2026 Festival Authors

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2026 Featured Authors

Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez is the author of numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry...

Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, including his most recent The Amateur, as well as The Jackal’s Mistress...

Eric Idle

Comedian, actor, author and singer-songwriter, Eric Idle, comes to Saratoga for his new memoir, "Idle in Provence: A Brief History of Thyme."

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong has written nine books...

Cara Benson

Cara Benson's writing has been published in The New York Times, Boston Review, Orion Magazine, Sierra Magazine...

Paul Bogaards

Paul Bogaards has directed some of the most successful book campaigns of the modern era...

Clay McLeod Chapman

Clay McLeod Chapman is the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of popular horror novels...

Mai Corland

Mai Corland is a Korean American attorney and writer, born in Seoul and adopted into New York...

Lâle Davidson

Lâle Davidson’s novels Blue Woman Burning (2021), Against the Grain (2022), and Beyond Sight (2023) were published by Emperor Books.

Chandi Deitmer

Chandi Deitmer (she/her) is The Mind Company's Senior Puzzle Editor...

Nicolas DiDomizio

Nicolas DiDomizio is the USA Today bestselling author of A Murder Most Camp, Nearlywed...

Joe Donahue

Joe talks to people on the radio for a living...

Elizabeth Everett

Elizabeth Everett is a USA Today Best-selling author of The Magical Wayside Hotel series set in Upstate New York...

Kate Fagan

Kate Fagan Kate Fagan is an Emmy Award–winning journalist and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Made Maddy Run...

Carol Graser

Carol Graser is the author of the poetry collections Prayer for the Sorrowful Brain and The Wild Twist of Their Stems

Elaine Handley

Elaine Handley is Professor Emeritus of Empire State University and a three-time winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing’s Best Book of Poetry...

Kate Hawkins

Kate Hawkins creates crosswords for The New York Times, American Values Crossword Club, better known as AVXC...

Jennifer Iacopelli

Jennifer Iacopelli writes about ambitious young women falling in love.

Joshilyn Jackson

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson writes both page-turning domestic suspense and Southern book club...

Julia May Jonas

Julia May Jonas debut novel Vladimir was recently adapted into a Netflix limited series...

Isabel J. Kim

Isabel J. Kim lives near New York City in an apartment filled with books and swords.

Yume Kitasei

Yume Kitasei is the author of The Deep Sky, The Stardust Grail, and Saltcrop.

Beck Krefting

Beck Krefting is Professor of American Studies specializing in stand-up comedy studies at Skidmore College...

Christine Kuehn

Christine Kuehn was cocooned in the sanctity of a quiet suburban life when a mysterious letter in 1994 pierced that bubble...

Donna Marchetti

Donna Marchetti writes spicy and swoony contemporary romances with early 2000's rom-com vibes...

Mark Mayer

Mark Mayer (markgmayer.com) is the author of two story collections: About, Above, Around (TRP, 2026)...

Marilyn McCabe

Marilyn McCabe’s collections of poems include Being Many Seeds, Glass Factory, Perpetual Motion...

Natalie Moore

Natalie Moore is the editor of Saratoga Living and Capital Region Living magazines.

Patricia A. Nugent

Patricia A. Nugent writes to give voice to those who might otherwise be silenced...

Trevor Oakley

Trevor Oakley is the Head of Access and Outreach Services at the Saratoga Springs Public Libraryand has a deep love for horror literature...

JPV Oliver, Gent

JPV Oliver, Gent, is shown in the library of his family's ancient and sprawling summer retreat, MacGowan Abbey...

Christoph Paul

Christoph Paul is an award-winning author, the singer and songwriter of rock band The Dionysus Effect...

Francine Prose

Francine Prose is the author of twenty-three works of fiction including the highly acclaimed Five Weeks in the Country...

Lucyna Prostko

Lucyna Prostko was born in Poland. She graduated from the M.F.A. program at New York University...

Robert Repino

Robert Repino is the author of several works of fiction, including the science fiction novel Mort(e)...

Lauren Roberts

Lauren Roberts earned a dual Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology and American Studies from Skidmore College...

Jay Rogoff

Jay Rogoff is poet laureate of Saratoga Springs, New York

Jonathan Santlofer

Jonathan Santlofer is an author and artist. His newest novel Ten Perfect Guests will be published...

Saratoga Schaefer

Saratoga Schaefer is the USA Today Bestselling and Indie Press Bestselling author of Trad Wife...

Nancy Siegel

Nancy Siegel is Assistant Dean and Professor of Art History & Culinary History at Towson University...

Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor has been a journalist, public opinion survey researcher, demographer, and media reformer.

Abby Tegnelia

Abby Tegnelia is the publisher of the Saratoga Dispatch, Saratoga's digital media company...

Paul Tremblay

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards...

Kim van Alkemade

Kim van Alkemade is a New York Times bestselling author of four novels whose work has been translated into eleven languages.

Michael Walterich

Michael Walterich has been immersed in the written word for over thirty years.

David Wilson

David K. Wilson is an award-winning author known primarily for his popular Sam Lawson Mystery series.

Jim Windolf

Jim Windolf is the author of Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other—and the World...

Ashley Winstead

Ashley Winstead is the national bestselling author of This Book Will Bury Me, Midnight is the Darkest Hour...

Matt Witten

Matt Witten is a TV writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who has written for many TV shows...

Erica Hsiung Wojcik

Erica Hsiung Wojcik is an associate professor in the Psychology Department at Skidmore College.

Tamani Wooley

Tamani Wooley is an award-winning author who writes sizzling, multicultural contemporary romance.