Hester Kaplan is an award-winning writer of story collections, novels, and the
memoir/biography, Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography, published in
2025 and longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her story collection, The Edge
of Marriage, received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and her work has been
widely published and anthologized, including in The Best American Short Stories series. She is a
recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Awards and was named a Quarry
Farm Fellow by the Center for Mark Twain Studies for Twice Born.
With over 30 years of teaching experience, Hester runs workshops and writing retreats, and
works with writers at all stages of development. Recent presentations and features include an
essay in Electric Lit, a talk on memoir and biography at the 2025 Boston Book Festival, and an
interview on NPR’s Here & Now. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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.
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