Elisa Albert is the author of the novels Human Blues, After Birth, and The Book of Dahlia, the story collection How This Night is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud's Blind Spot. Her fiction and essays have been widely published in many languages.

Eric Banks is a writer and editor and the director of the New York Insitute for the Humanities. A former senior editor of Artforum, Banks relaunched Bookforumin 2003 and served as the publication’s editor in chief until 2008.

Julia Bartz is the New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat, a practicing therapist, and a creative coach.

Robert Boyers is editor of Salmagundi, professor of English at Skidmore College, and director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute.

Amber L. Bradbury is a mother of three with fond memories of her own mother and grandmothers.

Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) is an acclaimed children’s book author, poet, novelist, and storyteller, as well as a scholar of Native American culture.

Michael Burns is a writer from Upstate NY. Nervous Rex was inspired by his daughter who asked him one day to sit down and draw with her. Michael's first book centers around mental health and coping strategies for children and of course dinosaurs!

Ann Dávila Cardinal (she/her) is the Nuyorican, Vermont-based novelist of the magical realism novel The Storyteller’s Death and the forthcoming We Need No Wings (2024), as well as the young adult novels Five Midnights, Category Five, and Breakup from Hell.

Roz Chast’s work has appeared in numerous magazines through the years, including The Village Voice, National Lampoon, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, Redbook and Mother Jones, but she is most closely associated with The New Yorker.

Lyndall Clipstone is the author of eerily vivid (Marissa Meyer, internationally bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles), bloodied but gorgeous (Victoria Mier, bookseller at The Spiral Bookcase) gothic romance, with prose that reads like a hypnotic incantation (Kirkus).

Marc C. Conner became the eighth president of Skidmore College on July 1, 2020. An innovative leader...

Armando Lucas Correa is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and the recipient of several awards from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and the Society of Professional Journalism.

Jennifer Croll is the author of seven books on fashion, culture, and cocktails: Buzzworthy (2023), Dressed to Swill (2022), Art Boozel (2021), Free the Tipple (2018), Bad Girls of Fashion (2016), Bad Boys of Fashion (2019), and Fashion That Changed the World (2014).

Kerry D’Agostino (she/hers) is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. She represents literary and upmarket fiction, and her authors include novelists Erin E. Adams, Andrea Bobotis, Ethan Chatagnier, Leesa Cross-Smith, Nancy Wayson Dinan, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, and Liza Wieland, among others.

Julie C. Dao is the critically acclaimed author of many books for teens and children including Forest of a Thousand Lanternsand Broken Wish.

Lawrence Dudley's novels New York Station and its sequel The Hungry Blade were published by Blackstone Publishing in hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook download, and boxed audiobook set. 

Jennifer Dugan is a writer, a geek and a romantic, who loves writing stories about messy, complicated women and girls. Her debut novel, Hot Dog Girl, was called a “great fizzy rom-com” by Entertainment Weekly and “one of the best reads of the year, hands down” by Paste Magazine, although she is best known for Some Girls Do, her third young adult novel that took Tiktok by storm.

Maxwell Eaton III is a highly tolerated author and illustrator of numerous books for children, including his The Truth About Your Favorite Animals series, which includes entries on dolphins, elephants, crocodiles, and more.

Jennifer Fawcett grew up in rural Eastern Ontario and spent many years in Canada making theatre before coming to the United States. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop.

Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Michael Joseph and Louise Nada Blackford Sidlosky. Forché earned a bacherlor's degree in Creative Writing at Michigan State University in 1972, and Master of Fine Arts at Bowling Green State University in 1975.

Javier Fuentes is a Spanish American writer, a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow, who earned an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University where he was a teaching fellow.

Saratoga-based independent scholar, freelance writer and Adirondack historian Amy Godine met novelist Steve Stern over lunch at the late great Mother Goldsmith's Restaurant on Phila Street in 1987.

Winston Grady-Willis is professor and founding director of Black Studies at Skidmore College. Most recently, he was inaugural director of the School of Gender, Race and Nations at Portland State University...

Ana Maria is a Cuban American actress, writer, director and producer. She studied Film and Creative Writing at The New School and received her MFA in Fiction at Hunter College under the tutelage of Peter Carey and Colum McCann.

Jennifer's experience as a technical writer and college writing instructor gave her the experience to transition into proofreader, editor, and author. Since 2014, she has run Edit Your Docs, a freelance proofreading and editing service.

Emma Kress is an author and educator living with her family in Saratoga Springs, NY. DANGEROUS PLAY is her debut novel.

Leslie Lehr explores the duality of today’s women to navigate a new path between sexy and sacred. Salma Hayek is developing Leslie’s critically acclaimed new memoir, A Boob’s Life, into a comedy series for HBO Max.

Karin Lin-Greenberg is a Chinese American, award-winning writer whose debut collection, Faulty Predictions, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and won gold in Foreword Reviews’s INDIE Award in the Short Story category.

Donna Liquori is a freelance journalist and editor. Since 2006, she has written the Albany Times Union Bibliofiles column, which explores the culture of reading.

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa was born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York City. She is a product of the Puerto Rican communities on the island and in the South Bronx. As a child she was sent to live with her grandparents in Puerto Rico...

Silvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and lives in the Hudson Valley. She has published five books of poetry including La noche de los bueyes (Loewe Foundation International Young Poetry Prize), 62 brazadas (City of Buenos Aires Poetry Prize)...

Ira Marcks is a cartoonist living in Upstate New York with his wife, two cats, a dog, and lots of books he’s been meaning to read.

Patricia Marx, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1989. She is a former writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “Rugrats” and is the author of several books

Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including the best sellers Falter, Deep Economy, and The End of Nature, which was the first book to warn the general public about the climate crisis.

Jodé is a life long resident of Poughkeepsie, New York, which serves as the setting for her crime fiction. In her writing, she draws upon her many years as an attorney to capture the tensions that arise when a small community is rocked by tragedy.

Richard Mirabella is a writer and civil servant living in upstate New York.

Ed Mitzen is an unusual success story in the marketing world. Over the past 25 years, Ed has started three healthcare marketing firms – consisting of two health and wellness advertising agencies and one healthcare marketing consulting group – whose combined revenues are north of half a billion dollars.

An expert in the field of website design, Beth Moeller founded ARTS SPARK as a division of her website development and digital marketing company, IMC Interactive Media Consulting, LLC.

Katherine C. Mooney is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States. She holds degrees from Amherst College and Yale University.

Cleyvis Natera was born in the Dominican Republic, migrated to the United States at ten years old, and grew up in New York City. She holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MFA from New York University.

Trevor Oakley is the Head of Access and Outreach Services at the Saratoga Springs Public Library.

Rich is an Emmy nominated and Golden Earphone Award winning actor and voiceover artist. He’s appeared Off Broadway and regionally

Eric Orner is a former Congressional aide to Barney Frank and the acclaimed author of The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, one of the country’s first and longest-running gay comic strips.

Meghan O'Rourke is a writer, poet, and editor. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022); the bestselling memoir The Long Goodbye (2011)...

Rachel Person is the director of events for Northshire Bookstore, and has planned events at Northshire's Saratoga location since the store opened in 2013.

Tom Piazza is celebrated as a novelist and a writer on American music. His twelve books include the novels The Auburn Conferenceand City Of Refuge, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, and the essay collection Devil Sent The Rain.

One of Jael’s strengths as a yoga teacher is her ability to explain complicated concepts in a thorough and understandable way. She approaches each class with awareness and sensitivity...

Molly Prentiss is the author of Old Flame and Tuesday Nights in 1980, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and shortlisted for the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine in France.

Laurie Rabinowitz, EdD, MSEd, MA, is an Assistant Professor of Education Studies at Skidmore College. Prior to working at Skidmore, she was a faculty member in Literacy and Reading at Bank Street College of Education.

Ana Reyes has an MFA from Louisiana State University. Her work has appeared in Bodega, Pear Noir, The New Delta Review, and elsewhere.

Jack Rightmyer is a freelance arts writer who has published two books A Funny Thing About Teaching and It’s Not About Winning.

Jonathan Santlofer is an author and artist. He is the author of the memoir The Widower’s Notebook, the international bestselling novel, The Death Artist, as well as...

John Sayles is a much-celebrated film director who has made 18 movies, beginning in 1980 when his debut Return of the Secaucus Seven was released.

Edward Schwarzschild is the author of In Security. His previous books are Responsible Men and The Family Diamond. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The Believer, The Washington Post, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Journal of Criticism, and elsewhere.

Steve Sheinkin is the acclaimed author of fast-paced, cinematic nonfiction histories, including Fallout, Undefeated, Born to Fly, The Port Chicago 50, and Bomb.

Todd Shimkus is the President of the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce, a leadership role he has held since 2010.

STEVE STERN's fiction, with its deep grounding in Yiddish folklore, has prompted critics such as Cynthia Ozick to hail him as the successor to Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Abby Tegnelia is the CEO of Empire Media Network, the publisher of Saratoga Living—the premier lifestyle magazine in Saratoga Springs.

Julia Park Tracey’s newest novel THE BEREAVED, is about a widowed mother whose children are sent out on the Orphan Train during the Civil War, and how she tries to get them back again. The novel is based on the true story of the author’s third great-grandmother.

Paul Tremblayis the nationally bestselling author of Survivor Song, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World which was adapted into the film Knock at the Cabin, and more.

Kim van Alkemade is the New York Times bestselling author of the historical novels Counting Lost Stars,Orphan #8 and Bachelor Girl.

Chris Wait graduated from Vassar College with a degree in English Literature in 2006. He grew up in Saratoga Springs, and has lived and worked in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Mexico City, Istanbul, and New York, and has been working at New Directions, where he is Director of Subrights and Permissions, and Associate Editor, since 2014.

MITCHELL WATERS joined Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents in 2019, having previously worked at Curtis Brown for twenty-four years. He represents a diverse list of authors of fiction and non-fiction for adult and young adult markets.

Matt Witten is a TV writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who has written for many TV shows including House, Pretty Little Liars, CSI: Miami, and Law & Order.