Words to Live By features exclusive interviews with authors, artists, and community members. Carolyn Mackler is the acclaimed author of the YA novels The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (A Michael L. Printz Honor Book), The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I, Infinite in Between, Tangled, and the middle grade novels …
Words to Live By features exclusive interviews with authors, artists, and community members. A longtime friend of Book Harvest and a member of the Book Harvest Authors’ Circle, John Claude Bemis is a the author of The Wooden Prince, Lord of Monsters, the Clockwork Dark trilogy, The Prince Who Fell from the Sky, and Flora …
Words to Live By features exclusive interviews with authors, artists, and community members. Reed Murphy lives in Wake Forest, NC, with his wife, Beth, his 8-year-old daughter, Lily, and his crazy puppy, Ziggy. Reed grew up in Durham, NC, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied Spanish. He …
Words to Live By features exclusive interviews with authors, artists, and community members. Nicholas Dawidoff, a member of the Book Harvest Authors’ Circle, is the critically acclaimed author of six books, including The Catcher Was a Spy and In the Country of Country. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and has also been a Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, and Art for …
Words to Live By features exclusive interviews with authors, artists, and community members. Amy Franks is Book Harvest’s associate director of school and family engagement, and while she has written many things over the years, her essay, A Mirror for Black Boys, was recently published in The Heartbeat of the Youth Development Field: Professional Journeys …
Words to Live By features exclusive interviews with authors, artists, and community members. Nina West December 1, 2022 Nina West, the drag persona of Andrew Levitt, is an author, activist, actor, and singer-songwriter based in Columbus, Ohio. Nina rose to national prominence with her appearance on the eleventh season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and currently …
Words to Live By features exclusive interviews with authors, artists, and community members. Darren Farrell November 1, 2022 Darren Farrell is an award-winning author and illustrator of books for children. His book, Thank You, Octopus, was an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Huffington Post Funniest Book of the Year and dubbed a “modern …
Words to Live By features exclusive interviews with authors, artists, and community members. Jason Mott October 1, 2022 Jason Mott is a bestselling author, National Book Award Winner, and Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction Winner. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at …
Words to Live By features exclusive interviews with authors, artists, and community members. Chris Vitiello (The Poetry Fox) September 1, 2022 Seen at events around the Triangle, including nearly all of Book Harvest’s events, the Poetry Fox produces custom, on-demand poems. Chris Vitiello, the man behind the Fox, was gifted a fox mascot costume and …
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Words to Live By features exclusive interviews with authors, artists, and community members. July 1, 2022 Frank Bruni Frank Bruni has been a prominent journalist for more than three decades, including more than twenty-five years at The New York Times, the last ten of them as a nationally renowned op-ed columnist. He was also a …
