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Q&A with 2022 Festival speaker Lindsay Merbaum
Lindsay Merbaum, author of The Gold Persimmon, is a queer feminist and high priestess of home mixology. Her short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart, among other prizes, and her …
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Q&A with 2022 Festival speaker Jorge L. Contreras
Jorge L. Contreras, author of The Genome Defense, received his law degree from Harvard and teaches intellectual property, science policy, and genetics law and ethics at the University of Utah. He …
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Q&A with 2022 Festival speaker M.K. England
M.K. England, author of The One True Me and You, lives in a small house in rural Virginia packed with video games, dogs, plants, Star Wars memorabilia, and one tiny human. …
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Q&A with 2022 Festival speaker Lisa Russ Spaar
Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of over ten books, including Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems and Orexia: Poems. Her debut novel, Paradise Close, will appear in April 2022. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship. …
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Q&A with 2022 Festival speaker Naomi Hirahara
Naomi Hirahara, author of Clark and Division and The Eternal Lei, is the Edgar Award–winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, including Summer of the Big Bachi, which was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of …
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Q&A with 2022 Festival speaker Ran Walker
Ran Walker, author of Keep It 100: 100-Word Stories, is an award-winning author of twenty-three books. He teaches creative writing at Hampton University and for Writer’s Digest University. He lives in …
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Q&A with #VaBook2022 Poster Artist Aijung Kim
Aijung Kim, illustrator of the official 2022 Festival artwork, is a Virginia artist, living and working in Richmond. We were thrilled for the chance to work with her to create …
