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Bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott is revered for her suspense writing that explores the dark underbellies and competitive atmospheres of intimate, powerful, and vulnerable spaces traditionally reserved for women.Her most recent book, The Turnout, is a revelatory and mesmerizing new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio during an intense and … Continued

Gabriela Alemán was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received a PhD at Tulane University and holds a master’s degree in Latin American literature from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. She currently resides in Quito, Ecuador. Her literary honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006; membership in the Bogotá 39, a 2007 selection of the … Continued

Ace Atkins is the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of almost thirty novels. Atkins, a former SEC football player, started his career as a crime beat reporter in Florida before becoming a full-time novelist. Since then he’s written eleven books in the Quinn Colson series and several true crime novels based on infamous crooks and … Continued

Destiny O. Birdsong is the winner of this year’s Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing for fiction for her debut book,Nobody’s Magic. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, African American Review, and Catapult, among other publications. She has received the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Richard G. Peterson Poetry Prize. … Continued

In the mid-1990s, when Nic Brown was fresh out of high school, he was living his childhood dream as a rock and roll drummer. Signing a major label record deal, playing big shows, hitting the charts, giving interviews in Rolling Stone, appearing on The Tonight Show—what could be better for a young artist? But contrary … Continued