NH Book Festival: Co-Authors

Co-Authors: Two Pens are Better than One will be held on the KidLit Stage in the NH Book Festival Village on South Main Street, beginning at 3:40pm on Saturday, 10/5/2024. It will be moderated by Kari Allen and will feature: 

Photo by Mark Mattos

Terry Farish is the author of The Good Braider (YALSA and SLJ Best Book for Young Adults), Either the Beginning or the End of the World (Maine Literary Award) and A Feast for Joseph (with OD Bonny and illustrated by Ken Daley). About The Good Braider, Naomi Shihab Nye writes, “Terry Farish creates a masterful triumph of character and story.” Terry lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Lochan Sharma was born in Nepal. His family was registered at Timai refugee camp after they were exiled from Bhutan. Lochan and his family moved to the US in 2009 and now live in Concord, New Hampshire. He is a student at Keene State College. Go Home, co-authored by Terry Farish, is his first book.

Donna Gephart's award-winning middle grade novels include: Abby, Tried and True, The Paris Project, In Your Shoes, Lily and Dunkin, Death by Toilet Paper, How to Survive Middle School and others from Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster. Welcome to the Woofmore is a fun, new early chapter book series--cowritten with Lori Haskins Houran--about a posh dog hotel run by dogs for dogs with a new VIP (Very Important Pooch) appearing in each book. Go Be Wonderful is Donna's first picture book about being perfectly imperfect. She's a popular speaker at schools, conferences and book festivals. Donna lives in South Jersey with her family and her canine office assistant, Benji, a sweet retriever mix and she works for an independent bookstore.

Lori Haskins Houran is a former children's book editor and the author of more than fifty books for kids, including Next to You, a School Library Journal Best Picture Book, and the Kirkus-starred Button Your Buttons. She is also the co-author with Donna Gephart of Welcome to the Woofmore, which Publishers Weekly calls “howlingly good.” Lori lives with the two best pooches on the planet—oh, and some pretty nice humans, too—on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

 The NH Book Festival begins tomorrow!