NHBF Author: Nick Lund

Nick Lund is a nature writer who works for Maine Audubon. His writing on birds and nature has appeared in Audubon magazine, National Parks magazine, Slate.com, the Washington Post, the Maine Sportsman, the Portland Phoenix, Down East magazine, and others, as well as the Birdist blog. He is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law and worked in federal energy policy in Washington, DC, before returning to Maine with his wife and son.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026. 

NHBF Author: Michael Lowenthal

Michael Lowenthal is the author of a story collection, Sex with Strangers, and four novels: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl (a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” and a Washington Post “Top Fiction of 2007” pick), and The Paternity Test (an Indie Next selection and a Lambda Literary Award finalist). His shorter work has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, The New York Times Magazine, Guernica, The Southern Review, and many anthologies. The recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Mass Cultural Council, he has taught creative writing at Boston College and Hampshire College, and as the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at Leipzig University in Germany. For more than twenty years he was a faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. Lowenthal’s most recent book is a memoir-in-essays, Place Envy, published in February 2026. He lives in Boston and Pittsburgh.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.

NHBF Author: Cait Levin

Cait Levin is an innovative educator and award-winning author. Kirkus called her debut novel Imposter, “an inspiring, unapologetically feminist takedown of misogyny in STEM culture.” Cait earned a BA from Barnard College and an MA from Middlebury College. When she isn’t looking for ways to help folks learn and build confidence, she likes to read, cook, play video games, and write fiction.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026. 

NHBF Author: Rajani LaRocca

Rajani LaRocca was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in Massachusetts, where she practices medicine and writes award-winning books for young readers, including the Newbery Honor–winning novel in verse, Red, White, and Whole. She’s always been an omnivorous reader, and now she is an omnivorous writer of novels and picture books, fiction and nonfiction, in prose and poetry. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, she lives outside Boston with her family.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.

NHBF Author: Andrew Krivak

Andrew Krivak is an award-winning writer whose books include Mule Boy; The Bear, a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read selection; and the freestanding novels of the Dardan Trilogy: The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and Like the Appearance of Horses, a Library Journal “Best Book of the Year” and Indie Next List for Reading Groups selection. He is a discussion facilitator with the Family Connections Center, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, and visiting lecturer on English at Harvard University. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026. 

NHBF Author: Lee Kelly

Lee Kelly is the author of the acclaimed speculative fiction novels City of Savages, A Criminal Magic, and With Regrets. With Jennifer Thorne, she is also the co-author of The Antiquity Affair, The Starlets, My Fair Frauds, and The Midnight Show. Lee’s short fiction and essays have appeared in a variety of publications, and she holds her MFA degree from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. An entertainment lawyer by trade, Lee has practiced law in Los Angeles and New York. She lives with her husband and two children outside Philadelphia, where you’ll find them engaged in one adventure or another.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.

Book of the Week (9/14/2026)

Noble Reckoning: An Emma Noble Thriller by Andrew Bridgeman (Mission Point Press, 2026)

A dead man sends Emma Noble a text: FIND NADIA.

Emma buried him only three weeks ago.

The message sends her searching for a teenage girl. Nadia knows the location of the terrorist behind the inauguration attacks. He evaded capture-vanished two years ago. And now, he's operational again.

But others are hunting the girl too. They need what's in her head. Whether she survives the interrogation isn't their concern. Somewhere in Florence, Nadia is running out of time.

Fired from the FBI, Emma has no badge and no backup.

And no idea there's a target on her back. -- Publisher's blurb

About the author:

Andrew Bridgeman is the internationally published author of the Emma Noble thriller series, with editions in Germany and Hungary. A former rugby player, jazz singer, and entrepreneur, he studied creative writing at Dickinson College and received a business degree from Washington University in St. Louis. Andrew lives in Ossipee, New Hampshire with his wife, Kathy. Beyond writing, his interests include hiking, music, and camping.

Join Andrew at Gibson's Bookstore on Tuesday, October 6, 2026 at 6:30 pm where he will be discussing his newest novel in the Emma Noble series!