NHBF Author: L. Annette Binder

L. Annette Binder was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States as a child. Her
short stories have appeared in the Pushcart and O. Henry Prize Anthologies and been
performed on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. 

Her story collection, Rise (Sarabande), received the Mary McCarthy Prize, and her novel, The Vanishing Sky (Bloomsbury), was a New York Times Book Review Selection for Summer. Her memoir, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven (Wandering Aengus Press), is about her mother’s struggle with dementia. It looks to mythology, poetry, science and history to try to find meaning and beauty as her mother’s cognition declines. Kirkus Reviews calls it “an illuminating and moving meditation on dementia.” 

Annette lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, 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 3-4, 2025.