NH Book Festival: Epics, Quests, and Magic

This panel will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts and begins at 3:40pm on Saturday, 10/5/2024. It will be moderated by Jocelyn Winn and will feature:

Photo by Janna Giacoppo

Mark Cecil is an author, journalist and host of The Thoughtful Bro show, for which he conducts author interviews with an eclectic roster of award winning and bestselling writers. He has written for LitHub, Writer’s Digest, Cognoscenti, The Millions, Reuters and Embark Literary Journal, among other publications. He is Head of Strategy for A Mighty Blaze and he has taught writing at Grub Street and The Writers Loft. His debut novel Bunyan and Henry, or, The Beautiful Destiny is out now from Pantheon Books.

Ann Dávila Cardinal is a Vermont-based author with an MFA in Writing from VCFA. Her young adult novels include Five Midnights, Category Five, Breakup from Hell, and You’ve Awoken Her, a horror comedy coming from HarperTeen in summer 2025. Her middle-grade debut, a biography of Latin trap artist Bad Bunny, comes out September 3, 2024 from Macmillan. The Storyteller’s Death, her first novel for adults, released in October 2022 and won gold in the International Latino Book Awards. Her next adult novel, We Need No Wings, is coming from Sourcebooks on September 10, 2024. Ann is also a part-time bookseller in Stowe, Vermont, and lives in Morrisville with her husband Doug in a little old farmhouse with a creepy basement.

Lyra Selene was born under a full moon and has never quite managed to wipe the moonlight out of her eyes. She grew up on a steady diet of mythology, folklore, and fantasy, and now writes tall tales of twisted magic, forbidden romance, and brooding landscapes. Lyra lives in New England with her husband and daughter, in an antique farmhouse that probably isn’t haunted. She is the author of the young adult duology Amber & Dusk. A Feather So Black is her adult debut.

M. T. Anderson is the author of Feed, a National Book Award Finalist, and he lives near Boston, Massachusetts. Nicked is his raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut. Based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a long-dead saint this is a fantastical, genre-defying, and delightfully queer historical romp.

 The NH Book Festival begins in 2 Days!