The Readers & Writers
Meet Our Authors and Guests
2018
Alan Alda
Best-known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H. He has won seven Emmys and been nominated for an Academy Award and Tony. See more…
Tina Alexis Allen
As a break-out star on WGN’s hit series “Outsiders, ”actress/playwright/author/ director Tina Alexis Allen most recently starred as Shurn, a force to be reckoned with in the clash-of-cultures drama rooted in coal mining Kentucky. See more….
Sherry Amatenstein
She has published essays, lifestyle and advice pieces in the Washington Post, vox.com, Playboy, Marie Claire, Observer, This Week, and New York. She has published three non-fiction relationship books and… See more….
Suzi Banks Baum
Embodied creative Suzi Banks Baum is devoted to illuminating the gifts within each person she meets and providing a sacred space for those gifts to be experienced and shared… See more…
Julie Barton
Author of the NYork Times bestseller “Dog Medicine, How My Dog Saved Me From Myself” a self-published book. See more…
DC Caruso
She has published four novels including The Winner and Snowbound. She is honored to host a panel of romance writers this year.. See more…
Veronica Coyne
A poet and Open Mic Host for Emerging Voices Open Mic Night, a community venue held in Milford, PA for poets and writers. See more…
Michelle Darné
Michelle Darné is the founder of Simply Parent, a non-profit that is dedicated to forging a society where good parenting is protected in its diverse genesis, forms and colors…. See more…
Dellana Diovisalvo
A librarian, poet and aspiring novelist, her poems have appeared in The Cafe Review, Hunger Mountain, Portland Review, Soundings East, Zone3, Pearl and Sierra Nevada Review… See more…
Nancy DuTertre
Known as “The Skeptic Psychic”, is a medical intuitive, psychic and paranormal researcher. See more…
Joules Evans
Occasionally radioactive with a chance of superpowers, Joules Evans uses them to fight cancer and also to write. She’s an author, speaker, photographer, writing workshop leader…. See more…
Bob Eckstein
An award-winning illustrator, writer, New Yorker cartoonist, and author of the New York Times bestselling Footnotes from the Greatest Bookstores. See more…
Jane Friedman
Was world-wide CEO of Harper/Collins Publishing and co-founder of Open Road Integrated Medi… See more…
Angela Giles
Angela M Giles has been featured in print at The Healing Muse and is a contributor to Shades of Blue, an anthology on depression and suicide from Seal Press…. See more…
Megan Smith Harris
Creator of The Buddy System and the critically acclaimed feature doc, Trial by Fire: Lives Re-forged. Megan is the award-winning editor of Wilton Magazine, . See more…
Natasha Herring
She inspires change through her multi-genre writing, compassionate advocacy, educational work and filmmaking. See more…
Karen Heuler
Her stories have appeared in over 100 literary and speculative magazines and anthologies. See more…
Sherri Van Houten
A retired professor of philosophy and world religions, she has published three books, most recently Saints, Sinners, And Other Entities... See more…
Phil Klay
He won the National Book Award for his short-story collection “Redeployment” based upon his experiences in Iraq. See more…
Alexia LaFortune
LaFortune is devoted to the transformative power of the creative arts. With an MA, in Developmental Clinical Psychology, MARI, FAMI, she is a therapist, writing coach and screenwriter…. See more…
John Leland
A reporter at The New York Times, who wrote a yearlong series that became the basis for New York Times Best Seller Happiness Is a Choice You Make. See more…
Robert Levine
Founded a NYC law firm specializing in intellectual property. He also has acted as a literary agent, and produced the film “That Championship Season,” with Robert Mitchum. See more…
Suzanne Braun Levine
The first editor of Ms. Magazine. She writes extensively about women in mid-life. See more…
Lillian Longendorfer
A retired pathologist and laboratory director, her first novel The Quad Consortium and the Sword of Bale was published in 2015. See more…
Julie Maloney
Julie is the author of A Matter of Chance, published in 2018 (She Writes Press). She is the founder/director of “Women Reading Aloud”, a non-profit international organization devoted to promoting women writers… See more…
Andrew Marotta
With the release of his first book, “The Principal: Surviving and Thriving”, Andrew is expanding his impact on the education leadership community. See more…
Carol McManus
Founder and managing partner of CKC Global Media, Carol uses her experience as a professional speaker, radio host, social media strategist and published author to help others . . See more…
U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo
A spoken word artist, poet, actor, singer, and an adjunct professor of English at Endicott College. See more…
Terri Muuss
A multi-career tour de force who balances a full-time social work gig with directing shows, writing books, speaking at conferences and colleges… See more…
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Went from being a judge on the New Jersey Superior Court to celebrity when he became senior judicial analyst for Fox News. See more…
Gennarose Nethercott
The author of The Lumberjack’s Dove, selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series. See more…
Dan Parent
Dan is co- creator of the hit series, Die Kitty Die, which was a huge Kickstarter success and is currently published by Chapterhouse Comics. See more…
Matt Pasca
His first book-length collection, A Thousand Doors (2011), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his second, Raven Wire (2016), was selected as a Finalist for the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award… See more…
Frank Pizzoli
His interviews have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Lambda Literary Review, Windy City Times. He is founding editor and publisher of Central Voice, an LGBT newspaper in…. See more…
Anna Raimondi
An intuitive and motivational speaker, she is also a radio host on Cox Radio Show called “Messages from Heaven.”. See more…
Mercurio D. Rivera
His short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and has been anthologized in 2017’s Year’s Best SF, 34th ed. by Gardner Dozois. See more…
Admiral Joseph Sestak
Served in the U.S. Navy for over 30 years and rose to the rank of three-star general, served as the Director of Defense on the National Security Council under President Clinton. See more…
Chandler Klang Smith
MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and has serve twice as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards. She has worked in book publishing and as a ghost writer,on. See more…
Sean Strub
Mayor of Milford, Pa., activist and author of Body Counts, A Memoir of Activism, Sex and Survival… See more…
Tim Teeman
A multi-award winning Senior Editor and Writer at the Daily Beast, overseeing the site’s arts, culture, LGBT, style, and media coverage. See more…
Kate Thomsen
Parenting Preteens with a Purpose (Search Institute), offers parents specific tips and strategies for building assets in their children. See more…
Lucian Truscott IV
Attended West Point and wrote the acclaimed novel “Dress Grey” about his time there. He has written extensively about the military and was a columnist for the Village Voice.. See more…
A.H. Verge
Local author AH Verge (Nightmare in the Woods) the summer his family met Bigfoot and (The Little Englishman) the true story of his great, great grandfather’s perilous journey as a young boy in the 1850s. See more….
Eleanor Wagner
She writes for children and teenagers. Jeanie Beane Meets Mavis the Camel, set to be published this year. Eleanor’s first novel, Dream a Little Dream, was published in 2015… See more…
Brooke Warner
Publisher of She Writes Press. For eight years she was the Executive Editor at Seal Press, where she shepherded hundreds of books through the publication process. See more…
Nancy Orlen Weber
A psychic, medium, medical intuitive, animal communicator, healer, minister … See more…
Chris Weyant
A cartoonist for The New Yorker. His cartoons are in the permanent collection at The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. See more…
Judy White
Feature film screenwriter Judy White, Lies I Told My Little Sister, is also
author/photographer of the award-winning books, Taylor’s Guide to Orchids and Bloom-Again Orchids, and was an editor-in-chief for Time Life…..See more…
Ruby Lynn Willis
A writer, storyteller, and performance artist who has a unique storytelling style that she has developed since her earliest days of performing in clubs and venues found in NYC’s Greenwich Village …. See more…
Barbara Zappile
Barbara is a English teacher, a writing professor, and a former school administrator. She serves as Pike Artworks’ Secretary, and runs the children’s events at the festival…. See more…