NH Book Festival: Debuts

This panel will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts and begins at 10:20am on Saturday, 10/5/2024. It will be moderated by David Moloney and will feature:

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Kayla Min Andrews lives in New Orleans. She has a piece forthcoming from The Massachusetts Review and has been published in Cagibi for fiction, Halfway Down the Stairs for nonfiction, and Asymptote for literary translation. Her work was nominated for a Best of the Net 2020. She was a finalist in the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival's Very Short Fiction Contest in 2023. Kayla is the daughter of Katherine Min, and assisted Putnam on the posthumous publication of her mother's novel The Fetishist (January 2024), including editing the manuscript. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at Randolph and is working on a novel. 

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Joseph Earl Thomas is the author of Sink, a memoir, the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, and the short story collection Leviathan Beach (Grand Central, 2025). His prose, poetry, and criticism has been published or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Dilettante Army, The Paris Review and The New York Times Book Review. Joseph teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and courses in Black Studies, Poetics, Video Games, Queer Theory and more at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

Alina Grabowski grew up in coastal Massachusetts and holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University. Her writing has appeared in Story, The Masters Review, Joyland, The Adroit Journal, and Day One. She has received scholarships from Aspen Summer Words, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. She lives in Austin, Texas. 

Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer and a theatre critic at The New Yorker. His essays, reviews, and profiles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, FADER, Vulture, The Awl, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Commonweal. In 2020, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his profile of the comedian Tracy Morgan. A former White House staffer, he now teaches in the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City. His debut novel, Great Expectations, was released in March 2024 by Hogarth Books.

The NH Book Festival begins in 17 Days!