Helon Habila
Travelers
Helon Habila, author of Travelers, is a professor at George Mason University. He was born in Nigeria. His other novels are, Waiting for an Angel, Measuring Time, and Oil on Water. He is also the author of the nonfiction book, The Chibok Girls. He is a contributing editor to VQR.
Jo Watson Hackl
Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe
Jo Watson Hackl, author of Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe, grew up in rural Mississippi. Now, she lives in Greenville, S.C., with her family. She graduated from Millsaps College and Yale Law School, and founded outdoorosity.org. Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe was an IndieNext List Pick, an Okra Pick, and won the Southern Book Prize.
Grace Elizabeth Hale
Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
Grace Elizabeth Hale, author of Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture, is the Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at UVA. Her previous books include A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America and Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940.
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, author of Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America, is the founding director of the Southern Oral History Program and the Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History Emerita at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is also the author of Revolt Against Chivalry and Like a Family.
Njelle Hamilton
Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel
Njelle W. Hamilton, author of Phonographic Memories, is assistant professor of English and African-American and African Studies at UVA. She specializes in 20th and 21st century Caribbean literary and cultural studies, especially the impact of music and trauma on novelistic narrative.
Alex Harris
Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922
Alex Harris, co-author of Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922, is a writer, photographer, and a founder of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, where he has taught for many years.
Vashti Harrison
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
Vashti Harrison, author of Little Legends, earned her MFA in film/video from CalArts and her BA from the University of Virginia. Her experimental films and documentaries have shown around the world at film festivals. After a brief stint in television as a production coordinator, she is now a freelance graphic designer and a picture-book illustrator. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Gar Anthony Haywood
Good Man Gone Bad
Gar Anthony Haywood, author of Good Man Gone Bad, is the Shamus and Anthony Award–winning of twelve crime novels, including six featuring African-American private investigator Aaron Gunner. His novels have been praised by the New York Times and earned starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly.
Paul Heitsch
Dead Fast
Paul Heitsch is an audiobook narrator and producer whose works span multiple genres, including romance, contemporary fiction, science fiction, and non-fiction. As of this writing he has performed over 180 titles, many for independently-published authors.
Bernard L. Herman
A South You Never Ate: Savoring Flavors and Stories from the Eastern Shore of Virginia
Bernard L. Herman, author of A South You Never Ate: Savoring Flavors and Stories from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, researches, writes, and teaches while serving as the George B. Tindall Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Adriana Herrera
American Love Story
Adriana Herrera, author of American Love Story, is an Afro-Dominicana who loves writing romance full of people who look and sound like her people getting unapologetic happy endings. Her debut novel, American Dreamer, was featured on Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Book Riot, and the TODAY Show on NBC. She lives in New York City.
Emily Hilliard
The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables
Emily Hilliard, contributor to The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell, is the West Virginia state folklorist and founding director of the West Virginia Folklife Program at the West Virginia Humanities Council. She is currently at work on a book based on her folklife fieldwork in West Virginia, with the Ohio University Press.
Jody Hobbs Hesler
Jody Hobbs Hesler is a teacher at WriterHouse in Charlottesville, Va. Her work appears or is forthcoming in North America Review’s Open Space, CRAFT, Pithead Chapel, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
Rick Hodges
To Follow Elephants
Rick Hodges, author of To Follow Elephants, is a professional writer in Washington, D.C., by day, and author and playwright by night. He earned his BA from the University of Virginia in 1987. He lives in Arlington with his wife and two daughters.
Cary Holladay
Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella
Cary Holladay, author of Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella, has published seven previous volumes of fiction. Her awards include an O. Henry Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A native of Virginia, she teaches at the University of Memphis.
Bruce Holsinger
The Gifted School
Bruce Holsinger, author of The Gifted School, is Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His previous books include the award-winning historical novels A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire as well as several nonfiction books on literature and history. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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