PARTICIPANTS CATEGORY

When:
September
28-30, 2012
Fri & Sat: noon-8pm
Sun: noon-7pm

Where:
Mt. Vernon Place,
centered on 600
North Charles St,
Baltimore MD 21201

The Baltimore Book Festival features more than 200 authors speaking on 8 stages throughout the festival!

2011 Presenting Authors


Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

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 Common
Common

One Day It'll All Make Sense

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Myla Goldberg
Myla Goldberg

The False Friend

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Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman

The Most Dangerous Thing

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Roland S. Martin
Roland S. Martin

The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House

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Daisy Martinez
Daisy Martinez

Daisy: Morning, Noon and Night

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Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan

Getting to Happy

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Jacquelyn Mitchard
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Second Nature: A Love Story

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Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley

Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure

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Shirley Strawberry
Shirley Strawberry

The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn't Sexy

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Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger

Darkness, My Old Friend

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Ryan Abb

Vain Glory

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Dreams; Tomorrow's Memories; The Halfling’s Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale; The Literary Handyman

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Akbar Ahmed
Akbar Ahmed

Suspended Somewhere Between: A Book of Verse

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Rahne Alexander

The Degenerettes

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Catherine Asaro
Catherine Asaro

Carnelians, Diamond Star, The Night Bird

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Jared Ball

I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto

Christi Barth

Cruising Toward Love, Act Like We're In Love, Carolina Heat

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Hanne Blank

Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex and Relationships for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them)

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Andrea Bonior

The Friendship Fix

Pseudonymous Bosch

You Have to Stop This

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Michelle Brandon

My Lady Viper; Prisoner to the Queen

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Libba Bray

Beauty Queens

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Eddie Brown
Sharon Buchbinder
Sharon Buchbinder

Kiss of the Silver Wolf; Desire and Deception

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LindaJoy Burke
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Carmen Webster Buxton

The Sixth Discipline; No Safe Haven

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Ching-In Chen
Dan Chodorkoff

Loisaida

Brenda W. Clough

Revise The World; Speak To Our Desires

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Spencer Compton

Get Real

Crystal Cook
Cindy Crabb

Doris Zine

Virginia Crawford

Touch

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Chic Dambach

Exhaust the Limits: The Life and Times of a Global Peacebuilder

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LJ DeLeon
LJ DeLeon

Warrior's Rise; Dragon Child; Absolution; The Ultimate Game

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Toby Devens

Mercy Lord, My Husband's in the Kitchen; My Favorite Midlife Crisis (Yet)

Peachy Dixon

A Peachy Life

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Kate Dolan
Kate Dolan

Avery's Treasure, A Certain Want of Reason, The Appearance of Impropriety

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Stephanie Draven
Stephanie Draven

Poisoned Kisses, Dark Sins & Desert Sands

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Stephanie Dray
Stephanie Dray

Lily of the Nile, Song of the Nile

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William Dudley

Martime Maryland

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Jai Dulani
Stephen Duncombe

White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race

Ryan Eckes

Old News

Arielle Eckstut

The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published

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Rosemary Edghill

Mad Maudlin

Jessica Elfenbein

Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City

Paul Espinosa

Peabody Collections Spotlight: Birds, Beasts, and Books

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Jules Feiffer

My Side of the Car

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Kate Feiffer

My Side of the Car

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Joya Fields
Joya Fields

Beneath the Surface

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Susan Fillion

Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel: Bringing Matisse to America

Jordan Flaherty

Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6

Sarah Gardner Borden
Mike Gesker

The Orioles Encyclopedia

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Eric D. Goodman
Eric D. Goodman

Tracks: A Novel in Stories

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Stephen Gordon
Stephen Gordon

In The Name of God

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Gavin Grant

Steampunk!

Mark Gunnery

The Girl Who Renegotiated Trauma

Elektra Hammond
Elektra Hammond

In an Iron Cage: The Magic of Steampunk

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Clarinda Harriss

Honoree, Harriss Poetry Prize

Megan Hart
Megan Hart

Virtue and Vice

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Ben Hatke

Zita the Spacegirl

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K.D. Hays
K.D. Hays

George Washington Stepped Here, Worth Its Weight in Old, Toto's Tale

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Teresa Hearl
Teresa Hearl

Another Fine Mess

Melanie Henderson
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Kristina Henry

The Fish Tank

Matt Hern

Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future

Heidi Herr

Peabody Collections Spotlight: Feral Women to Paper Bag Cookery

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Kathy Hester

The Vegan Slow Cooker

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Leanna Renee Hieber

The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

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Danuta Hinc
Danuta Hinc

To Kill the Other

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Thomas Hollowak

Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City

Troy Howell

The Dragon of Cripple Creek

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Margaret Hren

Seduced By a Piedmont Moon

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Sarah Huck
Sarah Huck

Campfire Cookery

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Letty James
Stephen Janis
Stephen Janis

Why Do We Kill?

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Emily Jenkins

Invisible Inkling

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Feiffer Kate
Laura Kaye
Laura Kaye

Hearts in Darkness, Forever Freed, Just Gotta Say

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Robin Kaye

Yours for the Taking, Breakfast in Bed, Too Hot to Handle, Romeo, Romeo

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Christie Kelley
Cindy Kelly

Outdoor Sculpture in Baltimore

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Matthew Kirby

The Clockwork Three

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Cheryl Klam
Cheryl Klam

The Pretty One, Elusion & Etherworld

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Eliza Knight
Eliza Knight

A Lady's Charade; A Pirate's Bounty; Lady Seductress's Ball

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Gordon Korman

The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book One: The Medusa Plot

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Sarah Lazare
Lyah Beth LeFlore
KH LeMoyne

Betrayal's Shadow, Warrior Reborn, Return of the Legacy

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E. Lockhart

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

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Kathy Love
Kathy Love

So I Married A Demon Slayer

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Kimberley Lynne

A Dickens of a Carol

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Loni Lynne
Loni Lynne

Wanted: One Ghost

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Bryan MacKay

Baltimore Trails

John Maclay

A Little Red Book of Vampire Stories; Dreadful Delineations; Divagations

John Maclay

A Little Red Book of Vampire Stories; Dreadful Delineations; Divagations

China Martens

Catbird; The Future Generation; Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind

Jacquie Hood Martin
Jacquie Hood Martin

Fulfilled! The Art and Joy of Balanced Living

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Juliet Martini
Michael Mattocks
Sam McBratney

Guess How Much I Love You

Chris McCreary

Undone: a fakebook

Lisa McCue

Quiet Bunny and Noisy Puppy

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Jane Wilson McWilliams

Annapolis, City on the Severn

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Tony Medina
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Charles Mitchell

Maryland Voices of the Civil War

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Sarah Mlynowski

Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn't Have)

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Johnny Mo

Rock the Party

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Tomas Moniz

Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontier of Fatherhood

Janet Mullany
Janet Mullany

Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion / Jane and the Damned

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Maria Murnane

Perfect on Paper

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Brian Murphy

See Mix Drink

Kadir Nelson

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

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Michelle Antoinette Nelson

Black Marks on White Paper

Elizabeth Nix

Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City

Lea Nolan
Lea Nolan

The Hoodoo Apprentice; Benevolence; Oliver Swizzlestick

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Matthew Norman

Domestic Violets

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Kevin O'Malley

The Great Race

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Michael Olesker

The Colts' Baltimore

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Katie Omberg

Gay Kid

Allison Pang
Allison Pang

A Brush of Darkness, A Sliver of Shadow

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Charmaine Parker
Joanna Pearson

The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills

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Antero Pietila
Daniel Polansky

Low Town

Sandy Pollock
Kate Poole
Kate Poole

Anchor and Storm; Beast of Caledonia; "Exhibition"

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Will Potter

Green is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege

John Prendergast
Fernando Quijano III
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Michelle Ratner
Jon Robertson
Jon Robertson

Vegan Unplugged: A Pantry Cuisine Cookbook and Survival Guide

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Robin Robertson
Robin Robertson

Vegan Fire and Spice

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Susan Rosenberg

An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country

Gillian Royas
Adam Ruben

Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go To Grad School

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Lisa Ruff
Lisa Ruff
Don Sakers

Dance for the Ivory Madonna; A Rose From Old Terra

Robert Sanabria
Robert Sanabria

The Last Califórnio

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Kathleen Waters Sander

Mary Elizabeth Garrett

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Gilbert Sandler

Home Front Baltimore

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Elizabeth Savage

Grammar

Nicole Schultheis

Maryland Writers' Association

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Kelvin Sewell
Kelvin Sewell

Why Do We Kill?

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Laura Shovan

Mountain, Log, Salt and Stone

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Dominic Smith
Dominic Smith

Bright and Distant Shores

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Fraser Smith

Here Lies Jim Crow

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Celeste Sollod

Baltimore Bibliophile and Baltimore Book Blogger

Dean Spade

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

Maria Speck

Ancient Grains for Modern Meals

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Lester Spence
Lester Spence

Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-Hop and Black Politics

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Billee Jenkins Stallings

Murray Leinster: The Life and Work

Eric Stanley

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

David Henry Sterry

The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published

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Dominique Stevenson

Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther

Susan Stockdale
Susan Stockdale

Bring on the Birds

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Michael Swanwick

In the Drift; Vacuum Flowers; Griffin's Egg; Stations of the Tide; The Iron Dragon's Daughter; Jack Faust

Andrea Syrtash
Andrea Syrtash

Cheat on Your Husband (With Your Husband): How To Date Your Spouse

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William Pat Tandy

Smile Hon You're in Baltimore

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Truth Thomas
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Max Tremblay

White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race

Eden Unger Bowditch

The Atomic Weight of Secrets or The Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black

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Chella Vaidyanathan

Peabody Collections Spotlight: The Great Exhibition

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Chris Van Dusen

The Circus Ship

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James Waller

Drinkology Beer

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Jackie Wang

Memoirs of a Queer Hapa; Loneberry

Sarah Wendell
Eric Wight

Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace

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Douglas Wilburn

Broke Guy Stir Fry

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Rachel Wildavsky

The Secret of Rover

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Rhonda Williams

The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality

Maryrose Wood

The Poison Diaries

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Baynard Woods
Baynard Woods

Coffin Point: The Strange Cases of Ed McTeer, Witchdoctor Sheriff

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Diane Wylie
Diane Wylie

Moonlight and Illusions, Adam's Treasure, Jenny's Passion, Lila's Vow, Secrets and Sacrifices

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Susi Wyss

The Civilzed World: A Novel in Stories

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Joe Yonan

Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One

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Rebecca York
Rebecca York

More Than a Man; Dark Warrior

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Jaimee Young
Jaimee Young

Campfire Cookery

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Mike Young

We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough

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