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Erin Blakemore
Erin
Blakemore learned to
drool over Darcy and cry over Little Women in suburban San Diego,
California. These days, her inner heroine loves roller derby, running her own business,
and hiking in her adopted hometown of Boulder, Colorado. Erin's debut book, The
Heroine's Bookshelf, was published by HarperCollins in October, won the
2011 Colorado Book Award in the Nonfiction-General category, and will appear in
paperback November 15. Learn more at http://theheroinesbookshelf.com
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| Stephanie Barron |
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Stephanie Barron was born Francine Stephanie Barron in Binghamton, NY in 1963, the last
of six girls. Her father was a retired general in the Air Force, her mother a
beautiful woman who loved to dance. In 1981, she started college at Princeton –
one of the most formative experiences of her life. There she fenced for the
club varsity team and learned to write news stories for The Daily Princetonian – a hobby that led to two part-time jobs as
a journalist for The Miami Herald and
The San Jose Mercury News.
She majored in European
History, studying Napoleonic France, and won an Arthur W. Mellon Foundation
Fellowship in the Humanities in her senior year. Barron spent three years at
Stanford pursuing a doctorate in history; she failed to write her dissertation
(on the Brazilian Bar Association under authoritarianism; can you blame her?)
and left with a Master’s. She applied to the CIA, spent a year temping in
Northern Virginia while the FBI asked inconvenient questions of everyone she
had ever known, passed a polygraph test on her twenty-sixth birthday, and was
immediately thrown into the Career Trainee program.
Barron wrote her first
book in 1992 and left the Agency a year later. Fifteen books have followed,
along with sundry children, dogs, and houses. When she's not writing, she likes
to ski, garden, needlepoint and buy art. Her phone number is definitely
unlisted.
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Matt Mosley
Matt
Moseley is a communications strategist and a principal at InterMountain Corporate Affairs in Denver,
Colorado. He has
managed many communications projects for companies, organizations and has worked
on many political campaigns. He was the family spokesperson for Lisl Auman and
was also hired by Johnny Depp to be the family spokesperson and communications
director for Hunter S. Thompson’s funeral and ash-blast. He recently published Dear Dr. Thompson: Felony Murder, Hunter
S. Thompson and the Last Gonzo Campaign, which
was a finalist for the 2011 Colorado Book Award.
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Barbara O'Neal
Barbara O’Neal fell in love with food and restaurants
at the age of 15, when she landed a job in a Greek café and served baklava for
the first time. She sold her first novel in her twenties, and has since won a
plethora of awards, including two Colorado Book Awards and six prestigious
RITAs, most recently one for The Lost
Recipe for Happiness in 2010. Her novels have been published widely in
Europe and Australia, and she travels internationally, presenting workshops,
hiking hundreds of miles, and of course, eating. She lives with her partner, a
British endurance athlete, and their collection of cats and dogs, in Colorado
Springs. She loves to hear from her readers!
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Laura Resau
In keeping with Author Fest’s Arts-in-Education component, the event will
sponsor young adult author Laura Resau in the Manitou Springs schools.
With
a background in cultural anthropology and ESL-teaching, Laura Resau has lived and traveled in Latin America and Europe -
experiences that inspired her books for young people. Her latest novel, The
Queen of Water (co written with María Virginia Farinango) was praised as
"riveting tale... by turns heartbreaking, infuriating and ultimately
inspiring" in a starred review by Kirkus. Her previous novels - Star in
the Forest, The Ruby Notebook, The Indigo Notebook, Red
Glass, and What the Moon Saw - have garnered many starred reviews
and awards, including the IRA YA Fiction Award, the Américas Award, and a spot
on Oprah's Kids' Book List. Acclaimed for its sensitive treatment of
immigration issues, Resau's writing has been called "vibrant,
large-hearted" (Publishers' Weekly)
and "powerful, magical" (Booklist).
Resau lives with her husband and young son in Colorado. She donates a portion
of her royalties to indigenous rights organizations in Latin America.
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