Montana Book Festival 2018

Sarah Aswell is a freelance writer and comedian. Her work has appeared in places like The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, National Lampoon, Funny or Die, and many more. She’s a contributing writer at MAD Magazine, Scary Mommy, and Reductress.

Sheri Boggs is a librarian with the Spokane County Library District and has been published in Lilac City Fairy Tales and other Spokane area anthologies

Kris Dinnison spent nearly two decades as a teacher and librarian while dreaming of becoming a writer. Her first novel, You and Me and Him, came out in 2015 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She lives and writes in Spokane, Washington.  

Melissa Huggins is a prose writer currently at work on a collection of essays. Her stories and essays have appeared in theInlander, Lilac City Fairy Tales, Railtown Almanac, the Oyez Review, and elsewhere. Her author interviews with Joyce Carol Oates, William T. Vollmann, and Emily... Read More →

Mara Panich-Crouch is a bookseller at Fact and Fiction Books in Missoula. She received her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Purdue University and found her home Missoula in 2002 while pursuing post-graduate studies at The University of Montana. She loves giving (and... Read More →

Acton Seibel currently resides in Western Montana with two dogs, a cat, and one amazing BFF.  He is a dedicated beer drinker and holds a degree in Creative Writing and English Literature.  

Aileen Keown Vaux (Consolation Prize, 2018) earned her MFA from Eastern WashingtonUniversity, and her essays and poems can be found in Lilac City Fairy Tales, Railtown Almanac, and The Spokesman-Review.  Currently, she lives in Spokane, WA where she works as a Career Advisor for... Read More →