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Jocelyn Delk Adams
Jocelyn Delk Adams is the founder, author, and national television personality behind the blog Grandbaby Cakes, which serves millions of readers per year. Grandbaby Cakes...
Shastri Akella
Shastri Akella holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His writing has ...
William Alsup
William Alsup is a Senior United States District Judge in San Francisco. Before his appointment in 1999, he had been in private practice, had served as...
Devery S. Anderson
Devery S. Anderson earned a BA in history from the University of Utah and a master's in publishing from George Washington University. He is the...
Evan Howard Ashford
Evan Howard Ashford was raised in Kosciusko, Mississippi. He is the son of Mr. Charles H. Ashford and the late Mrs. Linda J. Ashford. He...
Steve Azar
A native of Greenville, Mississippi, Steve Azar is a hit songwriter, recording artist, and music producer whose sound traverses a blend of country, blues, folk,...
Lillian Batchelor
About the Book: “In a world full of people trying to be the best, it’s easy to feel like you don’t fit in...
Erica Bauermeister
Erica Bauermeister is the author of the bestselling novel
The School of Essential Ingredients, Joy for Beginners,
and
The Lost Art of
...
J. Stephen Beam
Originally from Itawamba County, Mississippi, J. Stephen Beam is a graduate of Itawamba Agricultural High School and holds degrees from both The University of Mississippi...
Mark Beaver
Mark Beaver is the author of
The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker
(U. Press os Mississippi 2023) and
Suburban Gospel
(Hub City, 2016)....
Johnnie Bernhard
Johnnie Bernhard is the author of four novels and the recipient of the National Press Women 2023 Best Novel and the Association of University Presses 2020 100 Best...
Rita Brent
Rita Brent is an award-winning comedian, musician, and military veteran. She grew up in Jackson, MS where she credits her mother for single-handedly cultivating her...
Carolyn J. Brown
Dr. Carolyn J. Brown is a teacher, writer, editor, and independent scholar who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Before moving back to North Carolina...
Trent Brown
Trent Brown grew up in McComb and Brookhaven. Brown holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor...
Virginia McGee Butler
Virginia McGee Butler, daughter of a country pastor, grew up in North Mississippi, usually lost in a book. She married Allen Butler, the church pianist...
Tracy Carr
Tracy Carr is the Mississippi Center for the Book Director and the Library Services Director at the Mississippi Library Commission.
Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung is the author of the national bestseller
All You Can Ever Know
, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award,...
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and resides in Qualla, NC with her husband, Evan and sons Ross...
Rick Cleveland
Rick Cleveland, a native of Hattiesburg and resident of Jackson, has been Mississippi Today’s sports columnist since 2016. A graduate of the University of Southern...
Jennifer Coburn
Jennifer Coburn is the author of
Cradles of the Reich
, a historical novel about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn...
Mary D. Coleman
Mary D. Coleman is SVP&COO at EMPath, the nation's oldest women's economic mobility non-profit in the United States. Prior to EMPath, she was professor...
Christie Collins
Dr. Christie Collins was born and raised in the American South, and she has recently moved back to Mississippi after a decade away. She currently...
Erika Council
Erika Council is a baker, food writer, recipe developer, food photographer, educator, and owner/chef of Bomb Biscuits. She is the creator of the website...
Peter Cozzens
Peter Cozzens is the author or editor of eighteen acclaimed books on the American Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West,...
Jerry Craft
Jerry Craft is the author-illustrator of #1
New York Times
bestselling graphic novels
New Kid
, and its companion book,
Class Act<
...
Eli Cranor
Eli Cranor lives and writes from the banks of Lake Dardanelle, a reservoir of the Arkansas River nestled in the heart of True Grit country....
Susan Cushman
Susan Cushman is author of five books: two novels,
John and Mary Margaret
and
Cherry Bomb
; two memoirs,
Pilgrim Interrupted<
...
Jack E. Davis
Jack E. Davis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a professor of history and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of...
Patrick Dean
Patrick Dean lives, works, and plays in and around Monteagle, Tennessee. He has written speeches for Congressional candidates, taught inner-city high-school English, and earned a...
Carmen Agra Deedy
Carmen Agra Deedy, is an award-winning author of fifteen books for young readers, including
The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet!, Martina the Beautiful
...
Ben Depp
Ben Depp is an artist and National Geographic Explorer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Much of Ben's work has centered around environmental issues. In 2014, Depp...
Patrick deWitt
Patrick deWitt is the author of the novels
French Exit
(a national bestseller),
The Sisters Brothers
(a New York Times bestseller...
James Dickson
James Dickson teaches English and Creative Writing at Germantown High School, just outside of Jackson, MS. An MFA graduate from the Bennington Writing Seminars, he...
Anton DiSclafani
Anton DiSclafani is the author of two novels,
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
and
The After Party
. Her columns on...
Nancy Dorman-Hickson
A contributor to All Day,
All Night: Life, Death & Angels
(Madville Publishing) edited by Susan Cushman, Nancy Dorman-Hickson considers her essay ...
Alice Faye Duncan
Alice Faye Duncan is a National Board Educator who was born and raised in Memphis-the front door of the Mississippi Delta. She writes picture books...
Lee Durkee
Lee Durkee is the author of
Stalking Shakespeare
(Scribner), a memoir about his decades long search for an authentic portrait of Will...
John T. Edge
John T Edge hosts the television show TrueSouth (SEC Network, ESPN, & Hulu), now in its sixth season, and serves
Garden & Gun
as a...
Helen Ellis
Helen Ellis is the author of five books including the
New York Times
bestselling
American Housewife and Southern Lady Code
. She...
Beth Ann Fennelly
Beth Ann Fennelly, a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, is the former poet laureate of Mississippi and teaches in the MFA Program at the...
Ellen Ann Fentress
Ellen Ann Fentress is a journalist, writer and filmmaker. Her book
The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning
is being released...
Rien Fertel
Rien Fertel is the author of four books, including:
The One True Barbecue, Southern Rock Opera
, and, most recently,
Brown Pelican
....
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Ann Fisher-Wirth's seventh book of poems is
Paradise Is Jagged
(Terrapin Books, 2023). Her sixth is
The Bones of Winter Birds
, and...
John M. Floyd
John M. Floyd is the author of more than a thousand short stories in publications like
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s
...
Wayne Flynt
Wayne Flynt is a southern historian and educator who retired after teaching for decades at Auburn University, where he directed more than sixty graduate programs....
Richard Ford
Richard Ford is the author of
The Sportswriter; Independence Day
, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award;
The Lay
...
Josh Foreman
Josh Foreman writes about Mississippi and the broader South with his longtime friend Ryan Starrett. In their narrative history books, Josh and Ryan tell stories...
Joey Garrison
Joey Garrison is a White House correspondent for USA TODAY covering President Joe Biden. Garrison's reporting has centered largely on Biden's domestic agenda, including historic...
Ross Gay
Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry:
Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding
, winner of the PEN American...
Monika Gehlawat
Monika Gehlawat is Associate Director of the School of Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi where she teaches courses on...
Chris Goodwin
Chris Goodwin is host of the Speaking of Mississippi podcast and the History Is Lunch lecture series for the Mississippi Department of Archives ...
Maryemma Graham
Maryemma Graham, a native of Augusta, Georgia is University Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Kansas and Founding Director of the History of...
Matthew Guinn
A native of Atlanta, Matthew Guinn earned a BA in English from the University of Georgia. He continued graduate school at the University of Mississippi,...
Alvin Hall
Alvin Hall, author of
Driving The Green Book
(HarperOne) is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, author, political activist, and renowned financial...
Sarah Frances Hardy
A resident of Oxford, Mississippi, Sarah Frances Hardy is a retired lawyer and (not retired) fine artist who has redirected her creative juices towards writing...
Gregg Harper
First elected to Congress in 2009, Gregg served five terms representing Mississippi’s 3rd Congressional District. During his time in Congress, he served as a member...
Derrick Harriell
Derrick Harriell is the Ottilie Schillig Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi where he directs the African American...
Terah Shelton Harris
Terah Shelton Harris is a librarian and freelance writer who now writes upmarket fiction with bittersweet endings. As a freelancer, her work has appeared in...
Cheryl A. Head
Cheryl A. Head (she/her) is a writer, television producer, and broadcast executive. She is also the author of the award-winning
Charlie Mack Motown<
...
Rea Hederman
Rea Hederman is a native of Jackson, Mississippi. Mr. Hederman has been publisher of The New York Review of Books since 1984.
Peter Heller
Peter Heller is the best-selling author of
The Guide, The River, Celine, The Painter
, and
The Dog Stars
, which has been...
James H. Herring
A new historical memoir,
The Switcher
, by Canton, Mississippi native Jim Herring, recounts his political career in both the Mississippi Republican and Democratic...
Neilson Hubbard
Authenticity is an overused word, but Neilson Hubbard embodies this in all of his art. In 2019, Hubbard produced the Grammy nominated 'Rifles and Rosary Beads'...
James Hynes
James Hynes is the author of
Next, Kings of Infinite Space, The Lecturer's Tale, Publish and Perish
, and
The Wild Colonial Boy<
...
K. Iver
K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. Their work has appeared in
Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Adroit, TriQuarterly
, and...
Jenny Jackson
Jenny Jackson is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Pineapple Street
. A graduate of Williams College and the Columbia Publishing...
Nash Jenkins
Nash Jenkins grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina, and graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 2011. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University, he...
Claire Jiménez
Claire Jiménez is a Puerto Rican writer who grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island. She is the author of the short story collection ...
Pamela D.C. Junior
Motivational speaker, historian, and women's activist, Pamela D.C. Junior is a native of Jackson, Mississippi and earned a B.S. in Education with a...
Averyell Kessler
Averyell Kessler, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After graduating LSU with a bachelor's degree in English, she entered the first...
Harrison Scott Key
Harrison Scott Key is the author of three books, including his newest book,
How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told<
...
Dean King
Dean King is an award-winning author of ten nonfiction books. He crossed the Sahara on camels and in Land Rovers while researching Skeletons on the...
Zack Knoll
Zack Knoll is an Editor at Abrams, publishing a range of fiction, narrative nonfiction, and illustrated books. He was most recently an Associate Editor at...
Joe Lee
Joe Lee has a background in radio, television, and journalism and was a radio disc jockey and a television weatherman before becoming a full-time writer...
Anya Liftig
A writer and artist, Anya Liftig has had her creative work exhibited at Tate Modern and MoMA and published in the
New York Times
...
Emily Liner
Emily Liner is the founder of Friendly City Books, an independent bookstore and press in Columbus, Mississippi.
Stretch Like Scarlet
is her first...
Zelda Lockhart
Zelda Lockhart is the author of
Fifth Born, Cold Running Creek
, and
Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle
. Her fiction, poetry,...
Mariama J. Lockington
Mariama J. Lockington is an adoptee, educator, and Stonewall Honor-winning author. She has been telling stories and making her own books since the second grade,...
Jeffrey Dale Lofton
Jeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs, Georgia, best known as the home of Roosevelt's Little White House. He calls the nation's capital home now...
Beverly Lowry
Beverly Lowry is the author of six novels and four previous works of nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in
The New Yorker, The
...
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry has been awarded the Newbery Medal twice-first for
Number the Stars
, then for
The Giver
. The author of more...
Ebony Lumumba
Ebony Lumumba is an associate professor of English at Jackson State University and serves as department chair. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature...
E. R. Lutken
E. R. Lutken worked as a family physician on the Navajo Nation for many years, then taught science and math in rural Colorado. She is...
Lindsay Lynch
Lindsay Lynch is a writer from Washington, D.C. A longtime indie bookseller, she currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she works as a book...
David Magee
David Magee is the bestselling author of the award-winning
Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love and Loss
, a
Publisher's
...
Rebecca Makkai
Rebecca Makkai's latest novel,
I Have Some Questions For You
, is a
New York Times
Best Seller. Her novel,
...
Steven Manheim
Steven Manheim is an award-winning photographer from Cleveland, Ohio, including awards from the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors and for All Ohio Excellence in Journalism. ...
Cynthia Manick
Cynthia Manick is the author of
No Sweet Without Brine
(Amistad-HarperCollins, 2023), editor of
The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero
...
Janae Marks
Janae Marks is an author of middle grade novels. Her debut,
From the Desk of Zoe Washington
, released in 2020 and was named a...
Greg Marshall
Greg Marshall was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Prose, Marshall is a graduate of the Michener...
Betsy Fischer Martin
Betsy Fischer Martin is an Emmy-winning journalist and former TV news executive. Currently she is the Executive Director of the Women & Politics Institute at American...
Jeffrey Martin
Jeffrey Martin is a lifelong Mississippian and has been a public librarian for over a decade. Before his career with the library, he spent time...
Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin is a senior political columnist for
Politico
, which he joined after spending nearly a decade as the national political correspondent for...
James McBride
James McBride is the author of the
New York Times
-bestselling Oprah's Book Club selection
Deacon King Kong
, the National Book...
Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including
In the Language of My Captor
, which was a finalist for the...
Dr. Preselfannie W. McDaniels
Dr. Preselfannie W. McDaniels currently serves as Professor of English and Graduate Dean at Jackson State University. She is former Chair of the Department of...
Mindy McGinnis
Mindy McGinnis is an Edgar Award-winning novelist who writes across multiple genres, including post-apocalyptic, historical, thriller, contemporary, mystery, and fantasy. While her settings may change,...
C. Liegh McInnis
C. Liegh McInnis is a poet, short story writer, and retired English instructor at Jackson State University, the former editor/publisher of
...
Margaret McMullan
Margaret McMullan is the author of nine award-winning books including the novel,
In My Mother’s House,
the story collection
Aftermath Lounge,<
...
Diane C. McPhail
Diane C. McPhail is an award winning author of two historical novels:
The Abolitionist's Daughter
and
The Seamstress of New Orleans
,...
Clémence Michallon
Clémence Michallon was born and raised near Paris. She studied journalism at City University of London, received a master's in Journalism from Columbia...
Mary Miller
Mary Miller is the author of two short story collections and two novels, most recently
Biloxi: A Novel
(Liveright 2019). Her fiction has appeared...
Jamila Minnicks
Jamila Minnicks’ novel
Moonrise Over New Jessup
(Algonquin Books, 2023) won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. In 2022, she was awarded a...
Ryan Mitchell
Ryan Mitchell serves as the business-savvy brain behind his father's brand. Ryan has worked in the Mitchell family restaurant from a young age. He...
Annabel Monaghan
Annabel Monaghan's first novel for adults,
Nora Goes Off Script
, is an IndieNext and LibraryReads pick and was selected as a best book...
Michael Morris
Michael Morris is the director of public engagement at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, where he has worked since 2016. Previously, Morris worked at...
Eric L. Motley
Eric L. Motley, Ph.D., is the Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He previously served as an Executive Vice...
Robert Mugge
Since 1976, Robert Mugge has created three dozen documentaries about various aspects of American culture, with particular emphasis on traditional forms of American music. In his...
Scott Naugle
In addition to serving on the book festival board of directors since the very beginning, Scott is a member of the Mississippi Arts Commission and...
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatahil is the author of the NYT bestselling book of nature essays,
World of Wonders
, which was named Barnes and Noble's Book...
Doan Phuong Nguyen
Doan Phuong Nguyen is a middle grade author, photographer, daydreamer, and creative girlie girl. She was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States...
Nash Nunnery
A proud native of the Mississippi Delta, freelance writer Nash Nunnery has penned newspaper and magazine articles for various publications over the years, including the ...
Vivian O’Neal
Vivian O’Neal is a 25-year-old native of Hattiesburg, Miss. She recently graduated with a Master of Education in Higher Education Administration from the University...
Nina Parikh
Nina Parikh has been with the Mississippi Film Office for 25 years, currently serving as the director. She studied filmmaking at New York University and University...
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett is the author of nine novels:
The Patron Saint of Liars
,
Taft
,
The Magicianâ€
...
Jon Parrish Peede
Jon Parrish Peede is the Visiting Writer in Residence at Mississippi Valley State University and lives in Greenwood. He is also a Senior Fellow of...
Mike Pence
Mike Pence served as the 48th Vice President of the United States (2017–2021), 50th Governor of Indiana (2013–2017), and as a member of the US House of...
Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection,
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize,...
Tom Piazza
Tom Piazza is celebrated both as a novelist and as a writer on American music. His twelve books include the novels
The Auburn Conference<
...
Hannah Pittard
Hannah Pittard is the author of four novels and one memoir. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell Colony...
Andrew Porter
Andrew Porter is the author of the short story collection
The Theory of Light and Matter
(Vintage/Penguin Random House), which won the...
Kevin Powers
Kevin Powers is the author of
The Yellow Birds
, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a...
Marshall Ramsey
Marshall Ramsey, a nationally recognized editorial cartoonist, shares his cartoons and travels the state as
Mississippi Today
’s Editor-At-Large. Marshall can often be...
Chuck Reece
Chuck Reece has been the editor-in-chief of
Salvation South
, an online magazine and refuge for Southern storytellers, since its founding in 2021. Previously, he...
Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds is a #1
New York Times
bestselling author writes novels and poetry for young adult and middle-grade audiences. His award-winning book,
...
Lauren Rhoades
Lauren Rhoades is a creative nonfiction writer who explores themes of identity, place, and belonging. She is director of grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission...
Nathaniel Rich
Nathaniel Rich is the author of
Losing Earth
, a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Award and the winner of...
Lyn Roberts
Lyn Roberts has been a bookseller at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi since 1988. Sometime after that she became the general manager of what is now...
Stuart Rockoff
Stuart Rockoff received his Ph.D. in US history from the University of Texas at Austin with a special emphasis on immigration and American Jewish...
Ellen Hunter Ruffin
Ellen Hunter Ruffin, associate professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, has been curator of the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection since 2006. She has served...
Richard Russo
Richard Russo is the author of nine novels, most recently
Chances Are . . ., Everybody's Fool
and
That Old Cape Magic
; two collections...
Gabriella Saab
Gabriella Saab is the author of
The Last Checkmate
. She graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor of business administration in marketing...
Jeff Shaara
Jeff Shaara is the award-winning,
New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal
and
Publishers Weekly
bestselling author of seventeen novels,...
Leanne Shapton
Leanne Shapton is an author, artist and publisher based in New York City. She is currently the art editor at
The New York Review
...
David Sheffield
Gulf Coast native David Sheffield is a 1972 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. During college, he worked at the Hattiesburg television station WDAM. After...
Elizabeth Simmons
Elizabeth Simmons received an Ed.S. in Secondary Administration from Delta State and M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Southern...
Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson is the author of
Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood
, and
...
George Singleton
George Singleton has published ten collections of stories, two novels, and a book of writing advice. Over 250 of his stories have appeared in the
...
Brendan Slocumb
Brendan Nicholaus Slocumb was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and holds a degree in music education (with concentrations in violin and viola) from the University...
Clay Smith
Clay Smith is the literary director at the Library of Congress. He leads the office that curates the National Book Festival and directs the Library's...
Katy Simpson Smith
Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of the novels
The Story of Land and Sea
,...
Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of
You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of
...
Michael Farris Smith
Michael Farris Smith is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with
Esquire, NPR, Southern Living, Garden & Gun,
...
Tema Stauffer
Tema Stauffer is a photographer whose work examines the social, economic, and cultural landscape of American spaces. She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography...
Ryan Steed
Ryan Steed is a Memphis-based photographer and educator. He possesses a deep connection to the American South, and his work focuses on uncovering its contradictions...
Heather Marie Stur
Dr. Heather Marie Stur is a professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and a senior fellow in USM’s Dale Center for...
Ben Terris
Ben Terris is a political feature writer for the
Washington Post
. Once, while reporting a profile, he ended up in the emergency room...
Sami Thomason-Fyke
Sami Thomason-Fyke (she/her) is a Youth Services Specialist at the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library. She was formerly a bookseller, events coordinator, and...
Valerie Walley
Valerie Walley is a Regional Sales Director for Penguin Random House. She lives in Ridgeland.
Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir,
The Glass Castle,
has been a
New
...
Jay Wellons
Jay Wellons MD, MSPH holds the Cal Turner Chair of Pediatric Neurosurgery and is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical...
Candace Cox Wheeler
A fourth generation Biloxi, Mississippi, native, Candace Cox Wheeler is a partner in the law firm of Wheeler and Wheeler, PLLC, where she has worked...
Neil White
Neil White has been a newspaper editor, magazine publisher, advertising executive and federal prisoner. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where he operates a small publishing...
Tyriek White
Tyriek Rashawn White is a writer, musician, and educator from Brooklyn, NY. He is currently the media director of Lampblack Literary Foundation, which seeks to...
Kathleen W. Wickham
Kathleen W. Wickham is a professor of journalism in the School of Journalism & New Media at the University of Mississippi. Her edited book,
James
...
Andrew Wiest
Dr. Andrew Wiest is University Distinguished Professor of History in the School of Humanities at the University of Southern Mississippi. Also the founding director of...
Chad L. Williams
Chad L. Williams is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. He is the...
Enrika Williams
Chef Enrika Williams is a Mississippi-born and raised creator and chef-owner of Fauna Foodworks. Chef Enrika has had the unique experience of working with her...
Charles Reagan Wilson
Charles Reagan Wilson is professor emeritus of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi, where he taught 33 years. He is the former director...
Chris Wimmer
Chris Wimmer is the creator, host, and lead writer of "Legends of the Old West," a long-form, narrative podcast that tells true stories of the...
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including
The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That
...
Valerie Winn
Valerie Winn, an art teacher, photographer, and freelance feature writer, was the recipient of a Literary Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission. A native...
Ilyon Woo
Ilyon Woo is the New York Times best-selling author of
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
and
...
Jerid P. Woods (Akili Nzuri)
Jerid P. Woods, also known as Akili Nzuri, is a writer, educator, Ph.D. Candidate, and literary influencer. He was born and raised in Natchez,...
Snowden Wright
Snowden Wright is the author of the novel
American Pop
, a
Wall Street Journal
WSJ+ Book of the Month, selection...
