NHBF Author: Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Nora Shalaway Carpenter is the award-winning author of the novels Fault Lines and The Edge of Anything, the picture book Yoga Frog, and contributing editor of four anthologies, including her newest: ONWARD: 16 Climate Fiction Short Stories to Inspire Hope. Her fiction has been named to NPR’s and Kirkus Reviews' Best of the Year lists, praised in the New York Times and People, and won the Green Earth Book Award, the Whippoorwill Award, and the Nautilus Book Award. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches at Boyds Mills' (formerly the Highlights Foundation) Whole Novel Workshop. Shalaway Carpenter also works as a voice actor and serves on the executive team of Kindling Words. She lives with her family in the mountains of North Carolina.

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.