heaven” and the nonfiction “Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit.” She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona.
Ginia Desmond
Screenwriting: Getting it Right
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
From Script to Screen
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
Desmond is a writer and producer, known for “Lucky U Ranch,” “VOTE (Smart)” and “Santiago’s Children.”
Desmond Devenish
Workshop: Navigating the Entertainment Industry
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/151
From Script to Screen
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
Devenish is a producer and writer, known for “Misfortune,” “Gregory Porter: Don’t Forget Your Music” and “Closure.”
Amy Dickinson
Hot Off the Press
Sat., 8:30 a.m. Student Union/S. Ballroom
Writing What You Know: Women Writing Their Experience
Sat., 11:30 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Arizona Daily Star Tent
Dickinson is the author of the nationally syndicated “Ask Amy” advice column and the New York Times best-selling memoir, “The Mighty Queens of Freeville.”
Bruce Dinges
The Hidden Civil War
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/130
Dinges is director of publications at the Arizona Historical Society, editor of The Journal of Arizona History and co-editor of “A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir.”
Kelly DiPucchio
Tips for Writing and Selling a Picture Book Manuscript: Getting Your Rabbit’s Foot Through the Door
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/333
Antoinette with Kelly DiPucchio
Sat., 11:15 a.m. Story Blanket Tent
The Writer/Illustrator Connection: It Takes Two
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/Kiva
DiPucchio is the award-winning, best-selling author of “Gaston” and “Antoinette,” and other books for kids, including “Crafty Chloe,” “Zombie in Love” and “Grace for President.”
Nicholas Dodman BVMS, MRCVS, DACVB
Pets on the Couch
Sat., 10 a.m. UA BookStore
Feline Science and Cat Facts
Sat., 1 p.m. Koffler/218
Dodman is internationally recognized and sought after as a leader in animal behavior. He is the author of “Pets on the Couch,” “The Dog Who Loved Too Much,” “Good Old Dog” and “The Well-Adjusted Dog”
John Donvan
The Story of Autism
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/204
Autism Up To Now
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/204
Donvan is a host and moderator of the Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates. He and Caren Zucker created the pioneering series, “Echoes of Autism,” to help understand the lives of individuals living with autism.
J.L. Doty
Workshop: Writing Science Fiction with Real-Life Scientists
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/141
Doty’s 10th science fiction and fantasy book, “Never Dead Enough” is out this year. His success came when the self-published “Child of the Sword” went word-of-mouth viral four years ago.
Maureen Dowd
Politics: The 2016 Election
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Freedom of the Press
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
With acerbic humor, Pulitzer Prize recipient Dowd’s “The Year Of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics” traces our unpopular presidential candidates in the last insane, perilous race.
Joe Drape
Unique Women in Sports History
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Writing Lyrically About Sports
Sat., 4 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Workshop: Sportswriting
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/137
Drape is a reporter for The New York Times who has covered thoroughbred racing for two decades. He is a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award and is the author of six books, including “American Pharaoh.”
Christine Draper
Notable Books for K-8 Readers
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/308
Sharing and Writing Poetry with Children
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/310
Draper is a former elementary and middle-school teacher who teaches young-adult and children’s literature at Georgia Southern University.
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Zulema V. Echerivel-Felix
¡Buen Provecho! Treasured Secret Flavors
Sun., 1 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Echerivel-Felix, who had a successful career at Hughes/Raytheon, has family roots in Chihuahua, where home-grown vegetables, beef and lamb laid the foundation for her simple, fresh, home-style cooking.
Jonathan Eig
The Birth of the Pill
Sat., 4 p.m. Arizona Daily Star Tent
Eig is the author of “Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig,” “Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season” and, most recently, “The Birth of the Pill.”
Chris Eliopoulos
People Who Changed the World
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/351
Drawing Cartoons: Workshop for Ages 5-10
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/349
Eliopoulos began his illustration career as a letterer for Marvel and is the author/artist of many comic books. He is the illustrator of the picturebook biography series, Ordinary People Change the World.
Amy Engel
Hot Off the Press
Sat., 8:30 a.m. Student Union/S. Ballroom
Literary Thriller
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Fatal Family Secrets
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Engel is the author of the young-adult series The Book of Ivy. “The Roanoke Girls” is her first novel for adults. She is a former criminal defense attorney.
Álvaro Enrigue
Writers for a New Generation
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Timeless: Fiction without Boundaries
Sat., 4 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Enrigue was a Cullman Center Fellow and a Fellow at the Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies. His novel, “Sudden Death,” is translated from Spanish.
Chris Enss
Western Writers of America Spur Award Winners
Sun., 10 a.m. Modern Languages/350
The newest books from Enss, a New York Times best-selling author, are “Ma Barker,” “Soldier, Sister, Spy, Scout” and “None Wounded, None Missing, All Dead.”
Joshua Essoe
Workshop: Ask a Sci-Fi Editor
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/119
Essoe, a freelance editor, is the editor of a new anthology with James A. Owen. He was recently a finalist in the Writers of the Future contest.
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Lillian Faderman
LGBTQ Keynote
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Lillian Faderman and The Gay Revolution
Sun., 1 p.m. Koffler/204
Faderman is an internationally known scholar of LGBT and ethnic history and literature. “The Gay Revolution” is a 2015 New York Times Notable Book and 2016 Stonewall Honor Book.
Mary Fahrenbruck
Mathematical Perspectives of Children’s Books
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/310
Fahrenbruck is a former elementary school teacher and avid reader of children’s literature. She enjoys thinking about story plots and using math to better understand the events as they unfold.
Juliette Fay
Dramatic Social and Political Change
Sun., 10 a.m. Koffler/218
Transformative Characters
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Fay is the award-winning author of “Shelter Me,” “Deep Down True,” “The Shortest Way Home” and now, “The Tumbling Turner Sisters.”
Celestino Fernández
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert
Sun., 4 p.m. SBS Tent
Fernández is a co-editor of “Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert.” He served as a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona for 39 years until his retirement in 2015.
Bryan Allen Fierro
California Dreamers: A Reality Check
Sat., 10 a.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
The Art of the Short Story
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Fierro lives in Alaska, where he works as a firefighter and paramedic. He is the recipient of the Poets and Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award in Fiction. His
book is “Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul.”
Meg Files
Writing What You Know: Women Writing Their Experience
Sat., 11:30 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Files is the author of the novels “Meridian 144,” The Third Law of Motion” and “Home Is the Hunter and Other Stories.” Her latest is “Writing What You Know,” a guide for emerging authors.
William Finnegan
Winning the Pulitzer Prize
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/120
Writing Lyrically About Sports
Sat., 4 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Outdoor Adventure Writing
Sun., 11:30 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Finnegan is a staff writer for the New Yorker, where he has won two Overseas Press Club awards. His autobiography, “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life” won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize.
David Fitzsimmons
Arroyo Cafe Old Pueblo Radio Show
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
How Well Do You Know Tucson?
Sun., 4 p.m. Arizona Daily Star Tent
Fitzsimmons is the political cartoonist and an editorialist for the Arizona Daily Star. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the illustrator of “A Border Runs Through It” by James “Big Jim” Griffith.
Dan Flores
Dogs, Wild and Working
Sat., 4 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
The Mysterious Ways of Nature
Sun., 11:30 a.m. National Parks Experience
Flores, the A.B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana, has written 10 books. The newest is “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History.”
Ron Fournier
Love That Boy
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Arizona Daily Star Tent
Raising Kids Who Break the Mold
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/218
Fournier is publisher and editor for Crain’s Detroit Business. His book, “Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent’s Expectations” is a best-seller.
Phoebe Fox
Up Up Up with Phoebe Fox, Michael Hale
Sun., 11:15 a.m. Story Blanket Tent
Creating Books for Very Young Children
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/333
First Edition: Submitting a Manuscript to Book Competitions
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/349
Fox has been an elementary school teacher and library media specialist. The mother of three enjoys writing and collecting children’s books, which led to her first picturebook, “Up Up Up.”
Glenn Frankel
Hot Off the Press
Sat., 8:30 a.m. Student Union /S. Ballroom
The Mythic West
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/130
Writing Popular History
Sun., 2:30 p.m. UA BookStore
Frankel is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and former editor of the Washington Post Sunday magazine. His latest book is “High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic.”
Emily Fridlund
Fantastic Fiction
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/150
Stories Within Stories
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Fridlund’s debut novel is “History of Wolves.” Her story collection “Catapult” won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Peter Friederici
The Colorado River: Water in a Thirsty Land
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/120
Water in a Changing Climate
Sat., 4 p.m. Science Main Stage
Landscape Photography
Sun., 11:30 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Friederici is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about science, nature and the environment from his home in Arizona. His articles, essays and books tell stories linking people and places.
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Ron Garan
Orbital Perspectives
Sat., 10 a.m. Science Main Stage
Garan is a fighter pilot and test pilot, explorer, entrepreneur and humanitarian who believes that targeted social enterprise can solve many of the world’s problems. His book is “The Orbital Perspective.”
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
The Tejana: Another State of Mind
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Interview with Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Racial Injustice:The Courage to Act
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/353
Garcia McCall’s latest novel “Shame the Stars” is a reimagining of “Romeo and Juliet,” set during the time of the Mexican Revolution in South Texas. Her YA novel “Under the Mesquite” won the Pura Belpré Award.
Jeff Garvin
Depicting LGBTQ Experiences in Books for Teens
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/351
Slackers and Musicians in YA Books
Sat., 3 p.m. Teen and Author Stage
Garvin’s debut novel, “Symptoms of Being Human,” tells the story of Riley, a 16-year-old gender-fluid teen who starts an anonymous blog to deal with hostility from classmates and tension at home.
Becca Gasiewicz
Reading Around the World: Award-Winning Books
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/308
Gasiewicz has a particular interest in using informational books to teach content and enjoyment. She teaches at the University of Cincinnati and tutors children.
Cyndi Giorgis
Series Books to Grow and Support Today’s Readers
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/310
Giorgis has chaired the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction committee and served on Caldecott and Newbery committees. She reviews books and publishes interviews with authors and illustrators.
Kathleen Glasgow
Writing and Selling Your First Novel
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/333
Tough Questions, Tougher Answers
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/351
Glasgow, a Tucsonan, writes for The Writer’s Almanac. She wrote the New York Times best-seller “Girl in Pieces.” Appearing courtesy of HarperCollins.
Peter Goin
The Colorado River: Water in a Thirsty Land
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/120
Water in a Changing Climate
Sat., 4 p.m. Science Main Stage
Landscape Photography
Sun., 11:30 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Goin is not just a visual storyteller, but a writer, researcher, scholar and photographer. He is the co-author of “A New Form of Beauty: Glen Canyon Beyond Climate Change” with Peter Friederici.
Andrea Gonzales
Girls Rule
Sat., 12:30 p.m. Teen and Author Stage
Girl Code: A Coding Workshop for Teens
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/349
Gonzales and Sophie Houser met and discovered the power of coding at Girls Who Code in 2014. They created a simple eight-bit video game, “Tampon Run,” that went viral and co-wrote “Girl Code.”
Maria Goodavage
Dogs, Wild and Working
Sat., 4 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Cats vs. Dogs
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/150
Former USA Today journalist Goodavage is the author of “Soldier Dogs,” “Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca,” and now “Secret Service Dogs: The Heroes Who Protect the President of the United States.”
C.A. Goody
The Adventures of Charlie the Cat
Sun., 3 p.m. Entertainment/Storytelling Stage
Goody’s nine-book series was inspired when Charlie the cat disappeared and turned up 20 miles away. She wondered what happened during his absence and wrote “Charlie’s Great Adventure.”
Mira Grant
Apocalypse 101: How to Destroy the World
Sat., 11:30 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Policing the Paranormal
Sat., 4 p.m. Koffler/216
Why So Serious?
Sun., 4 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Grant, writing as urban fantasy author Seanan McGuire, received the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her most recent novel is “Feedback.” Other titles include “Countdown” and “Parasite.”
Elizabeth Greenwood
Figuring Out the True Crime
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Kachina
Motivation for Crime
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Kachina
Fact, Fiction, and Fraud
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/216
Greenwood teaches at Columbia University. Her writings have appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, Atlantic and VICE. “Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud,” is her first book.
Nikki Grimes
One Last Word: Celebrating and Writing Poetry with Children
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/310
Racial Injustice: The Courage to Act
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/353
Bullying: From Invisibility to Intimidation
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/353
Best-selling author Grimes has won many awards for her books, which include “Bronx Masquerade” and “Jazmin’s Notebook.” Her newest are “One Last Word,” “Garvey’s Choice” and “Words with Wings.”
Andrew Gross
Cry Havoc! Baffling Battlefronts
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/130
Thrillers to Die For!
Sat., 1 p.m. UA Mall Tent
By the Book
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Espionage Most Deadly
Sun., 1 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Books by New York Times best-selling author Gross include “15 Seconds,” “Eyes Wide Open” and “Reckless.” He has co-authored six No. 1 best-sellers with James Patterson.
Barbara Grygutis
Women Breaking the Mold
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
Through her art, Grygutis engages the public by identifying themes meaningful to specific communities. She is the author of “Public Art / Public Space: The Sculptural Environments of Barbara Grygutis.”
Elizabeth Gunn
Workshop: Mystery Writing
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/141
Gunn’s Sarah Burke detective series (with six titles so far) is set in Tucson. The latest title is “Denny’s Law.” She also writes the Jake Hines series, set in Minnesota.
Julian Guthrie
Big People, Big Ideas
Sat., 10 a.m. Koffler/218
Women Writing about Women in Science
Sun., 1 p.m. Science Main Stage
Guthrie is a journalist and winner of the Best of the West Award and other journalism prizes. Her current book is “How to Make a Spaceship.” She also wrote “The Billionaire and the Mechanic.”
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Dean Hale
Who Says Princesses Don’t Wear Black?
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/353
Detectives and Superheroes: Catching Criminals and Solving Problems
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/353
Dean and Shannon Hale wrote the graphic novels “Rapunzel’s Revenge” and “Calamity Jack” and the Princess in Black series. Their latest project is “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World.”
Michael Hale
Up Up Up with Phoebe Fox and Michael Hale
Sun., 11:15 a.m. Story Blanket Tent
Creating Books for Very Young Children
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/333
First Edition: Submitting a Manuscript to Book Competitions
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/349
Hale writes, designs and illustrates advertising campaigns. He has designed parade floats, museum exhibits, playgrounds and was creative director at The Phoenix Zoo. His first picturebook is “Up Up Up.”
Nathan Hale
Creating Graphic Novels
Sat., 1:30 p.m. Teen and Author Stage
Creating a Graphic Novel: A Workshop for Ages 9-14
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/349
Hale is the New York Times best-selling author/illustrator of the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales history series. He also illustrated the graphic novel, “Rapunzel’s Revenge.”
Shannon Hale
Who Says Princesses Don’t Wear Black?
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/353
Detectives and Superheroes: Catching Criminals and Solving Problems
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/353
Shannon and Dean Hale write graphic novels, the Princess in Black series and “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World.” Shannon also wrote “Princess Academy” and the popular Ever After High series.
Allan Hamilton, M.D.
Workshop: Lessons from a Life with Horses
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/119
Screenwriting: Getting it Right
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
A renowned horse trainer, Hamilton is the author of “Lead with Your Heart: Lessons From a Life with Horses” and “Zen Mind, Zen Horse.” He pioneered a program using horses to teach doctors bedside manners.
Mary Ellen Hannibal
Humans and a Changing Earth
Sat., 1 p.m. National Parks Experience
Great Places and Honoring Others
Sun., 10 a.m. National Parks Experience
Hannibal is a Bay Area writer and editor focusing on natural history. Her new book is “Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction.”
Stephen Harrigan
Nineteenth Century Icons
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Kachina
Writing Popular History
Sun., 2:30 p.m. UA BookStore
Harrigan is an acclaimed essayist and novelist whose works include “A Friend of Mr. Lincoln,” “Remember Ben Clayton,” “Gates of the Alamo” and TNT’s “King of Texas,” a retelling of Shakespeare’s “King Lear.”
Mette Ivie Harrison
Blood Ties
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/120
Malice Domestic
Sun., 10 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Killer Current Affairs
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Harrison is the author of many YA books, including “The Princess and the Hound” and “Mira, Mirror.” “For Time and All Eternities” is her newest adult mystery and is part of the Linda Wallheim series.
Joe Hayes
My Pet Rattlesnake with Joe Hayes
Sat., 12:45 p.m. Story Blanket Tent
Creating Stories from Family Experiences
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/333
Grandpa’s Hal-la-loo-ya Hambone
Sun., 11 a.m. Entertainment/Storytelling Stage
Story Development and Storytellling
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/310
Hayes, a bilingual storyteller, is the author of more than 20 children’s books including “My Pet Rattlesnake” and “The Day It Snowed Tortillas.” His newest book is “Grandpa’s Ha-la-loo-ya Hambone.”
Peter Hayes
Workshop: Writing History
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/151
Why? Explaining the Holocaust
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
WWII: Asking Why, Internment and the Holocaust
Sun., 2:30 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Hayes is a professor of history and the Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University. His new book is “Why?: Explaining the Holocaust.”
Victor Hazan
Ingredienti: An Italian Guide to the Market
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Culinary Stage
“Ingredienti” is a collection of the late Marcella Hazan’s writing on how to choose ingredients. It has been finished by her husband, Victor, who left a job in advertising to support his wife’s rising career.
Randy Henderson
Workshop: Plot vs. Character Arc
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/141
Why So Serious?
Sun., 4 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Henderson is the 2014 Writers of the Future grand prize winner. His latest book is “Smells like Finn Spirit.” He is a Clarion West graduate who writes from his hidden base in the Pacific Northwest.
Tim Z. Hernandez
Giving Voice to the Unheard
Sat., 10 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Collective Amnesia
Sat., 1 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Race in America
Sun., 10 a.m. Koffler/204
Workshop: Gathering Stories — Turning Testimony Into Books (Writing with Tim Z. Hernandez)
Sun., 1 p.m. ILC/151
Hernandez is an award-winning poet, novelist and performance artist. His most recent works include “All They Will Call You” and “Mañana Means Heaven.”
Juan Felipe Herrera
Poetry Reading: Juan Felipe Herrera
Sat., 11:30 a.m. SBS Tent
“Because We Come From Everything” Poetry and Migration
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Poet and performance artist Herrera is the author of many books of poetry and prose, as well as bilingual books for children. He is the 21st poet laureate of the United States.
Nathan Hill
Mothers and Sons
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Dazzling Debut Novels
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
Dysfunction Junction: Satire Begins at Home
Sun., 1 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Hill’s short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review and Fiction, which awarded him its annual Fiction Prize. His first novel is “The Nix.”
Anne Hillerman
Western Writers of America Spur Award Winners
Sun., 10 a.m. Modern Languages/350
Southwest Mysteries in Fact and Fiction
Sun., 2:30 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Hillerman continues the Leaphorn and Chee series begun by her father, Tony. The latest in the series is “Rock with Wings.” She is the author of many nonfiction books, including “Tony Hillerman’s Landscape.”
Alice Hoffman
An Interview with Alice Hoffman
Sat., 10 a.m. Modern Languages/350
Jewish Lives and Histories
Sun., 1 p.m. ILC/120
Hoffman has two new novels since last visiting Tucson: “Faithful,” newly out in hardcover, and “The Marriage of Opposites,” now in paperback. She is the author of more than 30 books.
Nathalia Holt
Rockets, Stars, and the Women Who Changed It All
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Women Writing about Women in Science
Sun., 1 p.m. Science Main Stage
Holt is a science writer and New York Times best-selling author of “Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars” and “Cured: The People who Defeated HIV.”
Ellen Hopkins
Real Life as Inspiration or Desperation
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Teen and Author Stage
What’s Trending in YA
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/333
Writing a Novel in Verse: A Workshop for Adults and Teens
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/333
Life on the Margins: Teens Struggling to Survive Real Life
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/Kiva
Hopkins is the New York Times best-selling author of 11 young-adult novels and several adult novels. Her most recent is “The You I’ve Never Known.”
Deborah Hopkinson
Thinking Like Historians in Writing Nonfiction
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/351
Connecting STEM to History: Encouraging Readers to Think Critically
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/308
The Impact of War and Conflict
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/351
Hopkinson is the award-winning author of more than 45 books for young readers. Her recent books include “Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors and Submarines in the Pacific” and three picture books.
Sophie Houser
Girls Rule
Sat., 12:30 p.m. Teen and Author Stage
Girl Code: A Coding Workshop for Teens
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/349
Houser and Andrea “Andy” Gonzales met and discovered the power of coding at Girls Who Code in 2014. They created a simple eight-bit video game, “Tampon Run,” that went viral and co-wrote “Girl Code.”
Shaun David Hutchinson
High School is the Worst
Sat., 10:30 a.m. Teen and Author Stage
Depicting LGBTQ Experiences in Books for Teens
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/351
Tough Questions, Tougher Answers
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/351
Hutchinson is the author of books for young adults, including “We Are the Ants” and “At the Edge of the Universe.” He enjoys “Doctor Who,” comic books and yelling at the TV.
Paul Andrew Hutton
Indian Wars: From Spanish Conquest to Wounded Knee
Sat., 4 p.m. Koffler/218
Writing Popular History
Sun., 2:30 p.m. UA BookStore
Hutton is an American cultural historian, award-winning author, documentary writer, television personality and historical consultant for the film, “The Missing.” His latest book is “The Apache Wars.”
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Arsalan Iftikhar
Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms
Sat., 2:30 p.m. SBS Tent
Iftikhar is an international human-rights lawyer, a global media commentator and author of the new book “Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedoms.”
Julie Iromuanya
Page-Turning Tucsonans
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Immigration Stories
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Iromuanya’s first novel, “Mr. and Mrs. Doctor,” was shortlisted for the 2016 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. She is an assistant professor of English and African literature at the University of Arizona.
Nancy Isenberg
U.S. Presidents: Jefferson, Madison, Nixon and Eisenhower
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/204
Class, Race, and Politics in America
Sat., 4 p.m. Koffler/204
White Trash: A Conversation with Nancy Isenberg
Sun., 1 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Award-winning scholar and author Isenberg is a professor of history at Louisiana State University. Her latest book is “White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America.”
Tara Ison
The Art of the Short Story
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Ison is the author of four novels and a recent collection of essays, “Reeling Through Life: How I learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies.” Her novels include “Ball” “The List” and “Rockaway.”
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J. A. Jance
Hot Off the Press
Sat., 8:30 a.m. Student Union/S. Ballroom
Masters of Mystery
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Mysterious West
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Modern Languages/350
Southwest Mysteries in Fact and Fiction
Sun., 2:30 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Jance, a New York Times best-selling author of 50 books, including the Joanna Brady, J.P. Beaumont and Ali Reynolds series, has sold more than 10 million books. Her newest is “Man Overboard.”
Jennifer Jenkins
The Mythic West
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/130
Jenkins teaches in the English department and the School of Information at the University of Arizona. She is author of “Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest.”
Kelly Jensen
Finding Your Inner Hero as a Girl
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/353
What’s Trending in YA
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/333
Jensen is a librarian-turned-editor for Book Riot and Stacked. She edited “Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World” and wrote a book examining YA realistic fiction.
Pamela Jewett
Notable Books for K-8 Readers
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/308
Jewett is a professor at the University of South Carolina who says children’s literature can create an aesthetic experience for readers of all ages and provide a way to illuminate our lives.
Paulette Jiles
National Book Award Salute
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Writing the West
Sat., 1 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Southwest Books of the Year Top Pick Authors
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/130
Jiles is the author of the best-selling novels “Enemy Women” and “The Color of Lightning.” Her latest book, “News of the World,” was short-listed for the National Book Award.
Charles Johnson
Incredible Journeys
Sat., 4 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Workshop: The Art and Craft of Storytelling
Sun., 10 a.m. ILC/119
Writers on Writing
Sun., 1 p.m. ILC/150
Johnson’s newest book is “The Way of the Writer.” His awards include the National Book Award and MacArthur, NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. “Middle Passage” won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1990.
Craig Johnson
Politics Most Deadly
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/120
Western Writers of America Spur Award Winners
Sun., 10 a.m. Modern Languages/350
Longmire Star chats with A. Martinez
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Johnson is the award-winning author of 12 novels in the Walt Longmire mystery series; the newest is “An Obvious Fact.” Others include “The Cold Dish,” “Death Without Company” and “Another Man’s Moccasins.”
Holly Johnson
Reading Around the World: Award-Winning Books
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/308
Johnson is on the literacy faculty at the University of Cincinnati and has co-authored books on the literacy and the literature of adolescents.
Pam Johnson-Bennett
Feline Science and Cat Facts
Sat., 1 p.m. Koffler/218
Cats vs. Dogs
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/150
Johnson-Bennett is a certified cat-behavior consultant and the best-selling author of 10 books, including her newest, “Catwise: America’s Favorite Cat Expert Answers Your Cat Behavior Questions.”
Darynda Jones
Magic, Mayhem, and Murder
Sat., 10 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Putting the Sex in Sexy
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Kachina
Jones currently has two series, The Charley Davidson series and the Darklight Trilogy. Her newest is “Eleventh Grave in Moonlight,” a Charley Davidson book.
Genie Joseph
From Script to Screen
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
Joseph is the founder of The Animal Consciousness Institute and is the vice president of Independent Film Arizona. She is the author of 20 screenplays, 10 of which have been sold and produced.
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Teri Kanefield
Thinking Like Historians in Writing Nonfiction
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/351
People Who Changed the World
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/351
Kanefield, a lawyer and writer, is the author of “The Girl From the Tar Paper School,” “The Extraordinary Suzy Wright” and “Alexander Hamilton: The Hero Who Helped Shape America.”
Reed Karaim
Tucson Authors Tell All!
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Setting As Character
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/218
Tucson author and journalist Reed Karaim has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and selected for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers Series. His new novel is “The Winter in Anna.”
Erin Entrada Kelly
Finding Your Inner Hero as a Girl
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/353
Writing Workshop on Fiction
Sat., 11:45 a.m. Teen Lounge
Bullying: From Invisibility to Intimidation
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/353
Kelly won multiple awards for “Blackbird Fly” and “The Land of Forgotten Girls.” “Hello, Universe” is out this year. She has been nominated for a Philippines Free Press Literary Award.
Martha Hall Kelly
WWII from Los Alamos to Germany
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Premiere Fiction
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Kelly is a novelist known for “Lilac Girls,” based on the true story of Polish women who were imprisoned at the Ravensbruck concentration camp and the American philanthropist who brought them to the United States.
Ibram X. Kendi
National Book Award Salute
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Slavery in America
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Race in America
Sun., 10 a.m. Koffler/204
Kendi wrote the National Book Award winner “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.” He is an assistant professor of African-American history at the University of Florida.
Ausma Zehanat Khan
Passport to Death
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Breakout Women of Mystery — Women’s Mystery Collection
Sun., 10 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Killer Current Affairs
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Khan’s first novel, “The Unquiet Dead,” won the 2016 Barry Award for Best First Novel. Her latest book is “Among the Ruins.” Previously, she was editor-in-chief of Muslim Girl magazine.
Megan Kimble
How We Speak to One Another: Explorations of the Essay
Sun., 1 p.m. SBS Tent
Kimble is the managing editor of Edible Baja Arizona, a food magazine serving Tucson and the borderlands. She is the author of “Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food.”
Christina Baker Kline
Hot Off the Press
Sat., 8:30 a.m. Student Union/S. Ballroom
A Conversation with Christina Baker Kline
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Modern Languages/350
Art in Fiction
Sat., 2:30 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Premiere Fiction
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Kline’s “Orphan Train” has been a New York Times best-seller for over two years; her new novel is “A Piece of the World.”
Michelle Knudsen
High School is the Worst
Sat., 10:30 a.m. Teen and Author Stage
Monsters and Friends: Both Real and Imagined
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/351
The Writer/Illustrator Connection: It Takes Two
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/Kiva
A Weyr of Dragons: Journeys of Magic and Intrigue
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/Kiva
Marilyn’s Monster with Michelle Knudsen
Sun., 2:45 p.m. Story Blanket Tent
Knudsen is the author of “Revenge of the Evil Librarian,” as well as the Trelian middle-grade fantasy series and picture books such as “Marilyn’s Monster” and the best-selling “Library Lion.”
Gini Koch
Building Alternate Worlds
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/150
How I Got Published
Sun., 1 p.m. Koffler/218
Koch, an adult sc-fi and fantasy-horror author, writes the long-running Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series, including “Touched by an Alien” and “Universal Alien,” as well as other series and short stories.
Affinity Konar
World War II from Los Alamos to Germany
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Jewish Lives and Histories
Sun., 1 p.m. ILC/120
Konar has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She has worked as a tutor, copywriter and editor of children’s educational materials. Her novel about twins in Auschwitz is “Mischling.”
Bill Konigsberg
Real Life as Inspiration or Desperation
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Teen and Author Stage
Depicting LGBTQ Experiences in Books for Teens
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/351
Dealing with Criticism as an Author
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/333
Konigsberg’s award-winning young-adult books include “Honestly Ben,” “The Porcupine of Truth” and “Openly Straight.” He teaches at The Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.
Gordon Korman
Criminal Masterminds: High Octane Adventure
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/Kiva
Detectives and Superheroes: Catching Criminals and Solving Problems
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/353
Conspiracy and Conflict
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Teen and Author Stage
Korman has written more than 70 middle-grade and teen novels, including the New York Times best-selling “The 39 Clues,” the Swindle series, “Ungifted” and three books in his new Masterminds series.
Amanda Krause
What Editors Do
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
Krause is the editorial, design and production manager at the University of Arizona Press. A lover of correct grammar and new red pens, she’s also worked in a variety of editorial roles.
Jared Kuritz
Workshop: From Query Letter to Contract
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/141
Book PR: Get Your Game On!
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
How to Boost Book Sales with Social Media
Sun., 4 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
Kuritz is a managing partner of Strategies, a firm that focuses on literary development, business modeling, marketing and public relations for traditional and small-press authors of all genres.
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Sandy Lanham
Exploring the Truth Behind Creativity
Sat. 10 a.m. Koffler/204
Lanham was awarded a MacArthur “Genius Grant” in 2001 for her dedication to getting hard data on all kinds of wild animals, which is critical for protecting the incredible animal life in the Gulf.
Mary E. Lambert
Writing and Selling Your First Novel
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/333
Taking Action/Making a Difference
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/351
Lambert, a middle-school teacher in Tempe, graduated from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in children’s writing. “Family Game Night and Other Catastrophes” is her first novel.
Caroline Leavitt
Literary Thriller
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Dramatic Social and Political Change
Sun., 10 a.m. Koffler/218
Leavitt is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of 10 novels, including her latest, “Cruel Beautiful World.” Other titles are “Is This Tomorrow” and “Pictures of You.”
Marie LeJeune
Series Books to Grow and Support Today’s Readers
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/310
LeJeune, an associate professor of literacy at Western Oregon University, focuses on children’s and young-adult literature. She served on the Orbis Pictus Committee and the Oregon Readers Choice Award.
Dana Levin
Poetry Reading with Dana Levin
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Kiva
Levin’s latest book is “Banana Palace.” She is also the author of “In the Surgical Theatre,” “Wedding Day” and “Sky Burial,” which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.”
Erika Lewis
Workshop: Writing Graphic Novels
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/141
Building Alternate Worlds
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/150
How I Got Published
Sun., 1 p.m. Koffler/218
Lewis has worked in television for 15 years. “Game of Shadows” is her debut novel. She also wrote the graphic novel “The 49th Key” and the Firebrand comic series.
Grace Lin
National Book Award Salute
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Global Connection: People, Place, and Possibility
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/353
A Weyr of Dragons: Journeys of Magic and Intrigue
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/Kiva
Illustrator Studio: Gouache Techniques
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/437
Author and illustrator Grace Lin’s Newbery Honor book “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” is a New York Times best-seller. “When the Sea Turned Silver” was a 2016 National Book Award Finalist.
Victor Lodato
Hot Off the Press
Sat., 8:30 a.m. Student Union/S. Ballroom
Page-Turning Tucsonans
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Mothers and Sons
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Lodato has received numerous awards, including one from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. His first novel, “Mathilda Savitch,” has been published in 16 countries and received a PEN USA Award.
Trudy Ludwig
Creating Communities of Kindness and Caring
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/310
Using Children’s Books to Address Bullying
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/308
Bullying: From Invisibility to Intimidation
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/353
Ludwig’s “My Secret Bully,” “The Invisible Boy” and “Gifts from the Enemy” help children thrive in their social world. She has been featured in newspapers and TV as an expert on addressing bullying.
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David Maraniss
Politics — Where Do We Go From Here?
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Into the Story: A Writer’s Journey through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss
Sun., 1 p.m. Arizona Daily Star Tent
Maraniss is the winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and has been a finalist two other times. He has written many best-selling books, including, “Barack Obama” and “Once in a Great City.”
Jeffrey Mariotte
Policing the Paranormal
Sat., 4 p.m. Koffler/216
Mariotte is the award-winning author of more than 50 books, including the supernatural thriller “Season of the Wolf,” “Star Trek: The Folded World” and more than 100 comic books and graphic novels.
Juana Martinez-Neal
Creating Abecedario Cards: A Drawing Workshop for Ages 4-9
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/349
Where are we? Latinos in Children’s Books
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/351
Martinez-Neal is a mixed-media, traditional artist born in Lima, Peru. She illustrated “La Madre Goose” and “La Princesa and the Pea” (forthcoming).
Becky Masterman
Just the Facts?
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Masterman, a former forensic science reference editor, wrote,”Rage Against the Dying,” about Brigid Quinn, a former FBI agent, and “Fear the Darkness”. Her newest, just in time for the festival, is “Twist of the Knife.”
Janelle Mathis
Conflict and Peace in Children’s Books
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/308
Mathis teaches courses in children’s literature at the University of North Texas. Her work focuses on international literature, particularly books that highlight a character’s identity and agency.
Joyce Maynard
Literary Thriller
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Mothers and Sons
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Workshop: The Ethics and Personal Issues of Writing
Sun., 1 p.m. ILC/119
Maynard is the author of 16 books, including her latest novel, “Under the Influence,” and the best-selling memoir, “At Home in the World.”
Megan McCaffrey
Disability Experiences in Children’s Books
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/308
McCaffrey is an educator and librarian, with a combined 20 years at the post-secondary, secondary and primary school levels. She is on the executive board for Worlds of Words.
Brian McClellan
Mechanics of Magic
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/130
Building Alternate Worlds
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/150
How I Got Published
Sun., 1 p.m. Koffler/218
McClellan is known for his acclaimed Powder Mage Universe and his essays on the life and business of being a writer. His latest book is “Sins of Empire.”
Terry McDonell
From the New Journalism to Clickbait
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/150
Writing Lyrically About Sports
Sat., 4 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Jim Harrison Tribute: The Lawrence Clark Powell Memorial Lecture
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/120
McDonell, author of the memoir “The Accidental Life,” is the former managing editor of Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and Newsweek, and former editor-in-chief at Esquire and Men’s Journal.
Michael McGarrity
Politics Most Deadly
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/120
Writing the West
Sat., 1 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Mysterious West
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Modern Languages/350
McGarrity is the author of “Backlands” and “Tularosa,” selected as one of the best books of 1996 by Publishers Weekly. “Serpent Gate,” in the Kevin Kerney series, was a Booklist Top 10 crime novel.
Lindsay McKenna
Everybody Loves a Cowboy
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/216
Workshop: How To Build An Indie Readership
Sun., 10 a.m. ILC/137
Romance A to Z
Sun., 1 p.m. Koffler/216
McKenna is a pseudonym of multiple-award-winning romance writer Eileen Nauman. She has had nearly 200 books published as McKenna since 1981. Recent tiles include “Wind River Wrangler.”
Elizabeth McKenzie
National Book Award Salute
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Writers for a New Generation
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Dysfunction Junction: Satire Begins at Home
Sun., 1 p.m. Modern Languages/350
McKenzie is the author of “The Portable Veblen,” long-listed for the 2016 National Book Award for fiction, as well as “Stop That Girl” and “MacGregor Tells the World.”
Lisa McMann
A Weyr of Dragons: Journeys of Magic and Intrigue
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/Kiva
Dystopian Societies: Resist or Perish
Sun., 2 p.m. Teen and Author Stage
Writing Workshop on Fantasy Worlds
Sun., 3 p.m. Teen Lounge
McMann is the New York Times best-selling author of 18 books for children and teens. Her new novel is the first in an Unwanteds spinoff series called “The Unwanteds Quests: Dragon Captives.”
Thomas McNamee
Feline Science and Cat Facts
Sat., 1 p.m. Koffler/218
Cats vs. Dogs
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/150
In “The Inner Life of Cats,” McNamee shows that with deeper knowledge of cats’ developmental phases and individual idiosyncrasies, we can guide cats’ maturation and improve the quality of their lives.
Donald G. McNeil Jr.
Zika: The Emerging Epidemic
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Science Main Stage
Epidemics Old and New
Sun., 4 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
McNeil is a science and health reporter for The New York Times, where he specializes in plagues and pestilences, including AIDS, Ebola and malaria. His new book is “Zika: The Emerging Epidemic.”
Beth Meacham
What Editors Do
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
Workshop: Ask a Sci-Fi Editor
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/119
Meacham is a well-known sci-fi editor with Tor Books, where she was editor-in-chief for five years. She currently serves as executive editor with Tor, working from a ranch outside Tucson.
Shannon Messenger
20 Ways NOT to Write Your First Book
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/333
Power and Intrigue in Fantasy Worlds
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/Kiva
Writing Workshop on Fantasy
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Teen Lounge
Moving Through Alternative Worlds
Sun., 1 p.m. Teen and Author Stage
Messenger wrote the middle-grade series Keeper of the Lost Cities and the Sky Fall series for young adults. Titles include “Let the Wind Rise.”
Ander Monson
Workshop: The Essay in Conversation
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/151
Monson, a poet, fiction writer and essayist, is the co-editor of “How We Speak to One Another” and the author of six books. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona.
Maceo Montoya
California Dreamers: A Reality Check
Sat., 10 a.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Collective Amnesia
Sat., 1 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Immigration Stories
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Montoya’s new book is the “Chicano Movement for Beginners,” which he wrote and illustrated. Earlier works include “The Scoundrel and the Optimist” and “The Deportation of Wopper Barraza.”
Yuyi Morales
Illustrator Studio: Mulitmedia
Sat., 10 a.m. Education/437
Where are we? Latinos in Children’s Books
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/351
A Matter of Choice: Illustrators’ Views on the Need for Diverse Books
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/353
An Immigrant’s Story of Creating Children’s Books
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Morales has won five Pura Belpré Awards. She illustrated “Thunder Boy Jr.,” written by Sherman Alexie, which received critical acclaim. Her latest is “Rudas: Niño’s Horrendous Hermanitas.”
Patricia Murphy
Poetry Reading with Patricia Murphy and Joni Wallace
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Kiva
Murphy is the author of “Hemming Flames,” which won the 2016 May Swenson award. She founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches writing and magazine production.
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Gary Nabhan
Exploring the Truth Behind Creativity
Sat., 10 a.m. Koffler/204
Nabhan is a research scientist at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Center. He is the author or editor of 26 books. Utne Reader has called him one of 12 people making the world a better place to live.
Lisa Napoli
Ray and Joan: The McDonald’s Fortune
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
Big Money or Big Philanthropy?
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Workshop: Telling Your Story — Biography v Memoir
Sun., 10 a.m. ILC/151
Napoli has been a reporter, columnist and host of the NPR program “Marketplace.” She is the author of “Ray and Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away.”
Yvonne Navarro
Apocalypse 101: How to Destroy the World
Sat., 11:30 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Navarro has written 22 novels and more than 100 short stories about everything from vampires to psychologically disturbed husbands to the end of the world. Titles include “Aliens: Music of the Spears.”
Craig Nelson
WWII: 1941 and the USS Arizona
Sat., 1 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
WWII: Pearl Harbor
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Nelson is the New York Times best-selling author of “Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness,” as well as “The Age of Radiance,” “Rocket Men” and “Thomas Paine.”
John Nichols
The Fight Against a Jobless Economy
Sat., 1 p.m. Koffler/216
Politics — Where Do We Go From Here?
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Gallagher
On Brainwashing, Automation, and Politics
Sun., 2:30 p.m. SBS Tent
Nichols, a political blogger and Washington correspondent for The Nation, has written or co-authored nine books, including “People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.”
Amy Ellis Nutt
LGBTQ Keynote
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Raising Kids Who Break the Mold
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/218
Nutt’s newest book is “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family.” She won the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for her 2011 series “The Wreck of the Lady Mary.”
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Jim Obergefell
LGBTQ Keynote
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Civil Rights and the Supreme Court
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Obergefell, co-author of “Love Wins,” was the lead plaintiff in Obergefell v Hodges, the landmark case in which the Supreme Court held that same-sex marriage is a right guaranteed by the Constitution.
Weston Ochse
Policing the Paranormal
Sat., 4 p.m. Koffler/216
Ochse (pronounced “oaks”), is the author of nine novels, including the SEAL Team 666 series, which both USA Today and the New York Post listed as required reading, and which has been optioned for film.
Mo O’Hara
Adventures of Magic: Zombies, Unicorns, and Robots
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/Kiva
Sparking Stories with Zombie Goldfish: A Writing Workshop for Ages 7-12
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/349
O’Hara is the author of the New York Times best-selling My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series.
Anna Ochoa O’Leary
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert
Sun., 4 p.m. SBS Tent
O’Leary is a contributor to “Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert” and an assistant professor of Mexican-American Studies at the University of Arizona who has done extensive research on migration and gender.
James A. Owen
Dragons!
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/130
Mechanics of Magic
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/130
Owen has written and illustrated seven books in The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series, which is published in more than 20 languages. Titles include “Dawn of the Dragons” and “The First Dragon.”
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Lisa Papademetriou
Global Connection: People, Place, and Possibility
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/353
Creating Your Own World: A Fantasy Writing Workshop for Ages 9-14
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/349
Writing and Selling Books for Middle Grade Readers
Sun., 4 p.m. Education/333
New York Times best-selling author Papademetriou is the author of “A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic,” middle-grade novels written with James Patterson and the Confectionately Yours series.
T. Jefferson Parker
Masters of Mystery
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Blood Ties
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/120
Blockbuster Novelists
Sun., 11:30 a.m. UA BookStore
Parker is the best-selling author of 22 crime novels, including Edgar Award-winners “Silent Joe” and “California Girl.” “Crazy Blood” is a story of two brothers on a ruthless quest for supremacy.
Michelle Parker-Rock
First Edition: Submitting a Manuscript to Book Competitions
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/349
Parker-Rock pens the Authors Kids Love series, multicultural biographies of contemporary children’s book writers. She is regional adviser for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in Arizona.
Kelly Parsons
Locked Room Thrillers
Sat., 10 a.m. Koffler/216
Thrillers to Die For!
Sat., 1 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Award-winning medical thriller author and physician Parsons is a board-certified urologist who is on the faculty at UCSD. His new novel is “Under the Knife.”
Andrea Peacock
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places: Man vs. Nature and the Future of Civilization
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Science Main Stage
Peacock is author of “Wasting Libby” and co-author, with her husband, Doug, of “In the Presence of Grizzlies” and “The Essential Grizzly.”
Doug Peacock
Jim Harrison Tribute: The Lawrence Clark Powell Memorial Lecture
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/120
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places: Man vs. Nature and the Future of Civilization
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Science Main Stage
Peacock’s forthcoming re-release, is “Walking It Off: A Veteran’s Chronicle of War & Wilderness,” a book of recollections of his relationship with Edward Abbey in the form of a heartfelt memoir.
Benjamin Percy
Apocalypse 101: How to Destroy the World
Sat., 11:30 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Fatal Family Secrets
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Writers on Writing
Sun., 1 p.m. ILC/150
Percy’s most recent book is “Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction.” He writes the Green Arrow and Teen Titans series at DC Comics and James Bond at Dynamite Entertainment.
Emmy Pérez
The Tejana: Another State of Mind
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Tucson Youth Poetry Slam
Sat., 1 p.m. SBS Tent
Poetry Reading with Emmy Pérez and Johanna Skibsrud
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Kiva
Pérez has lived on the Texas-Mexico border, from El Paso to the Rio Grande Valley. She is the author of the poetry collection “With the River on Our Face.”
Michael Perry
Roughneck Grace
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Arizona Daily Star Tent
Perry has written for numerous publications, including Esquire and the New York Times Magazine. “Roughneck Grace” is a collection of essays from his Sunday Wisconsin State Journal column.
Thomas Perry
Thrillers to Die For!
Sat., 1 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Just the Facts?
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Malice Domestic
Sun., 10 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Perry is the author of 24 novels, including the Edgar Award-winning thriller “The Butcher’s Boy,” its sequel, “Sleeping Dogs” and the Jane Whitefield series. His latest mystery is “The Old Man.”
LeUyen Pham
Who Says Princesses Don’t Wear Black?
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/353
The Writer/Illustrator Connection: It Takes Two
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/Kiva
Look and Laugh Out Loud: Humor and Wordplay
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/353
Graphic Novels Rule the World
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/Kiva
Pham worked in animation before turning to illustrating picture books, including “The Bear Who Wasn’t There” and the Princess in Black series.
Matt Phelan
Illustrator Studio: Drawing Techniques
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/437
Creating Graphic Novels
Sat., 1:30 p.m. Teen and Author Stage
The Writer/Illustrator Connection: It Takes Two
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/Kiva
Graphic Novels Rule the World
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/Kiva
Marilyn’s Monster with Michelle Knudsen
Sun., 2:45 p.m. Story Blanket Tent
Phelan is the author/illustrator of the award-winning “The Storm in the Barn” and “Bluffton.” His newest graphic novel is “Snow White.” He also illustrates picture books, including “Marilyn’s Monster.”
Carolyn Phillips
A Handbook to Chinese Cuisine
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Culinary Stage
Workshop: Culinary Writing with Carolyn Phillips
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/151
Phillips’ upcoming illustrated book, “All Under Heaven,” is about the cuisines of China. She is fluent in Chinese and writes blog posts under the name Madame Huang.
Logan Phillips
Sonoran Strange and Poetics de Esta Tierra
Sun., 4 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
“Dirtyverbs” Phillips is a Tucson bilingual poet, performance artist and DJ. He is the author of “Sonoran Strange,” a full-length book of poems.
Patrick Phillips
Class, Race, and Politics in America
Sat., 4 p.m. Koffler/204
Race in America
Sun., 10 a.m. Koffler/204
Phillips is an award-winning poet, translator and professor. His latest work is “Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America.” “Elegy for a Broken Machine” was a finalist for a 2015 National Book Award.
Aprilynne Pike
What’s Trending in YA
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/333
Power and Intrigue in Fantasy Worlds
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/Kiva
Pike is a New York Times best-selling author of books such as “Earthbound” and the Wings series, all for teen readers. Her latest is “Glitter,” a futuristic fantasy and romantic thriller.
Nancy Plain
Western Writers of America Spur Award Winners
Sun., 10 a.m. Modern Languages/350
Plain is an award-winning writer of nonfiction for young readers. Her most recent novel, “This Strange Wilderness,” is about groundbreaking ornithologist and bird artist John James Audubon.
Sam Polk
All that Glitters: Redefining Success
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/218
Big Money or Big Philanthropy?
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Polk’s memoir, “For The Love of Money,” came when he realized he’d lost himself in an obsessive pursuit of money after getting angry with a Wall Street bonus of $3.75 million — because it wasn’t enough.
Naomi Pomeroy
Building Blocks of a Restaurant Chef
Sat., 4 p.m. Culinary Stage
Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Culinary Stage
Pomeroy is a professional chef and restaurateur, who has appeared on “Iron Chef” and “Knife Fight” as a guest judge. Her book is “Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking.”
Diana Porter
Notable Books for K-8 Readers
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/308
Porter is a former classroom teacher who passed her love of literature to her fifth-graders. She currently teaches children’s and adolescent literacy courses at Eastern Kentucky University.
Bob Proehl
Stories Within Stories
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Dazzling Debut Novels
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
Proehl is the author of the novel “A Hundred Thousand Worlds,” which “Ten Thousand Saints” author Eleanor Henderson calls “A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con age ... a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut.”
Stephen J. Pyne
Wildfire in Focus
Sat., 2:30 p.m. National Parks Experience
Pyne is a Regent’s Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. His books include “Between Two Fires,” “Voyager,” “The Last Lost World” and “Fire: Nature and Culture.”
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Erin Quinn
Workshop: Writing Paranormal Characters
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/137
Award-winning author Quinn writes romance for the thinking reader. Her books include “The Five Deaths of Roxanne Love” and “The Three Fates of Ryan Love.”
Susan Quinn
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/204
Quinn is the author of “Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady” and “Marie Curie: A Life” among other books. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and other publications.
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Lydia Reeder
Unique Women in Sports History
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Little-Known Sports Heroines
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/150
Reeder’s first book is about a very different time in women’s sports. “Dust Bowl Girls” tells how her great-uncle trained a group of young women from rural Oklahoma to become college basketball stars.
Richard Reeves
WWII: Japanese-American Internment
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Gallagher
WWII: Asking Why, Internment and the Holocaust
Sun., 2:30 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Reeves, a syndicated columnist and best-selling author of “Infamy,” has published more than 20 books. His six films have won television’s major documentary awards, including an Emmy and a Peabody.
Elly Reidy
Stories That Don’t Sit Still
Sat., 11 a.m. Entertainment/Storytelling Stage
A professional storyteller since 1998, Reidy shares stories across cultures and generations, looking for humor and a shift in perspective in the stories she tells.
Robin Reineke
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert
Sun., 4 p.m. SBS Tent
Reineke is a contributing author to “Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert” and the co-founder and executive director of the Colibri Center for Human Rights.
Andrés Reséndez
National Book Award Salute
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Slavery in America
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Indian Wars: From Spanish Conquest to Wounded Knee
Sat., 4 p.m. Koffler/218
Reséndez is the author of “The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America,” nominated for a National Book Award. He is a history professor and department vice chair at UC-Davis.
Adam Rex
The Writer/Illustrator Connection: It Takes Two
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/Kiva
Look and Laugh Out Loud: Humor and Wordplay
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/353
Illustrator Studio: Art Doesn’t Care How You Make It
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/437
Rex is the author of “The True Meaning of Smekday,” adapted as “Home,” a DreamWorks film. His recent books are “XO, OX: A Love Story,” ‘How This Book Was Made” and “School’s First Day of School.”
Alberto Alvaro Ríos
Poetry Reading with Alberto Ríos
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Kiva
“Because We Come From Everything” Poetry and Migration
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Ríos is the author of 10 books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories and a memoir. His books of poems include “A Small Story about the Sky.” He is the poet laureate of Arizona.
Larry Robertson
Exploring the Truth Behind Creativity
Sat., 10 a.m. Koffler/204
Workshop: Larry Robertson
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/151
Robertson is the award-winning author of “A Deliberate Pause: Entrepreneurship and its Moment in Human Progress” and “The Language of Man: Learning to Speak Creativity.”
Mike Robertson
How the West is Fun
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Kachina
Robertson, a lifelong Montana and Arizona rancher, is the author of “Cowboy Stories: Grit, Horses, and Faith.”
Christian Robinson
Illustrator Studio: Art of the Picture Book Jacket
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/437
The Writer/Illustrator Connection: It Takes Two
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/Kiva
A Matter of Choice: Illustrators’ Views on the Need for Diverse Books
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/353
On Your Mark, Get Set, Draw: Illustrator Draw-Off
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/353
Robinson is an illustrator and animator in San Francisco. He illustrated the Newbery Award-winner “Last Stop on Market Street,” by Matt de la Peña, and “School’s First Day of School,” by Adam Rex.
John Elder Robison
A Family Living with Autism
Sat., 1 p.m. UA BookStore
An Emotional Awakening
Sun., 10 a.m. UA BookStore
Autism Up To Now
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/204
Robison is the New York Times best-selling author of “Switched On,” about cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed his life and mind. He is the Neurodiversity Scholar in Residence at William & Mary.
Maripat Robison
A Family Living with Autism
Sat., 1 p.m. UA BookStore
Speaker, writer, poet, seeker and healer with feet firmly planted in two worlds, Robison offers a unique perspective on the fun, challenging bumper-car ride of marriage.
Marsheila Rockwell
Policing the Paranormal
Sat., 4 p.m. Koffler/216
Rockwell is the author of the fantasy novels “Legacy of Wolves,” “The Shard Axe” and “Skein of Shadows.” She has had dozens of short stories and poems published and is a multiple Rhysling Award nominee.
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez
Workshop: Part 1 of 2 — Smiling Brown Project
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/141
Workshop: Part 2 of 2 — Smiling Brown Project (continued)
Sun., 4 p.m. ILC/141
Rodriguez, an assistant professor in the department of Mexican-American studies at the University of Arizona, wrote “Our Sacred Maíz is Our Mother: 7,000 years of Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas.”
Jennifer Roth-Gordon
A Conversation on Segregated Spaces
Sat., 10 a.m. SBS Tent
University of Arizona linguist and cultural anthropologist Roth-Gordon is the author of “Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro.”
Michael Rubens
Slackers and Musicians in YA Books
Sat., 3 p.m. Teen and Author Stage
Tough Questions, Tougher Answers
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/351
Writing Workshop on Fiction: Ask Me Anything
Sun., 1 p.m. Teen Lounge
Journalism, TV, and Children’ Books: Multiple Pathways as a Writer
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/333
Rubens’ novel “Sons of the 613” was selected by Kirkus Reviews and YALSA as a the best books of the year. His newest novel is “The Bad Decisions Playlist.” He also writes for late-night television.
Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith
Collective Amnesia
Sat., 1 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert
Sun., 4 p.m. SBS Tent
Rubio-Goldsmith, a University of Arizona adjunct lecturer, specializes in research and teaching on Mexican-American women’s history, human rights and immigration issues.
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Antonio Sacre
Where are we? Latinos in Children’s Books
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/351
My Name is Cool and Other Stories
Sat., 2 p.m. Entertainment/Storytelling Stage
A Mango in Hand and Other Stories
Sun., 1 p.m. Entertainment/Storytelling Stage
A Mango in Hand with Antonio Sacre
Sun., 2 p.m. Story Blanket Tent
Sacre is an internationally touring storyteller, author and solo performance artist. His picture books include “My Name Is Cool” and “A Mango in Hand” as well as “La Noche Buena: A Christmas Story.”
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
WWII: Japanese-American Internment
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Race in America
Sun., 10 a.m. Koffler/204
WWII: Asking Why, Internment and the Holocaust
Sun., 2:30 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Rotner Sakamoto, the author of “Midnight in Broad Daylight” and a consultant on Japan-related projects for the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., teaches history at Punahou School in Honolulu.
Junko Sakoi
The Danger of Dragons: False Images in Asian Books
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/310
Sakoi is a multicultural integration coordinator in TUSD and has worked with teachers and administrators to develop and implement multicultural curriculum and instruction.
Eli Sanders
Winning the Pulitzer Prize
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/120
Motivation for Crime
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Kachina
Innocence Lost: Teenagers and Crime
Sun., 1 p.m. UA BookStore
Sanders, an associate editor of a Seattle newspaper, The Stranger, is the author of the true-crime book “While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Decent into Madness.”
John Sandford
Magic, Mayhem, and Murder
Sat., 10 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Masters of Mystery
Sat., 1 p.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Iconic Mystery Writer John Sandford in Conversation with Thomas Perry
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Ballroom
John Sandford is the pen name of journalist John Roswell Camp, who won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for reporting. He has written over 40 best-sellers. His latest titles include “Saturn Run” and “Escape Clause.”
Dan Santat
Adventures of Magic: Zombies, Unicorns, and Robots
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/Kiva
Monsters and Friends: Both Real and Imagined
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/351
Illustrator Studio: Photoshop Techniques of Illustration
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/437
A Matter of Choice: Illustrators’ Views on the Need for Diverse Books
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/353
Santat received the 2015 Caldecott Medal for “The Adventures of Beekle” He is the creator of the Disney animated series, “The Replacements” and illustrates picture books and middle-grade novels.
Fernanda Santos
Wildfire in Focus
Sat., 2:30 p.m. National Parks Experience
Southwest Books of the Year Top Pick Authors
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/130
Santos, Phoenix bureau chief for The New York Times, is the author of “The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting.”
Adelia Saunders
Fantastic Fiction
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/150
Dazzling Debut Novels
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
Myth and Memory
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Saunders’ first novel, “Indelible,” introduces readers to Magdalena, who sees the truth about people written on their skin — names, dates, details both banal and profound.
Janine Schall
Recommended Children’s Books with LGBTQ Characters
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/310
Schall, an associate professor of reading and literacy at the University of Texas-Pan American, works with teachers and parents to use children’s and young-adult literature in powerful ways.
Kevin Schindler
Orbital Perspectives
Sat., 10 a.m. Science Main Stage
Schindler is the author of three books, the last two profiling the history of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. He also contributes a regular astronomy column to the Arizona Daily Sun.
Molly Schiot
Women Breaking the Mold
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
Capturing History
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
Little-Known Sports Heroines
Sun., 11:30 a.m. ILC/150
Schiot is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker. Her first book, “Game Changers,” uses rarely seen photos and stories to tell about the “founding mothers” of sports and female athletes.
Justin O. Schmidt
The Glorious Insect World
Sat., 10 a.m. National Parks Experience
Science is Stranger than Fiction
Sat., 2:30 p.m. UA BookStore
Schmidt, the author of “The Sting of the Wild,” is a biologist at the Southwestern Biological Institute and is associated with the department of entomology at the University of Arizona.
Laurie Schnebly
Workshop: The Double D’s — Dialogue and Description
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/137
Schnebly Campbell loves speaking to writers about issues that draw on her background as a therapist, advertising writer and novelist who also teaches. Her books include “Enneagrams for Relationships.”
Eliot Schrefer
Global Connection: People, Place, and Possibility
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/353
Conspiracy and Conflict
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Teen and Author Stage
Taking Action/Making a Difference
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/351
Journalism, TV, and Children’ Books: Multiple Pathways as a Writer
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/333
Schrefer, a New York Times best-selling author of novels for adults, children and teens, is a two-time finalist for the National Book Award. He is the children’s book reviewer for USA Today.
Bill Schutt
Science is Stranger than Fiction
Sat., 2:30 p.m. UA BookStore
The Mysterious Ways of Nature
Sun., 11:30 a.m. National Parks Experience
Schutt is a biologist who enjoys teaching, writing and research. He is the author of “Hell’s Gate” and “Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History.”
V. E. Schwab
Hot Off the Press
Sat., 8:30 a.m. Student Union/S. Ballroom
Uncanny London
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/218
Why So Serious?
Sun., 4 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Schwab is the YA author of “The Near Witch.” Her most recent novel for adults is, “A Conjuring of Light,” the final entry in the Shades of Magic series.
Heather Scott
Sharing and Writing Poetry with Children
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/310
Scott taught high school science and now shares her love of books with teachers as a way to spark the interest of their students. She also works in classrooms using literature to encourage inquiry.
Lisa See
Premiere Fiction
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
A Conversation with Lisa See
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/120
See is the New York Times best-selling author of “China Dolls.” Her other novels include “Dreams of Joy,” “Shanghai Girls,” “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” and “Peony in Love.”
Scott Selisker
On Brainwashing, Automation, and Politics
Sun., 2:30 p.m. SBS Tent
Selisker, an assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona, is the author of “Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom.”
Melissa Sevigny
Orbital Perspectives
Sat., 10 a.m. Science Main Stage
The Colorado River: Water in a Thirsty Land
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/120
Southwest Books of the Year Top Pick Authors
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/130
Sevigny, science reporter for Flagstaff public radio station KNAU, is the author of “Mythical River” and “Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets.”
Terry Shames
Murders of the Purple Sage
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/216
By the Book
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Shames is the best-selling author of “A Killing at Cotton Hill” and “The Last Death of Jack Harbin,” set in small-town Texas and featuring ex-Chief of Police Samuel Craddock.
Samantha Shannon
Hot Off the Press
Sat., 8:30 a.m. Student Union/S. Ballroom
Building Alternate Worlds
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/150
Uncanny London
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/218
New York Times best-seller Shannon is the author of the “The Bone Season,” “The Mime Order” and “The Song Rising,” the first three novels in a seven-book series.
Nisi Shawl
Workshop: Writing the Other
Sun., 10 a.m. ILC/141
Ladies of Steampunk
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Shawl is the author of the novel “Everfair” and the collection “Filter House,” which won a James Tiptree Jr. Award.
Richard Shelton
Nobody Rich or Famous
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/120
Poetry and Prison
Sun., 10 a.m. SBS Tent
Inspired by Place: Writing the Places that Shaped You
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/130
Shelton — poet, essayist and in many ways the poet laureate of Southwestern literature — returns to the spotlight with his long-awaited memoir, “Nobody Rich or Famous.”
David Shields
Can One Person Know Another Person?
Sat., 11:30 a.m. UA BookStore
Workshop: Writing Non-Fiction
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/119
Writers on Writing
Sun., 1 p.m. ILC/150
Shields is the internationally best-selling author of 20 books, translated into 20 languages. “Other People: Takes & Mistakes” is his newest.
Joel Shurkin
Hot Off the Press
Sat., 8:30 a.m. Student Union/S. Ballroom
Influential Unknowns
Sun., 10 a.m. Science Main Stage
Epidemics Old and New
Sun., 4 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Shurkin, a science writer emeritus at Stanford University, is the author of nine books on science and the history of science. Some notable biographies include “True Genius,” “Terman’s Kids” and “Broken Genius.”
Hampton Sides
Outdoor Adventure Writing
Sun., 11:30 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Writing Popular History
Sun., 2:30 p.m. UA BookStore
Sides is author of the critically acclaimed “In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette,” and the international best-seller “Ghost Soldiers.”
Holly Sims
Notable Books for K-8 Readers
Sat., 1 p.m. Education/308
Sims is a classroom teacher on the Notable Children’s Books panel in the Language Arts Award Committee. She was a Teacher of The Year for her work with first- and second-graders in Oregon.
Jennifer Sinor
Writing What You Know: Women Writing Their Experience
Sat., 11:30 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Georgia O’Keeffe: Live, Love, Paint
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Kachina
Inspired by Place: Writing the Places that Shaped You
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/130
Sinor is the author of three books, most recently “Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe” and “Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir.” She is a professor of English at Utah State University.
Johanna Skibsrud
Poetry Reading with Emmy Pérez and Johanna Skibsrud
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Kiva
Skibsrud is the author of “Quartet for the End of Time” and a new book of poetry, “The Description of the World.” She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Arizona.
Dan Slater
Figuring Out the True Crime
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Kachina
Workshop: Investigative Journalism and Communication
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/141
Innocence Lost: Teenagers and Crime
Sun., 1 p.m. UA BookStore
Slater is a former legal affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the author of “Wolf Boys” and “A Million First Dates” (alternatively titled “Love in the Time of Algorithms”).
John Slattery
Foraging in the Southwest
Sat., 4 p.m. National Parks Experience
Slattery teaches people how to gather and eat wild plants of the Southwest. He is a clinical herbalist and the founder of Desert Tortoise Botanicals. He is the author of “Southwest Foraging.”
Will Slattery
How We Speak to One Another: Explorations of the Essay
Sun., 1 p.m. SBS Tent
Slattery is a graduate of the University of Arizona’s MFA program and the managing editor for Essay Daily, an online magazine from which the essays compiled in “How We Speak to One Another” were drawn.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
How We Speak to One Another: Explorations of the Essay
Sun., 1 p.m. SBS Tent
Sloan is a contributor to “How We Speak to One Another.” Her essay collection “Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit” was recently chosen as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest and will be published this year.
Tracy Smiles
Mathematical Perspectives of Children’s Books
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/310
Smiles is a former elementary and middle school teacher and college professor. She is interested in using children’s literature for inquiry into science, math and social studies.
April Smith
Politics Most Deadly
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/120
Blood Ties
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/120
Mysterious West
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Modern Languages/350
Smith is the author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey novels and is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer of dramatic series and movies for television. Her most recent book is “Home Sweet Home.”
Claiborne Smith
The Book Reviewer’s Beat
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/150
Workshop: Getting Your Book Reviewed
Sun., 1 p.m. ILC/141
Smith is editor-in-chief of Kirkus Reviews, and is considered one of the most authoritative voices in the publishing world. He is also the literary director of the San Antonio Book Festival.
Dominic Smith
Art in Fiction
Sat., 2:30 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Myth and Memory
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Smith is an award-winning novelist; his latest book is “The Last Painting of Sara de Vos.” He teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers in Texas.
Dava Sobel
Rockets, Stars, and the Women Who Changed It All
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Influential Unknowns
Sun., 10 a.m. Science Main Stage
Sobel is the author of five best-sellers, including “The Glass Universe,” “Longitude” and “Galileo’s Daughter.” In 40 years as a science journalist, she has written for magazines and taught scientific writing.
David Soman
The Monster Next Door with David Soman
Sat., 10:45 a.m. Story Blanket Tent
Drawing Stories on the Spot: A Workshop for Ages 4-8
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/349
Monsters and Friends: Both Real and Imagined
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/351
Soman and his wife, Jacky Davis, are the creators of the best-selling Ladybug Girl books. His most recent picture book is “The Monster Next Door.”
Katherine Standefer
How We Speak to One Another: Explorations of the Essay
Sun., 1 p.m. SBS Tent
Standefer is a contributor to “How We Speak to One Another” and won the 2015 Iowa Review Award for Nonfiction. She is an associated faculty member of the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine.
Tyina Steptoe
A Conversation on Segregated Spaces
Sat., 10 a.m. SBS Tent
Steptoe, an assistant professor of history at the University of Arizona, is the author of “Houston Bound,” which examines migration, music and the construction of race in Houston from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Maggie Stiefvater
Hot Off the Press
Sat., 8:30 a.m. Student Union/S. Ballroom
Adventures of Magic: Zombies, Unicorns, and Robots
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Education/Kiva
Interview with Maggie Stiefvater
Power and Intrigue in Fantasy Worlds
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/Kiva
Girls to the Rescue
Sun., 10:30 a.m. Teen and Author Stage
Stiefvater wrote the Shiver Trilogy, The Raven Cycle series, “The Scorpio Races” (a Michael L. Printz Honor Book) and “Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Unicorn Training,” part of a middle-grade fantasy series.
David Summers
Workshop: Writing Science Fiction with Real Life Scientists
Sat., 10 a.m. ILC/141
Summers is the author of 10 novels and numerous short stories and poems. When not working with the written word, he operates telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory. His novels include “The Solar Sea.”
Yoo Kyung Sung
The Danger of Dragons: False Images in Asian Books
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/310
Sung teaches a range of children’s literature classes at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She has collaborated with teachers in Albuquerque and Seoul, South Korea.
Sam Sykes
Mechanics of Magic
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/130
Writing Hurdles
Sun., 10 a.m. Koffler/216
Why So Serious?
Sun., 4 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Sykes is the author of the Aeons’ Gate trilogy: “Tome of the Undergates,” “Black Halo” and “The Skybound Sea.” His latest novel is “The Mortal Tally,” second in the Bring Down Heaven series.
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Jeremy Tankard
Hungry Bird with Jeremy Tankard
Sat., 2:15 p.m. Story Blanket Tent
Illustrator Studio: Drawing Techniques for Humor
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Education/437
Creating Books for Very Young Children
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/333
On Your Mark, Get Set, Draw: Illustrator Draw-Off
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/353
Tankard is the author of “Grumpy Bird,” ‘Boo Hoo Bird” and “Hungry Bird,” and continues to illustrate for other authors.
Kimball Taylor
Giving Voice to the Unheard
Sat., 10 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Humanity Behind the Headlines: Immigration Issues
Sun., 10 a.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Taylor is the author of “The Coyote’s Bicycle,” “Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures” and “Drive Fast and Take Chances: Fair Warning from Surfers.”
Patricia A. Taylor
¡Buen Provecho! Treasured Secret Flavors
Sun., 1 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
With Zulema Echerivel-Felix and Maria Carbajal, Patricia “Güera” Taylor creates recipes using loved and treasured secret flavors influenced by the foods of Mexico, Southern Arizona and New Mexico.
RaeAnne Thayne
Everybody Loves a Cowboy
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/216
Romance A to Z
Sun., 1 p.m. Koffler/216
Thayne has written 49 books, with 4 million copies sold. Her books have been translated into 18 languages and sold in over 50 countries. “Snowfall on Haven Point” is a recent title.
Ingrid Thoft
Just the Facts?
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Breakout Women of Mystery — Women’s Mystery Collection
Sun., 10 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Fact, Fiction, and Fraud
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/216
Thoft is a graduate of the University of Washington in the certificate program in private investigation. Her interest in this topic created the Fina Ludlow series and “Duplicity,” its most recent title.
Evan Thomas
U.S. Presidents: Jefferson, Madison, Nixon and Eisenhower
Sat., 11:30 a.m. Koffler/204
Freedom of the Press
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Gallagher
Thomas has been the award-winning assistant managing editor at Newsweek since 1991. He is also the author of eight books. The latest is “Being Nixon: A Man Divided.”
Jeniffer Thompson
Book PR: Get Your Game On!
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
How to Boost Book Sales with Social Media
Sun., 4 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
Thompson is a publishing consultant and personal branding expert with more than 20 years experience in publishing.
Scott Thybony
Southwest Books of the Year Top Pick Authors
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/130
Outdoor Adventure Writing
Sun., 11:30 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Southwest Mysteries in Fact and Fiction
Sun., 2:30 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Thybony is an anthropologist by education and a writer by profession. He has worked on assignments for National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Outside, and is the author of “The Disappearances.”
Michael Tolkin
Apocalypse 101: How to Destroy the World
Sat., 11:30 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Screenwriting: Getting it Right
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Ventana
Writing Hurdles
Sun., 10 a.m. Koffler/216
Award-winning writer, director, and producer Tolkin’s new novel is “NK3.” For the film adaptation of his novel “The Player,” Tolkin won the Writers Guild Award and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Dawn Tripp
Art in Fiction
Sat., 2:30 p.m. UA Mall Tent
Georgia O’Keeffe: Live, Love, Paint
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Kachina
Setting As Character
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/218
Tripp, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, is the author of “Moon Tide,” “The Season of Open Water” and, most recently, “Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe,” a national best-seller.
Russell True
How the West is Fun
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Kachina
True is a second-generation owner/operator of the White Stallion Ranch in Tucson. His book is “Dude Ranching in Arizona.”
Jim Turner
The Colorado River: Water in a Thirsty Land
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/120
Turner is a historian and author of “The Mighty Colorado: From the Glaciers to the Gulf” and “Arizona: A Celebration of the Grand Canyon State.” He also co-authored a textbook on Arizona history.
Nancy E. Turner
Writing the West
Sat., 1 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Transformative Characters
Sun., 1 p.m. Student Union/Tucson
Turner is the author of “These is My Words,” “Sarah’s Quilt,” “The Star Garden” and “The Water and the Blood.” Her latest, “My Name is Resolute,” takes her heroine from Jamaica to the Revolutionary War.
Julia Turshen
Small Victories
Sat., 10 a.m. Culinary Stage
Home Cooking Triumphs
Sun., 1 p.m. Culinary Stage
Turshen is the author of “Small Victories,” a cookbook that The New York Times named as one of The Best Cookbooks of fall 2016.
Steve Twomey
Winning the Pulitzer Prize
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/120
WWII: Pearl Harbor
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Countdown to Pearl Harbor
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Arizona Daily Star Tent
Twomey is the ghostwriter of “What I Learned When I Almost Died” and the author of “Countdown to Pearl Harbor.” He won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for his work as a journalist.
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Myron Uhlberg
Creating Stories from Family Experiences
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Education/333
Inspired by Place: Writing the Places that Shaped You
Sun., 2:30 p.m. ILC/130
Uhlberg is the author of the children’s books “Dad, Jackie, and Me,” “A Storm Called Katrina” and “The Sound of All Things.” His first adult memoir, “Hands of My Father,” has been optioned for film.
Luis Alberto Urrea
Meet Award-Winning Author Luis Alberto Urrea
Sat., 1 p.m. Koffler/204
Timeless: Fiction without Boundaries
Sat., 4 p.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
The Art of the Short Story
Sun., 10 a.m. Student Union/Tucson
Dysfunction Junction: Satire Begins at Home
Sun., 1 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Urrea is the best-selling and highly acclaimed author of 16 books. His most recent titles include a book of poetry, “The Tijuana Book of the Dead,” and “The Water Museum,” a collection of short stories.
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Linda Valdez
Giving Voice to the Unheard
Sat., 10 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Humanity Behind the Headlines: Immigration Issues
Sun., 10 a.m. Nuestras Raíces Stage
Valdez’s personal memoir, “Crossing the Line: A Marriage Across Borders,” offers a counterbalance to the fear and aggression often directed toward undocumented immigrants.
Kelly Vaughn
Arizona’s Best Recipes
Sun., 10 a.m. Culinary Stage
Vaughn is the managing editor for Arizona Highways magazine and the author of “Arizona’s Best Recipes,” which features recipes from the magazine’s list of best restaurants.
Emma J. Virján
Look and Laugh Out Loud: Humor and Wordplay
Sun., 10 a.m. Education/353
A Bang and A Clang with Emma Virjan
Sun., Noon Story Blanket Tent
Creating Books for Very Young Children
Sun., 1 p.m. Education/333
On Your Mark, Get Set, Draw: Illustrator Draw-Off
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/353
Virján is an illustrator for the Pig with a Wig children’s series.
Amy Von Lintel
Women Breaking the Mold
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ventana
Southwest Books of the Year Top Pick Authors
Sat., 4 p.m. ILC/130
Georgia O’Keeffe: Live, Love, Paint
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Kachina
Von Lintel, regarded for her works on Georgia O’Keeffe and a volume on Robert Smithson’s Texas projects, is the author of “Georgia O’Keeffe Watercolors: 1916-1918” about the artist’s work in Canyon, Texas.
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Jim Waid
Workshop: Promoting Your Artwork
Sat., 1 p.m. ILC/119
Waid is an artist whose colorful, energy-filled abstract paintings and works on paper are influenced by the natural world. His visual book is “Jim Waid Paintings.”
Nicole Walker
How We Speak to One Another: Explorations of the Essay
Sun., 1 p.m. SBS Tent
Walker is a contributor to “How We Speak to One Another” and the author of “Egg,” which explores the egg as food, art object, metaphor, symbol, and cultural icon. She teaches at Northern Arizona University.
Joni Wallace
Poetry Reading with Patricia Murphy and Joni Wallace
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Kiva
Tucsonan Wallace is the author of three books of poetry. Her latest, “Kingdom Come Radio Show,” is a finalist for the Colorado Prize, the Besmilr Brigham Award and Word Works’ Washington Prize.
Rich Wallace
Writing Workshop on Writing Real Stories: Speaking the Truth
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Teen Lounge
Racial Injustice: The Courage to Act
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/353
Writing for Children’s Magazines
Sun., 4 p.m. Education/349
Wallace’s recent works of nonfiction include “Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights” and “Babe Conquers the World,” both co-authored with his wife, Sandra Neil Wallace.
Sandra Neil Wallace
Writing Workshop on Writing Real Stories: Speaking the Truth
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Teen Lounge
Racial Injustice: The Courage to Act
Sat., 4 p.m. Education/353
Journalism, TV, and Children’ Books: Multiple Pathways as a Writer
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Education/333
Wallace’s books include “Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights” and “Muckers.” As the daughter of a refugee, she is drawn to stories about overcoming barriers.
John Washington
Workshop: Translation with John Washington
Sat., 11:30 a.m. ILC/151
Washington is a journalist, novelist and translator. Working with Daniela Maria Ugaz, he translated “The History of Violence” and “The Beast,” both by Salvadoran journalist Oscar Martinez.
Dan White
America’s Love Affair with Camping
Sun., 10 a.m. ILC/130
Celebrating Our Great Outdoors
Sun., 2:30 p.m. National Parks Experience
White is the author of “Under The Stars: How America Fell In Love With Camping” and “The Cactus Eaters” about his hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. He has taught writing at Columbia University.
Colson Whitehead
National Book Award Salute
Sat., 10 a.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Incredible Journeys
Sat., 4 p.m. Modern Languages/350
Colson Whitehead — A Conversation with the National Book Award Winner
Sun., 10 a.m. ILC/120
Whitehead’s sixth novel is the National Book Award Winner, “The Underground Railroad.” Other awards include a Whiting Writers’ Award and Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships.
Gina Wohlsdorf
Locked Room Thrillers
Sat., 10 a.m. Koffler/216
Breakout Women of Mystery — Women’s Mystery Collection
Sun., 10 a.m. UA Library/Special Collections
Deadly Debuts
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Wohlsdorf’s first novel is “Security,” a thriller about the disastrous opening of a luxury hotel. It was picked by Amazon as one of the top 100 books of 2016.
Mark Woods Great Places and Honoring Others Sun., 10 a.m. National Parks Experience
Celebrating Our Great Outdoors
Sun., 2:30 p.m. National Parks Experience
Woods is the author of “Lassoing the Sun” and metro columnist for the Florida Times-Union. He is also a recipient of the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship.
Bob Wortman
Dr. Bob’s Favorite New Picture Books
Sun., 4 p.m. Education/308
Wortman has been a teacher, principal, and Title I / literacy director in TUSD. He is an associate lecturer at the University of Arizona and a literacy consultant to school districts.
Marc Wortman
WWII: 1941 and the USS Arizona
Sat., 1 p.m. UA Library/Special Collections
WWII: Pearl Harbor
Sat., 4 p.m. Student Union/Ballroom
Wortman’s newest book is “1941: Fighting the Shadow War.” His 2006 book, “The Millionaires’ Unit,” about World War I pilots, was made into an award-winning documentary.
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Molly Yeh
From Millennials to Grandmothers: Bringing Back Comfort Classics
Sat., 1 p.m. Culinary Stage
Like her award-winning blog, My Name is Yeh, “Molly on the Range” chronicles Yeh’s life through photos, more than 100 new recipes and hilarious stories from life in the city and on the farm.
Monica Youn
Poetry Reading with Monica Youn
Sun., 11:30 a.m. Student Union/Kiva
Youn is the author of the poetry collections “Blackacre,” nominated for the National Book Award, “Ignatz,” a finalist for the National Book Award, and “Barter.”
Hester Young
Magic, Mayhem, and Murder
Sat., 10 a.m. UA Mall Tent
Fatal Family Secrets
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Deadly Debuts
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Student Union/Santa Rita
Young’s debut mystery, “The Gates of Evangeline,” was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015. The sequel, “The Shimmering Road,” is set in Tucson.
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Ofelia Zepeda
Exploring the Truth Behind Creativity
Sat., 10 a.m. Koffler/204
Zepeda, a professor at the University of Arizona, is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Her books of poetry are “Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert,” “Jewed I-hoi/Earth Movements” and “Where Clouds are Formed.”
Tom Zoellner
The Book Reviewer’s Beat
Sat., 2:30 p.m. ILC/150
Zoellner, a fifth-generation Arizonan, is the politics editor of The Los Angeles Review of Books. His books include “A Safeway in Arizona” and “Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World.”
Caren Zucker
The Story of Autism
Sat., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/204
Autism Up To Now
Sun., 2:30 p.m. Koffler/204
Zucker has been collaborating with John Donvan on stories about autism since 2000. Their latest book is “In a Different Key: The Story of Autism.” Appearing courtesy of Broadway Books
