Montana Book Festival 2019

Award-winning journalist Rebecca Clarren has been writing about the rural West for nearly twenty years. Her journalism, for which she has won the Hillman Prize and an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, has appeared in such magazines as MotherJones, High Country News, The Nation... Read More →

Carrie Laben is the author of the novel A Hawk in the Woods, published by Word Horde. Her work has also appeared in such venues as Apex, Birding, The Dark, Electric Literature, Indiana Review, Okey-Panky, and Outlook Springs, as well as many anthologies. In 2017 she won the Shirley... Read More →

My work is situated firmly in the medical humanities. I have been awarded the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction and the Red Hen Press Short Story Award. My newest novel, _Take Daily as Needed_ portrays mothering while chronically ill with the desperado humor I believe the subject deserves... Read More →