Michael Abraham, author of Harmonic Highways, was born and raised in Southwest Virginia and writes about his local region. A mechanical engineer by education and businessman by trade, Abraham writes full time and has published three books over three years.

Genre:Non-Fiction

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Chuck Adams has worked in publishing for more than 40 years. For the last seven years, he has served as Executive Editor at Algonquin Books.

Genre:Publishing

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Ellery Adams, author of The Last Word and others in the Books by the Bay series, grew up near the Long Island Sound. She now writes full-time from her home in Richmond, Virginia.

Genre:Crime Wave

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Stacy Hawkins Adams, author of Coming Home, is a women's fiction author and communications entrepreneur. She infuses social issues and matters of faith into creative plots that feature women at varying stages of personal growth.

Genre:Fiction

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Corban Addison, author of A Walk Across the Sun, holds a degree in Law from UVa. While researching this book, he traveled to India and spent a month with a team from IJM (International Justice Mission). This is his first novel.

Genre:Crime Wave

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Matthew Affron is the Curator of Modern Art and the Academic Curator at the University of Virginia Art Museum. He is also an Associate Professor of Art History in the UVa McIntire Department of Art.

Genre:Non-Fiction

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Kwame Alexander, author of Crush: Love Poems and Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band, has written 14 books of poetry and fiction. He resides in the Washington DC area where he is the Founding Director of Book-in-a-Day, Inc.

Genres:Poetry, Family

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Dr. Eben Alexander spent 25 years as a neuroscientist, then went into a coma from bacterial meningitis. He had a transcendental, near-death experience and is writing a book about his profound odyssey, a rich synthesis of science and spirituality.

Genre:Non-Fiction

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Anna Alter, author/illustrator of A Photo for Greta, grew up in Charlottesville. Her books include a Junior Library Guild selection and she has twice been included in the Society of Illustrators' Original Art Show. She lives in Western Massachusetts.

Genre:Family

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Lisa Alther, author of Washed in the Blood, has published seven novels and one novella as well as many articles and stories. She grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee, and now divides her time between Vermont and New York City.

Genre:Fiction

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Tom Angleberger's The Strange Case of Origami Yoda was hailed as "the most original novel of the year" by the Boston Globe. A participant in the 2011 National Book Festival, he lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, with his wife, the author-illustrator Cece Bell.

Genre:Family

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Homero Aridjis, author of Eyes to See Otherwise and Solar Poems, has written more than 40 books of poetry and prose and is one of of Latin America's leading environmental activists. A diplomat and journalist, he was twice elected President of International PEN.

Genre:Poetry

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Lucy Arlington, author of Buried In a Book, is an avid reader, cook, and gardener. If she had her way, she would divide her time between preparing delectables in her kitchen, traveling the globe on her scooter, and reading.

Genre:Crime Wave

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Katharine Ashe, author of When A Scot Loves A Lady, was named among Booklist's "New Stars of Historical Romance." A professor of history, she lives with her husband, son, two dogs, and a garden she calls romantic rather than unkempt.

Genres:Fiction, Publishing

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Randy Asplund makes calligraphed and illuminated books by hand, using the same tools, materials, and styles of the Middle Ages. He is writing a comprehensive book about it and teaches everything from making parchment and paints to binding the book.

Genres:Fiction, Non-Fiction

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Kurt Ayau, author of The Brick Murder: A Tragedy and Other Stories, is America's only published fiction writer of Cape Verdean-American descent. He has won awards from Glimmer Train and the Faulkner Society of New Orleans. He teaches at Virginia Military Institute.

Genre:Fiction

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Edward Ayers, author of America on the Eve of Civil War, is President of the University of Richmond and former Dean at UVa. A renowned Civil War historian, Ayers helped found the Virginia Center for Digital History and oversaw the Valley of the Shadow project. He is a consultant on the "Making Sense of the Civil War" project, a program of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.

Genre:Non-Fiction

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