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Constance Bailey
Constance Bailey
Get It While It's Hot: Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

Kelly J. Baptist
Kelly J. Baptist
Eb & Flow

Kelly J. Baptist is the award-winning author of eight children’s books, including...<more>

Monica Patrice Barra
Monica Patrice Barra
Good Sediment: Black Ecologies and the Politics of Restoration in Coastal Louisiana

Monica Patrice Barra is a cultural anthropologist with an interdisciplinary background in cultural...<more>

Bob Becker
Bob Becker
Going South: Stories and Thoughts from a Northerner's Career as a Southerner

Dr. Robert Becker was the Chief Executive Officer of New Orleans City Park...<more>

Julie Gerdes Becnel
Julie Gerdes Becnel
Roux's First Day

Julie Gerdes Becnel has always been enchanted by the myths and tales...<more>

Jack B. Bedell
Jack B. Bedell
Fight Nights: Flash Essays

Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern...<more>

Jack B. Bedell
Jack B. Bedell
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern...<more>

Steve Beisner
Steve Beisner
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

Originally from Pointe Coupee Parish, Steve Beisner is a computer science...<more>

Richard Bell
Richard Bell
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

Richard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His books have...<more>

Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller
Degas at the Gas Station: Essays

Thomas Beller is a Guggenheim Fellow and Professor and Director of...<more>

Katie Benner
Katie Benner
Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

Artie Bennett
Artie Bennett
The Tenth Man: A Miracle of Jewish Faith and Friendship in New Orleans

Artie Bennett is delighted to share The Tenth Man, his moving new nonfiction picture...<more>

Tadgh Bentley
Tadgh Bentley
One Chicken Nugget

Tadgh Bentley is an award-winning children’s author and illustrator whose books...<more>

Tadgh Bentley
Tadgh Bentley
Incredibly Fast and Not at All Fun

Tadgh Bentley is an award-winning children’s author and illustrator whose books...<more>

Ryan U. Bernard
Ryan U. Bernard
The Bernards of Louisiana: An Acadian Family History

A native of South Louisiana, Ryan U. Bernard is a former journalist with freelance...<more>

Johnnie Bernhard
Johnnie Bernhard
The Witch of Sonora

Johnnie Bernhard is a traditionally published author of five novels. Her work...<more>

Jason Berry
Jason Berry
Conversations with Jason Berry

New Orleans investigative reporter and author Jason Berry gained national...<more>

Jordan Biggs
Jordan Biggs
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

Jordan Biggs is a Gen Z, south Louisiana-based poet native to...<more>

Scott Billington
Scott Billington
Irma Thomas: Soul Queen of New Orleans

Scott Billington is a musician, author, and multi-Grammy-winning music...<more>

Wes Blake
Wes Blake
Pineville Trace

Wes Blake is the award-winning author of Pineville Trace and...<more>

Ashlyn Blanchard
Ashlyn Blanchard
Dinos Down South ABC

Attorney by day, writer by night, and mom around the clock,...<more>

Joe Bond
Joe Bond
Hope House: A Novel

Joe Bond began working on Hope House after his story...<more>

Toya Boudy
Toya Boudy
Cooking from Scratch: A Careful Selection of Useful Recipes

Chef Toya Boudy, the author of Cooking for the Culture, has appeared on...<more>

Darrell Bourque
Darrell Bourque
Pont d'Amour: Love Songs for Anna Akhmatova -- FORTHCOMING

Former Louisiana Poet Laureate, Darrell Bourque is the recipient of the Louisiana...<more>

Frank Brigtsen
Frank Brigtsen
Color of Flavor: Recipes and Recollections from a Creole Chef

Frank Brigtsen is the chef/owner of Brigtsen’s Restaurant in New Orleans...<more>

Catharine Savage Brosman
Catharine Savage Brosman
Fire in the Mind: Poems New and Selected

Catharine Savage Brosman, professor emerita of French at Tulane University, is prominent...<more>

Amena Brown
Amena Brown
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays

Amena Brown is a spoken-word poet and performing artist whose work...<more>

Taylor Brown
Taylor Brown
Wolvers: A Novel

Taylor Brown is the author of In the Season of Blood and Gold...<more>

Ellen Byron
Ellen Byron
A Murderer's Guide to Mardi Gras: A Vintage Cookbook Mystery

Ellen Byron is a bestselling author, Anthony nominee, and recipient of...<more>

Ellen Byron
Ellen Byron
Crescent City Christmas Chaos: A Vintage Cookbook Mystery

Ellen Byron is a bestselling author, Anthony nominee, and recipient of...<more>

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A.J. Cade
A.J. Cade
Death or Victory: The Louisiana Native Guards & the Black Military's Significance in the Civil War

A.J. Cade is a retired United States Marine and executive council...<more>

Emily Carpenter
Emily Carpenter
A Spell for Saints and Sinners: A Novel

Emily Carpenter is the bestselling author of six suspense novels. As...<more>

Tracy Carr
Tracy Carr
Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist

Tracy Carr is a researcher, editor, and writer in Jackson, Mississippi...<more>

Christopher E. Cenac
Christopher E. Cenac
Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Legacies of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, Vol II: The Bowie Brothers and Bayou Buffalo (DuLarge)

Dr. Christopher Everette Cenac, Sr., F.A.C.S., was born at Naval Air Station...<more>

Dook Chase
Dook Chase
Dook Chase: A Chef's Journey

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

Jill Christman
Jill Christman
The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir

Jill Christman is the author of The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir...<more>

Addie E. Citchens
Addie E. Citchens
Dominion: A Novel

Clarksdale, Mississippi, native Addie E. Citchens, lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. A Jackson...<more>

T. Clark
T. Clark
All This Want (and I Can't Get None)

T. Clark, from Westchester County, New York, holds BAs from Rutgers...<more>

Taylor Clement
Taylor Clement
do not destroy this: Poems

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

Peter Cooley
Peter Cooley
Little Everlastings -- FORTHCOMING

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

Lindsey "Bones" Cordero
Lindsey "Bones" Cordero
The Great Truffle Snuffle: The (Mostly) True Story of Peri and Tubs

Lindsay “Bones” Cordero is a picture book author, illustrator, U.S. Air...<more>

Chase Cormier
Chase Cormier
Boucherie

Chase Cormier is a literary activist from Lafayette, Louisiana. His book...<more>

Sheryl Cornett
Sheryl Cornett
No Secrets in This House: A Novel

Sheryl Cornett taught English and Creative Writing at NC State University...<more>

Emily Cosper
Emily Cosper
Witness Before the Fall

Emily Cosper lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she has made...<more>

Spring Council
Spring Council
Southern Roots: Recipes and Stories from Mama Dip's Daughter

Southern Foodways Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Anita Spring Council is...<more>

Pamela Courtney
Pamela Courtney
Freedom's Eve: A Story of Watch Night

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

Peter Cozzens
Peter Cozzens
Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West

Peter Cozzens is a retired Foreign Service Officer and the best-selling,...<more>

Andy Crawford
Andy Crawford
Into the Lost World: A Journey into Louisiana's Bayou Country

Andy Crawford is a South Louisiana-based landscape photographer whose goal...<more>

Julie Cruse
Julie Cruse
The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education

Julie Cruse is the founder and investigative survivor behind AcademicAbuse.com...<more>

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Melissa Daggett
Melissa Daggett
Eugène and Eulalie: A Family Saga of Love, Race, and Property in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

Melissa Daggett holds a BA from Louisiana State University in Political Science...<more>

Toby Daspit
Toby Daspit
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

Toby Daspit teaches in the Education Department at the University of Louisiana...<more>

Matthew Davis
Matthew Davis
A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore

Matthew Davis is the author of A Biography of a Mountain: The...<more>

Rod Davis
Rod Davis
Life in the Time of Hurricanes

Rod Davis is the author of The Life of Kim and the Behavior...<more>

Cassandra de Alba
Cassandra de Alba
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Cassandra de Alba is a poet and researcher living in Massachusetts. Her...<more>

Callie Dean
Callie Dean
Marvelous Mistakes: Accidents That Made History

Callie Dean lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, with her husband and three sons...<more>

Adam Dennis
Adam Dennis
The Boy from the Swamp

Adam Dennis lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned his...<more>

Channelle Desamours
Channelle Desamours
They Call Her Regret

Channelle Desamours is a high school science teacher from Atlanta, Georgia...<more>

Victoria Dillon
Victoria Dillon
Ava: A Novel

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

Johnette Downing
Johnette Downing
Irma Thomas: Soul Queen of New Orleans

Recipient of the 2017 Louisiana Writer Award, Johnette Downing is a musician...<more>

Johnette Downing
Johnette Downing
New England Animals A to Z

Recipient of the 2017 Louisiana Writer Award, Johnette Downing is a musician...<more>

Lindsey Duga
Lindsey Duga
Royal Liars

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

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Denise Gallagher
Denise Gallagher
How to Calm a Rain Bull: And Other Stories of the Changing Seasons from Around the World

Denise Gallagher is a children’s author and illustrator. She is...<more>

John Gery
John Gery
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

John Gery’s seven poetry collections include The Enemies of Leisure...<more>

Megan Giddings
Megan Giddings
Black Arts: Stories

Megan Giddings is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota...<more>

Susan Gregg Gilmore
Susan Gregg Gilmore
The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush

Susan Gregg Gilmore is the author of the novels Looking for Salvation...<more>

Charnaie Gordon
Charnaie Gordon
Heroic Heart: An Illustrated Biography of Joe Delaney

Charnaie Gordon is a diversity and inclusion advocate, author, teacher,...<more>

Philip Gould
Philip Gould
Louisiana from the Sky

Philip Gould is a documentary/architecture photographer born in Massachusetts...<more>

Roberta Brandes Gratz
Roberta Brandes Gratz
Fearless Philanthropy: Edith Rosenwald Stern's Campaigns to Transform Lives in New Orleans

Roberta Brandes Gratz is an award-winning journalist, urban critic, lecturer...<more>

Jason G. Green
Jason G. Green
Too Precious to Lose: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility

Jason G. Green is a Maryland-born community organizer, attorney, and...<more>

Stuart P. Green
Stuart P. Green
The Rebbe of Baton Rouge

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

James P. Gregory, Jr.
James P. Gregory, Jr.
Vaudeville's Wildflower: The Many Lives of Cora Youngblood Corson

James P. Gregory Jr. is the director of the William A. Brookshire LSU Military...<more>

Laura Guccione
Laura Guccione
St. Joseph's Day in New Orleans

Lifelong New Orleanian Laura Guccione holds degrees in anthropology, urban studies...<more>

Sarah Guillory
Sarah Guillory
A Wish with Wings

Sarah Guillory is the author of middle grade novels A...<more>

Robert Gwaltney
Robert Gwaltney
Sing Down the Moon: A Novel

Robert Gwaltney, a recipient of the 2022 Pat Conroy Writers Residence...<more>

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Robin Ha
Robin Ha
Instant Noodles & Beyond: A Comic Book with Recipes for Souped-Up Ramen, Mac & Cheese, and More

Robin Ha is the award-winning author and illustrator of the graphic novel...<more>

Benjamin Hale
Benjamin Hale
Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks

Benjamin Hale is the author of the novel The Evolution of...<more>

Madi Hannan
Madi Hannan
Where Y'at, Jockamo?

Madi Hannan is a New Orleans native, artist, author, illustrator, and science...<more>

Ashley Mace Havird
Ashley Mace Havird
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

Ashley Mace Havird has published four poetry collections, including Wild Juice...<more>

David Havird
David Havird
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

David Havird is the author mostly recently of Weathering, published...<more>

Joshua Hebert
Joshua Hebert
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Bio will be posted when availalbe...<more>

Leslie Helakoski
Leslie Helakoski
Fake Gnus

Leslie Helakoski is the author and sometimes illustrator of 17...<more>

Paige Hender
Paige Hender
Witch's Inheritance

Paige Hender is a graphic novelist inspired by the macabre...<more>

Paige Hender
Paige Hender
The Confessional: A Graphic Novel

Paige Hender is a graphic novelist inspired by the macabre...<more>

Greg Herren
Greg Herren
Hurricane Season Hustle: A Scotty Bradley Mystery

Greg Herren is a New Orleans-based author and editor of...<more>

Mary Hester
Mary Hester
Painting Grace

Mary Hester taught English and technical writing at Louisiana State...<more>

Roberta Whitman Hoff
Roberta Whitman Hoff
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

Originally from New England, Roberta Whitman Hoff now lives in New...<more>

Megan Holt
Megan Holt
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Dr. Megan Holt is Executive Director for One Book One New...<more>

Ashley N.  Hudson
Ashley N. Hudson
The Bridge

Ashley N. Hudson is an author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and professional stuntwoman...<more>

Howard Hunter
Howard Hunter
Conversations with Jason Berry

Howard Hunter is a New Orleans native. He has taught high school...<more>

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Corinne Martin
Corinne Martin
Louisiana Healing Garden: Medical Plants for a Sustainable Future

Corinne Martin is a clinical herbalist and amateur naturalist who has...<more>

James H. McCommons
James H. McCommons
The Feather Wars and the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds

James H. McCommons is a professor emeritus at Northern Michigan University and a...<more>

Karen C. McCord
Karen C. McCord
Only Rainbows: The Carley McCord Story

Karen C. McCord is the author of Only Rainbows, a moving memoir...<more>

Jack B. McGuire
Jack B. McGuire
Killing the Kingfish: The Huey Long Assassination

Jack B. McGuire spent over 40 years as an officer for Union...<more>

Sandy Langhart Michelet
Sandy Langhart Michelet
My Family Tree Stops With Me: A Guide to Purpose and Possibility

Sandy Langhart Michelet is a Louisiana author and speaker who empowers...<more>

Alexander Mikaberidze
Alexander Mikaberidze
The Louisiana Purchase: The Grand Bargain and the Making of America

Alexander Mikaberidze is the LSU Systems Boyd Professor of History...<more>

Jennifer Moorhead
Jennifer Moorhead
Watch Her Run: A Thriller

Jennifer Moorhead is the Amazon bestselling author of Broken Bayou and Poison...<more>

Frank Morelli
Frank Morelli
On the Way to Birdland

Frank Morelli is the author of the young adult novels, No Sad...<more>

Benjamin Morris
Benjamin Morris
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A native of Mississippi, Benjamin Morris is the author of...<more>

Bethany C. Morrow
Bethany C. Morrow
The Body: A Novel

Bethany C. Morrow is a national bestselling author writing for adult and...<more>

Robert Mugge
Robert Mugge
Quotes from the Road: The Wit and Wisdom of American Musicians

Filmmaker/author Robert Mugge has directed more than three dozen films,...<more>

Deya Muniz
Deya Muniz
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Deya Muniz was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they grew up watching...<more>

Sean F. Munro
Sean F. Munro
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

Sean F. Munro is a writing instructor at Delgado Community College and a...<more>

Frank Murphy
Frank Murphy
Heroic Heart: An Illustrated Biography of Joe Delaney

Frank Murphy is an award-winning children’s book author and...<more>

Frank Murphy
Frank Murphy
A Puppy Like Yours

Frank Murphy is an award-winning children’s book author and...<more>

Jennifer Murphy
Jennifer Murphy
The Ghost Women: A Novel

Jennifer Murphy holds an MFA in painting and art history from the University...<more>

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Vicki Salloum
Vicki Salloum
A Gathering Place

Vicki Salloum is a Mississippi native who has called New Orleans...<more>

Ben Sandmel
Ben Sandmel
Louisiana from the Sky

Bio to be posted when available...<more>

Cathy Schieffelin
Cathy Schieffelin
Snakeroot and Cohosh

Cathy Shieffelin is an avid reader and writer. A love of nature...<more>

Rachel Schneider
Rachel Schneider
Metal Slinger

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

Rachel Schneider
Rachel Schneider
Light Wielder

Bio will be posted when available...<more>

Bessie  Senette
Bessie Senette
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

Bessie Senette is the self-published author of Cutting the Clouds...<more>

Alon Shaya
Alon Shaya
Memories of a Good Meal: Recipes of Resilience Inspired by Stories of World War II Survival

Alon Shaya is a two-time James Beard Award-winning...<more>

T.L. Simpson
T.L. Simpson
Accelerant

Bio to be posted when available...<more>

Elise L. Smith
Elise L. Smith
Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970

Elise Smith, professor emerita at Millsaps College, received her PhD...<more>

John Warner Smith
John Warner Smith
Murders at Mer Rouge

John Warner Smith served as Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2021...<more>

Katy Simpson Smith
Katy Simpson Smith
The Maltese Version: A Novel

Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She...<more>

William Christy Smith
William Christy Smith
Skylark: A Novel

Bio to be posted when available...<more>

Stephanie Soileau
Stephanie Soileau
Should the Waters Take Us

Stephanie Soileau is the author of the critically acclaimed story collection Last One...<more>

Marielle Songy
Marielle Songy
Coffee Culture New Orleans

Marielle Songy is a food and culture writer from New Orleans...<more>

Carrie Lee South
Carrie Lee South
In the Woods They Wait: A Novel

Carrie Lee South earned her MFA at the Arkansas Writers Workshop...<more>

Elisa M. Speranza
Elisa M. Speranza
Triage: A Novel

Elisa M. Speranza (she/her) is a New Orleans-based author and...<more>

Michelle St. Romain
Michelle St. Romain
Song of Belonging: A Novel

Michelle St. Romain grew up in Louisiana and her work is...<more>

Marianne Rabalais Sulser
Marianne Rabalais Sulser
Like Snow Before Sun

Marianne Rabalais Sulser is a Louisiana native living in Colorado,...<more>

Daniel S.C.  Sutter
Daniel S.C. Sutter
Debris: Stories

Daniel S.C. Sutter is a 2025-27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University...<more>

Peggy Sweeney-McDonald
Peggy Sweeney-McDonald
Life in the A-Zone: How I Embraced the Journey with My Mother's Alzheimer's One Pink Cloud Moment at a Time

Peggy Sweeney-McDonald is a Louisiana author, speaker, actress, and podcast...<more>

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Dr. Sarah L. Webb
Dr. Sarah L. Webb
Colorism: The Politics of Skin Tone and How We Get Free

Dr. Sarah L. Webb is the founder of Colorism Healing, a global platform providing...<more>

Michael Weinberger
Michael Weinberger
On the Way to Birdland

Michael Weinberger is an actor, writer, and director from Katy,...<more>

Emily Welch
Emily Welch
Pelican Lake

Bio to be posted when avialable...<more>

Emma C. Wells
Emma C. Wells
We Already Dug the Grave: A Novel

Bio to be posted when available...<more>

Ken Wells
Ken Wells
Boudin

Ken Wells grew up on the bayous of South Louisiana, second of six...<more>

Lawrence Wells
Lawrence Wells
Backstory: A Literary Life on the Run

Lawrence Wells is the director of Yoknapatawpha Press in Oxford...<more>

Shannon Terry Wiley
Shannon Terry Wiley
Yellow September: A Novel

Shannon Terry Wiley is a Southern writer who spent over...<more>

Anastasia Magloire Williams
Anastasia Magloire Williams
Heroic Heart: An Illustrated Biography of Joe Delaney

Anastasia Magloire Williams is an award-winning illustrator-author with a lifelong...<more>

David Lyle Williams
David Lyle Williams
The Road to Cisterna: Darby's Rangers and Their Most Consequential Battle in World War II

David Lyle Williams is a former US Army officer (1967–1969). He has...<more>

Mary D. Williams
Mary D. Williams
Mahalia Jackson, Moving On Up a Little Higher: The Story of an American Civil Rights Pioneer

Mary D. Williams is a gospel singer, civil rights historian, and former...<more>

Judy Williamson
Judy Williamson
Paper Girl's World: Adventures of a Globetrotting Travel Writer in the 1980s

Judy Williamson spent the go-go 1980s circling the globe on...<more>

Robin Wilson
Robin Wilson
Combing Cotton: Transform Your Ancestry into Your Competitive Advantage

Robin Wilson is a 3x author, entrepreneur, and designer who...<more>

Rita Woods
Rita Woods
The Edge of Yesterday

Rita Woods is an award-winning author and physician whose ...<more>

Amos Jasper Wright IV
Amos Jasper Wright IV
The Battle of Danziger Bridge: A Novel

Amos Jasper Wright IV is from Alabama. His first short story...<more>

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