2019 Festival Authors & Programs
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| Nicole Baart | Kwame Dawes | Ted Genoways | Tosca Lee | Kassandra Montag | Kimberly Stuart | Carson Vaughan |
Nicole Baart
Nicole Baart wants to live in a world filled with handwritten letters, New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, and great conversation. A critically acclaimed novelist,
Nicole’s work has been featured as a Midwest
Connections book pick, nominated for a Christy Award, and earned a starred and featured review from
Publishers Weekly. In 2011 she co-authored a
book that debuted at #4 on the New York Times bestseller list. Nicole is also the co-founder of a non-profit organization, One Body One Hope, that partners with a sisterhood of churches and
orphanages in Monrovia, Liberia. An adoption advocate and the mother of four children from four different countries, Nicole speaks on a variety of topics ranging from orphan care to parenthood
to books and the writing process
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Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and
essays. In 2016 his book, Speak from Here to There, a co-written
collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella appeared. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern University Press) published in 2017. He is Glenna Luschei Editor
of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program. He is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.
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Ted Genoways
Ted Genoways is the winner of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism. He is the author of five
books, including This Blessed Earth, winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Award, and The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate
of Our Food, a finalist for the 2015 James Beard Foundation
Award for Writing and Literature. His other honors include a National Press Club Award,
an Association of Food Journalists Award, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation.
He is a contributing editor at Mother Jones, The New Republic, and Pacific Standard. For nine years, he was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review,
during which time the magazine won six National Magazine Awards. He lives outside Lincoln, Nebraska, with the photographer Mary Anne Andrei and their teenage son.
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Tosca Lee
Tosca Lee is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Between, The House of Bathory Duology (The Progeny, Firstborn), Iscariot, The
Legend of Sheba, Demon: A Memoir, Havah: The Story of Eve, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker.
A notorious night-owl, she loves watching TV, eating bacon, playing video games with her kids, and sending cheesy texts to her husband. You can find Tosca hanging around the snack table or wherever bacon is served.
A Single Light, Tosca’s highly-anticipated sequel to The Line Between, releases September 17 from Simon & Schuster.
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Kassandra Montag
Kassandra Montag is a poet and novelist. Her work has
appeared in Mystery Weekly Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, and Prairie Schooner, among other literary journals. She has won the Plainsongs Award, New Year's Poet Award, and 1877 Award.
Kassandra's first novel, After the Flood, will be published by William Morrow in September 2019.
She lives in Omaha, NE with her husband and two sons.
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Kimberly Stuart
Kimberly Stuart, in an effort to condone the time and money spent, would like you to know she holds degrees from St. Olaf College and the
University of Iowa.
She learned lots of interesting things at these fine institutions, none of which prepared her for the lethal cocktail of parenthood and writing. Stuart is the author of five published novels,
including the Heidi Elliott series, Act Two, Stretch Marks, Operation Bonnet,
Sugar, and a seventh, Heart Land set to released in 2018. She is a frequent public speaker
and is passionate about helping others live great stories.
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Carson Vaughan
Carson Vaughan is a freelance journalist from central Nebraska with a focus on the Great Plains. He’s also weirdly obsessed with cowboy poetry.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker (online), The Atlantic, The
Guardian, The Paris Review Daily, Outside, Pacific Standard,
VICE, In These Times, and more. Most recently, he was awarded the 2018 John M. Collier Award for Forest History Journalism from the Forest History Society for his Weather Channel feature,
“Uprooting FDR’s ‘Great Wall of Trees.’” He was also a recipient of a 2018 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council.
His first book, Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream, will be published via Little A in April 2019.
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