2026 Festival Presenters
Watch this space as additional presenters will be confirmed during the next days and weeks.
Here you can view all presenters by genre. You can also see the presenters listed alphabetically at the bottom of the page.
FICTION
MIDDLE GRADE
NONFICTION
PICTURE BOOK & EARLY READER
POETRY
YOUNG ADULT
All 2026 Presenters by Name
Kazim Ali
Robert Mgrdich Apelian
Stefan Merrill Block
Jenna Blum
Mark Braude
Lily Brooks-Dalton
Peter Brown
Julie Buntin
Ryan Effgen
X. Fang
Alice Feagan
Craig Fehrman
Isaac Fitzgerald
Byron Graves
David Guterson
Heather Hansman
Katie Holten
Charleen Hurtubise
Kalyn Josephson
Lars Kenseth
William Kent Krueger
Christine Kuehn
Lillian Li
Emily Lloyd-Jones
Deborah Marcero
Jonathan Miles
Julian Randall
Christopher Roubique
Dan Santat
Kendra Langford Shaw
Philip Stead
Erin Stead
Emma Steinkellner
Earl Swift
K.L. Walther
