Local Authors
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Katharine Coles
Utah's Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2012, Katie Coles' books include the novels Fire Season and The Measureable World and three collections of poems, The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension,
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Ally Condie
Ally Condie received a degree in English Teaching from Brigham Young University and spent a number of years teaching high school English in Utah and in upstate New York.
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Kristyn Crow
Kristyn knew from kindergarten that she wanted to be an author when she grew up. She is the author of three funny and fabulous picture books.
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James Dashner
Born and raised in Georgia James now lives in the Salt Lake Valley with his wife and four children. James started working with The King's English Bookshop shortly after the release of the first 13th Reality: Journal of Curious Letters.
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Jessica Day George
A lifelong reader and writer of fantasy fiction, Jessica Day George studied at Brigham Young University where she enjoyed classes in pottery-making and Old Norse, and dutifully forced herself to sit through biology and math.
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Ann Dee Ellis
Ann Dee was born in Provo, Utah. She has eight older brothers and sisters who supposedly never made her get them ice water every ten minutes and never made her scratch their backs for a nickel an hour.She wrote a long story when she was in fifth grade. Really long.
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Bree Despain
Bree Despain is the author of the Dark Divine trilogy and the Into The Dark trilogy. Bree rediscovered her childhood love for creating stories when she took a semester off college to write and direct plays for at-risk, inner-city teens from Philadelphia and New York.
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Valynne E. Maetani
Valynne E. Maetani (pronounced Vuh-lin Mah-eh-tah-nee) grew up in Utah and obtained a Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. In a former life, she was a project manager and developed educational software for children with learning disabilities.
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Lindsay Eagar
Lindsay Eagar lives in the moutains of Utah with her husband and young daughters. She has a BA in English from UVU and is now working towards her BS in History. Lindsay is a classically trained pianist and an un-classically trained rock guitarist.
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Peggy Eddleman
Peggy Eddleman is the author of Sky Jumpers (a Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominee, a Utah Beehive Award Nominee, a Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee, a South Carolina Children’s Book Award&nbs
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Gerald Elias
Order your Gerald Elias books through Monday, April 25, 2002, and recieve an autographed copy (while supplies last)! Author proceeds of all Gerald Elias books sold will benefit FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake.
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Emily Wing Smith
Even as a child, Emily Wing Smith had overly thick eyebrows, a passion for writing, and a tendency toward attending odd schools.
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Leo Espinosa
Leo Espinosa is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Bogotá, Colombia.
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Rosalyn Eves
Rosalyn Eves is a professor of English living in southern Utah and is involved in the YA community there and across the country. Blood Rose Rebellion is her debut novel. Find out more at rosalyneves.com
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Amy Finnegan
Amy Finnegan writes her own stories because she enjoys falling in love over and over again, and thinks everyone deserves a happy ending. She likes to travel the world—usually to locations where her favorite books take place—and owes her unquenchable thirst for reading to Jane Austen and J.K.
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Michael Gills
Michael Gills’ first collection of short fiction, Why I Lie, was published by University of Nevada Press in 2002. It won a Utah Book Prize, was a finalist for the Arkansas’ Porter Prize and was chosen as a top literary debut by The Southern Review.
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