2023 Festival Authors

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…

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

Nina Schuyler’s short story collection, In this Ravishing World, won the W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections and The Prism Prize for Climate Literature, will be published by Regal House Publishing in 2024.

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.

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.

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.

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.