Fiction

	Dorothy Allison is the author of Bastard Out of Carolina, a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award, and Cavedweller a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, as well as the memoir Two or Three Things I Know for Sure. 3/20, 4 p.m.
	Thomas Fox Averill, author of Secrets of the Tsil Café, has also published two story collections. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an O. Henry Award winner, he is writer-in-residence and a professor at Washburn University. 3/23, 2 p.m.
	David Baldacci is the author of seven novels including Last Man Standing, a thriller about the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team. Baldacci’s work is published in more than 80 countries and 33 languages, with over 30 million books in print worldwide. 3/22, 6 p.m.
	Brad Barkley’s novel, Money, Love was a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" title and a Washington Post "Best of 2000" selection. Two new books are forthcoming. A former NEA Creative Writing Fellow, he lives and teaches in western Maryland. 3/22, 2 p.m.
	Elizabeth Benedict is the author of Slow Dancing, a finalist for the National Book Awards and The Joy of Writing Sex. Her new novel is Almost. She has taught at Princeton, Swarthmore and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.3/21, 8 p.m.; 3/22, 2 p.m.
	Carrie Brown, author of The House on Belle Isle, teaches fiction writing at Sweet Briar College. Author of three novels, Rose’s Garden, Lamb in Love and The Hatbox Baby, she recently received a Virginia Literary Award. 3/21, 4 p.m.
	Laura Brylawski-Miller was born and raised in Milan, Italy. She learned English by reading comic books. Her first novel, The Square at Vigevano, was the co-winner of the 2000 Washington Writers Publishing House Fiction competition. 3/22, 4 p.m.
	Amanda Cockrell, most recently the author of Pomegranate Seed, is a native of California. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction, she is the director of the Hollins University Graduate Program in Children’s Literature and managing editor of The Hollins Critic. 3/21, 6 p.m.; 3/22, 4 p.m.
Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren is the author of if nothing happens….She has written for many publications including Victoria, Country Living, Southern Living, Highlights for Children and a children’s anthology, Short Short Stories for Reading Aloud. 3/20, 4 p.m.
	Maribeth Fischer, author of The Language of Goodbye, is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Smart Family Foundation Prize. Her creative essays have appeared in The Iowa Review and The Yale Review, among other publications. 3/22, 4 p.m.
Mark Friedman, author of Columbus Slaughters Braves, attended film school at the University of Southern California. He currently lectures at the Johns Hopkins University writing program and lives in Baltimore. 3/22, 12 noon.
	Donna M. Gershten's M. Gershten’s novel, Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth, recived Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether prize for socially or politically engaged fiction. She lives in Colorado, dividing her time between Denver and the Huerfano Valley.. 3/23, 2 p.m.
	Glen David Gold is the author of Carter Beats the Devil. He received his MFA in fiction writing from UC Irvine and tries to take his dog to the beach bi-weekly. 3/22, 2 p.m.; 3/23, 4 p.m.
	Judy Goldman’s novel, The Slow Way Back, won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for Best First Work of Fiction, and was short-listed for the Southeast Booksellers’ Association’s Annual Fiction Award. 3/23, 4 p.m.
	Miriam González-Hernández, author of Deshojando arenas and Calez y otros espejismos, earned her Doctoral Degree in Hispanic American Literature from Florida State University, under a Dorothy Hoffman Scholarship. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Hispanic Studies Department of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. 3/23, 4 p.m.
Sandra Gurvis is the author of The Pipe Dreamers, a historical novel about the Vietnam War protest movement. Her writing focuses on the offbeat, unconventional careers for non-conformists, day trips from Columbus, Ohio, and the flower children of the 1960s. 3/22, 10 a.m.
Kate Hamilton, poet, is making a leap of faith into the world of fiction. She will soon complete her first children’s book, coauthored with her six-year-old son. 3/20, 4 p.m.
	Donna Hemans grew up in Brown’s Town, Jamaica. She received an MFA from American University after earning her bachelor’s degree from Fordham University. She is working on a second novel, Down From Mosquito Mountain. 3/22, 12 noon; 3/23, 12 noon.
	Judith Ryan Hendricks, author of Bread Alone: A Novel, was a journalist, copywriter, computer instructor and travel agent before she fell in love with the rhythms of baking. She lives and bakes in Long Beach, California. 3/23, 2 p.m.
Andrea O’Reilly Herrera is Director of the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is the editor of ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora .The Pearl of the Antilles is her first novel. 3/23, 2 p.m.
	Margaret Hoffman has published short stories, poetry and scholarly essays in literary magazines and journals. Her documentaries were produced by WUNC-TV’s North Carolina This Week. Blackbeard is her first novel. 3/22, 4 p.m.
	Ann Hood has seven novels and nonfiction books Creating Character Emotions and Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time. Her new novel is The Night I Met Zelda Fitzgerald. 3/21, 2 p.m.
	Daniel Jones's first novel, After Lucy, was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Best First Novel of 2000. For his short fiction he received the Transatlantic Review Award from the Henfield Foundation and the AWP's Intro Award. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. 3/21, 6 p.m.; 3/22, 4 p.m.
Sue Monk Kidd is the author of two non-fiction books, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and When the Heart Waits. She lives beside a salt marsh near Charleston, South Carolina. The Secret Life of Bees is her first novel. 3/22, 4 p.m.
	Eric Kraft, author of Inflating a Dog and Leaving Small Hotel, was once part-owner and co-captain of a clam boat, which sank. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. 3/21, 8 p.m; 3/22 , 12 noon.
Kate Manning is an Emmy Award-winning producer of television documentaries. She is a graduate of Yale University and lives in New York City with her husband and three children. White Girl is her first novel. 3/22, 4 p.m.
	Bernice L. McFadden, author of This Bitter Earth and the national bestsellers Sugar and The Warmest December, has been awarded a Black Writers Alliance Gold Pen Award for best mainstream fiction and best new author. 3/21, 8 p.m.
	Lewis Nordan is the author of Boy With Loaded Gun. He is a Shakespearean scholar and winner of a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, American Library Association Notable Book Citations, Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. 3/23, 12 noon; 3/23, 8 p.m.
Michael Parker’s novel, Hello Down There, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Towns Without Rivers is his new novel. He is an advisory editor for The Greensboro Review. 3/23, 2 p.m.
Caroline Preston is the author of two novels: Jackie by Josie and Lucy Crocker 2.0. She received a Massachusetts Council for the Arts award. She lives in Charlottesville with her husband, the novelist Christopher Tilghman. 3/21, 4 p.m.
	Tracy Price-Thompson, author of Black Coffee, is a decorated Desert Storm veteran, who graduated from Army Officer Candidate School after ten years as an enlisted soldier. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and children. 3/22 ,12 noon; 3/23, 10 a.m.
Alexandra Ripley is one of America's most highly praised writers of historical fiction. She is the author of From Fields of Gold and four national bestsellers: Scarlett, the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, Charleston, On Leaving Charleston, and New Orleans Legacy. She is currently at work on a historical novel based in Central Virginia. 3/22, 2 p.m.
	Kimberla Lawson Roby, author of It’s a Thin Line, was born in Rockford, Illinois, where she resides. Behind Closed Doors and Casting the First Stone were #1 Blackboard bestsellers. 3/22, 12 noon; 3/23, 10 a.m.
	M. J. Rose, columnist for Wired News, is the author of two novels, Lip Service and In Fidelity. The latter was a Cosmopolitan magazine Book of the Month. Her next novel, Flesh Tones, will be out in July. 3/22, 2 p.m.; 3/23 Publishers’ Day.
	Alex Sanchez’s Rainbow Boys explores three high schoolers‘ coming to terms with their homosexuality. Born in Mexico and now residing in Rosslyn, Virginia, Sanchez has been a counselor of youth and families in the United States and abroad. 3/21, 12 noon.
Mary Lee Settle's latest novel is I, Roger Williams: An Autobiography. She is working on a book called Spanish Recognitions. She won the National Book Award for Blood Tie and founded the Pen\Faulkner Award. She lives in Virginia. 3/23, 10 a.m.; 3/23, 6 p.m.
Odessa Shaw, born in Durham, North Carolina, had his work published in the journal Sauti Mypa. He is the morning TV Director for North Carolina NBC affiliate WNCN. 3/23, 2 p.m.
	Avelino Stanley has authored the following books: Cuentos, Equis, Los disparos, Catedral de la libido, La máscara del tiempo, Tiempo muerto (National Prize for Best Novel), Narrativa Junta (Collected Works) and Al fin del mundo me iré (Finalist in the International Prize for Novel Casa de Teatro). 3/23, 4 p.m.
	Trisha R. Thomas is the author of Nappily Ever After, the story of a young woman who tosses tradition -- and her hair-straightening cream -- out the window. This first novel was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award and a Gold Pen finalist for Best Mainstream Fiction and Best New Author. 3/22, 2 p.m.; 3/23, 12 noon.
Christopher Tilghman is the author of the novel, Mason’s Retreat, and story collections, In A Father's Place",and The Way People Run. He teaches creative writing at UVA. His workhas appeared in the New Yorker, other magazines and several times in the annual Best American Short Stories. 3/23, 12 noon.
	Fred Viebahn’s books include the novels Die schwarzen Tauben, Das Haus Che, Larissa and Die Fesseln der Freiheit (released in America as The Stain). He came to the United States in 1976 as a Fulbright fellow in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. 3/22, 12 noon.
	Joseph Weisberg wrote his first short story, "The Mid-Life Crisis Exploits," when he was twelve. Joseph leads seminars that teach high school students how to use their natural storytelling voices to improve their writing. His novel is 10th Grade. 3/23, 12 noon.