Wordstock Festival 2012

Duff Brenna is the author of nine books, including The Book of Mamie, which won the AWP award for best novel; The Holy Book of the Beard, named “an underground classic” by the New York Times; Too Cool, a New York Times Noteworthy Book; The Altar of the Body, given the Editors Prize Favorite Book of the Year award from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and also received a San Diego Writers Association award for best novel 2002. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts...
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Susan Kerner was expecting her first child when she lost her husband and the love of her life to cancer, shortly after marrying him. Always by My Side, Susan’s first picture book, is inspired by her own experience. Susan lives in New York City with her daughter, Lily. A companion book, Mama's Right Here, is forthcoming from Star Bright Books.

Jerry McGill is a writer and artist. He received a BA in English literature from Fordham University in the Bronx and his MFA in education from Pacific University in Oregon. He lives in Portland, OR where he writes, paints, and someday plans to shoot a film.

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the debut novel Dora: A Headcase, and the memoir The Chronology of Water, both from Hawthorne Books. She has published three books of short stories and is the recipient of an Oregon Book Award 2012, a PNBA award 2012, and grants from both Poets and Writers and Literary Arts Inc. Her fiction, nonfiction, and critic fiction are widely anthologized and have appeared most recently in The Rumpus, The Sun, Ms., The Iowa Review, and Mother Jones. She teaches writing...
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