2025 Living Writers
This fall, Living Writers features 11 life-changing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by 11 acclaimed writers. Everyone we've encountered in these books is hankering after something, whether it's community, connection, freedom, safety, education, beauty, happiness, transcendence, or something else.
We've compiled a list of events where you can hear from the authors of our selected books.
Living Writers: Rivers Solomon
Thu, Sep 4, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
Rivers Solomon is a writer and lecturer. Their home is in the realm of the imaginary, where Blackness, queerness, and disability become sites of insurgency. In addition to appearing on the...
Living Writers: TJ Klune
Thu, Sep 11, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
TJ Klune is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Extraordinaries, and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes...
Living Writers: Mosab Abu Toha
Thu, Sep 18, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist from Gaza. His first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the...
Living Writers: Jasmine Bailey, Matthew Cooperman, and Vivek Narayanan
Thu, Sep 25, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
Jasmine V. Bailey is the author of Alexandria, winner of the Central New York Book Award, Disappeared, and That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove, a translation of Silvina López Medin’s Esa sal en...
Living Writers: Marie-Helene Bertino
Thu, Oct 16, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novels Beautyland, Parakeet, and 2 a.m. at the Cat's Pajamas, and the short story collections Safe as Houses and Exit Zero. Beautyland was a National Book...
Living Writers: Emily Strasser
Thu, Oct 23, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
Emily Strasser is the author of Half-Life of a Secret, a deeply researched memoir which was awarded the 2024 Reed Environmental Writing Award, the 2024 Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for...
Living Writers: Jennifer Brice
Thu, Nov 6, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
Jennifer Brice is the author most recently of Another North, a collection of autobiographical essays. Her previous books include The Last Settlers, a work of documentary journalism, and Unlearning...
Living Writers: Kaveh Akbar
Thu, Nov 13, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
Kaveh Akbar is the author of Martyr!, a novel published by Knopf. His poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two...