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Words, Wonder, Wisdom

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Words, Wonder, Wisdom 〰️

CELEBRATING BOOKS, READING, AND THE LITERARY ARTS

CONNECTING READERS OF ALL AGES WITH INSPIRING AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS

Festival Details

OUR BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY

Sunday September 27th finished out this year’s festival with a bang! Thanks so much to all of our volunteers, staff and especially our wonderful attendees! Thanks for being you!
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Saturday September 26th was an absolute blast! Don’t forget to use #HSFOTB with your photos!

Friday September 25th was filled with great conversations and even more laughs!
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Lily Brooks-Dalton is the author of the national bestseller The Light Pirate, which was the runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a #1 Indie Next title, and a New York Times Editors' Pick. Her previous novel, Good Morning, Midnight, inspired

Steven Weinberg is an author and artist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institute, as well as on the cover of Thomas McGuane’s Fly Fishing classic The Longest Silence and in Ji

@larskenseth is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in MAD, Esquire, and The New Yorker, as well as a television writer for shows on Adult Swim and Netflix. Call Me Moby is his debut as an author-illustrator; he also illustrated Space: The Final Poo

Scott Beal is the author of Stegosaurus Moon (Dzanc Books, 2026) and Wait 'Til You Have Real Problems (Dzanc Books, 2014), as well as the chapbook The Octopus (Gertrude Press, 2016). His poems have appeared in journals such as Rattle, Pleiades, Prair

Lillian Li is the author of the novels Bad Asians and Number One Chinese Restaurant, which was an NPR Best Book of 2018, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her work has been published in T

K.L. Walther is the bestselling author of The Summer of Broken Rules and While We’re Young. Born and raised in the rolling hills of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she is happiest when reading a romance on the beach or bantering with her better hal

Emma Steinkellner is an illustrator, writer, and cartoonist living in Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate of Stanford University and the illustrator of the Eisner-nominated comic Quince. She is the author and illustrator of The Okay Witch and

Heather Hansman is an award-winning freelance writer and the celebrated author of Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow and Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The At

@deborahmarcero is the author-illustrator of fifteen books for young people, including the #1 Indie Bestselling In a Jar, Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year, Out of a Jar, and her most recent title, The Great Escape. Her author-illustrator t

Jonathan Miles is the author of the novels Dear American Airlines and Want Not, both New York Times Notable Books, and the novel Anatomy of a Miracle. His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Th

Erin Stead is the illustrator of nine highly acclaimed picture books: the Caldecott Medal-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee; The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine; Music for Mister Moon; Tony; And Then It’s Spring; Bear Has a Story to Tell; Le

Philip Stead is the author of the Caldecott Medal-winning book A Sick Day for Amos McGee. He and his wife, illustrator Erin Stead, collaborated on Bear Has a Story to Tell, Lenny & Lucy, and The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine, based on a prev

Kalyn Josephson is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, sometimes-baker, and full-time consumer of too much tea. She lives on the California coast with two tiny black cats in a house in constant need of repair. She is the author of seve

Omar Hussain is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His debut novel, A Thousand Natural Shocks (Blackstone Publishing, 2025), was recently shortlisted for the Cabell First Novelist Award and named one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Thrillers

Kendra Langford Shaw holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and has had fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her stories have appeared in the Antioch Review, StoryQuarterly, and The Mid-American Review. Bor

Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including several volumes of poetry, novels, and translations. He is current

Ryan Effgen has had his works of fiction appear in Best New American Voices, Fiction Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. He has earned creative writing fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and George Mason University. R