Sascha Rothchild
Sascha Rothchild is an Emmy award-winning writer, executive producer and showrunner who has written and produced the critically acclaimed global hits XO, Kitty, The Baby-Sitters Club, The Bold Type and GLOW to name a few. Sascha also adapted her LA Weekly cover article, “How To Get Divorced By 30,” about her failed first marriage, into…
Read MoreNick Medina
Nick Medina, born in Chicago, Illinois, and a member of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, appreciates local and Native folklore, which, along with research into the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) epidemic, inspired his debut novel, Sisters of the Lost Nation. When he’s not writing, he enjoys playing guitar, exploring curiosities and…
Read MoreStuart Noel
Stuart Noel, Ph.D., is Professor of English and Film at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He has lectured widely both here and abroad as a scholar of Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote. Dr. Noel founded and chairs the Truman Capote Literary Society. He is the recipient of the 2018 Scholar’s Award at the Tennessee Williams…
Read MoreAnna Christina Radziwill
Princess Tina Radziwill is the daughter of the late Prince Stanislas Radziwill of Poland and Lee Bouvier Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. President John F. Kennedy was her uncle and godfather. Tina’s mother and Truman Capote were close friends for many years, and Tina fondly recalls Capote through warm memories and family anecdotes.
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Read MoreTara Lynn Masih
Tara Lynn Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award for Young Readers for her debut novel My Real Name Is Hanna. Her anthologies include The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays. Her latest collection, How We…
Read MoreLeslie Castay
Leslie Castay, Broadway, film and TV veteran, recently portrayed legendary bad girl Tallulah Bankhead to critical acclaim in Matthew Lombardi’s play Looped at Jefferson Performing Arts Society, directed by Janet Shea. She won Big Easy awards for her portrayals of Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, Diana in Next to Normal, and for her direction…
Read MoreMonique Jenkinson
Monique Jenkinson is an artist, choreographer, performer and writer. Her work dwells at the intersection of contemporary dance, cabaret and essay, and considers the performance of femininity as a powerful, vulnerable and subversive act. Her alter-ego Fauxnique made herstory as the first cis-woman ever, anywhere, crowned as a pageant-winning drag queen, and her original works…
Read MoreCynthia Carr
Cynthia Carr is the author of the biographies Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar and Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. Her previous books are Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden…
Read MoreBrad Gooch
Brad Gooch is a poet, novelist, and biographer whose previous ten books include Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller; City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara; Godtalk: Travels in…
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