Get Lit! Festival Authors

 

 

The 2012 Get Lit! Festival is hosting over forty regional, national, and international authors in Spokane. During the festival's fifty events, a wide range of genres are represented including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and others. 

Jess Walter	Beautiful Ruins
Colson Whitehead	Zone One
Steve Almond	God Bless America
K.L. Cook	Love Songs for the Quarantined
Cristina Garcia	The Lady Matador's Hotel
Caitlin Horrocks	This Is Not Your City
Sherry Jones	The Sword of Medina
John Keeble	Broken Ground
Samuel Ligon	Drift and Swerve
Lori Ostlund	The Bigness of the World
Jason Skipper	Hustle
Gregory Spatz	Inukshuk
Frank Zafiro	And Every Man Has To Die

 

 

 

Susan Orlean	Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Keith Boykin	Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
Aaron Bobrow-Strain	White Bread
Wendy Call	No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy
Natalie Kusz	Road Song
Julian Smith	Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure
Anu Taranath	UW Professor and Humanities Washington lecturer on global literature
Rachel Toor	Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running
Isabel Wilkerson	The Warmth of Other Suns
David Wolman	The End of Money

 

 

 

Ted Kooser	Delights & Shadows
Elizabeth Austen	Every Dress a Decision
Thomas Brush	Last Night
Gabrielle Calvocoressi	Apocalyptic Swing
Christopher Howell	Gaze
Kathleen Flenniken	Plume
Maya Jewell Zeller	Rust Fish
Jonathan Johnson	In the Land We Imagined Ourselves
Molly Tenenbaum	The Cupboard Artist
Russell Thorburn	Misfit Hearts
Srikanth Reddy	Voyager

 

 

 

 

Lois Lowry	The Giver series
Sarah Conover	This Little Light of Mine series
Maureen McQuerry	The Peculiars
Claire Rudolf Murphy	Marching With Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage

 

 

 

 

The American Place Theatre	Literature to Life Performance of The Giver by Lois Lowry
Rick Bass & Stellarondo	In Concert at the Masonic Temple