Twin Cities Book Festival

Presenting Authors

In this section you’ll find our roster of authors who presented their work via readings, panels, and conversations.  Click on the author photo for more information about that guest.

Chantel Acevedo

Kwame Alexander

Ayad Akhtar

Derf Backderf

Sophie Blackall

Bryan Bliss

Victoria Bond

David Bowles

W. Bruce Cameron

Sumita  Chakraborty

Jerry Craft

Kate dicamillo

Heid E. Erdrich

Jasper Fforde

Eric Gansworth

Lamar Giles

Kathleen Gros

David Hajdu

yona harvey

Linda Hogan

Ursula murray husted

tiffany d. jackson

Kim Johnson

Hope Larson

TED Mathys

Naomi Shihab Nye

James Patterson

Joy Priest

Tim Probert

Justin A. Reynolds

David A. Robertson

kathleen rooney

Tatiana Ryckman

Djenane Saint Juste

Yusef Salaam

Jon Scieszka

R. Sikoryak

james otis smith

Adam Smyer

Pamela Sneed

jonathan stutzman

frank wilderson

Kao Kalia Yang

Ibi zoboi

Minnesota Writers Mashup

The TCBF’s ever-popular Minnesota Author Morning Mingle was reimagined this year in a fun and exciting new format, featuring the writers below. Purchase books by these authors from Magers & Quinn Booksellers!

Chapbook Launch

Rain Taxi is proud to include in this year’s TCBF the launch reading for a chapbook featuring nine Black poets of the Twin Cities responding to the murder of George Floyd. The chapbook, titled Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, is edited by Mary Moore Easter and is now available for purchase HERE.