Author of many books, including the novel Leaving, just out: “Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites―threatening the foundations of the lives they’ve built apart.” Roxana is the author of eleven books—seven novels, three collections of short stories, and a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books. Her shorter fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.
Author of the 2023 family memoir, High Time. “Working Waterfront” review: “Like the seasoned journalist Trafford is, she is well equipped to examine her life and carry a reader along its twists and turns, its ups and downs.” An award-winning journalist and the author of three other books as well, Abigail has worked as a reporter and editor for The Washington Postand U. S. News and World Report. She has been a commentator for Washington Post Radio and a syndicated columnist with Universal Press Syndicate. She gave a keynote address at the Whit House Conference on Aging in 2005.
Jessica Shattuck’s newest novel, Last House, came out just this summer. She is also the author of The Women in the Castle, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the New England Book Award; Perfect Life; and The Hazards of Good Breeding, among other honors a Boston Globe best book of the year. Her shorter writings have appeared in The New Yorker, Glamour, Open City, The Tampa Review, Wired, and elsewhere.
In conversation with Helen Watson Cook about her memoir, She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy. From the Goodreads review: “In dense, lyrical prose, Jody Gelb pays tribute to her daughter's short life. She lays bare her experience, from profound suffering to ecstatic joy. It is a mother-daughter memoir scrubbed of sentiment, the naked truth of being human in this imperfect world.” An actor for many years. Jody has created roles in the Tony Award-winning shows “The Who's Tommy” and “Titanic.” She has also acted on Broadway in “Wicked,” “Wrong Mountain,” and “Big River.”
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