Montana Book Festival

Here's a short bio: Alicia Bones is a second-year fiction student at the University of Montana. Previously, she earned her master’s degree in literature from the University of Iowa. Her work has been published in Spry, Hello Horror, Plain Song Review and elsewhere.

Leslie Budewitz blends her passion for food, the mysterious, and the Northwest in two light-hearted series: the Spice Shop Mysteries, set in Seattle's Pike Place Market, and the Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries, set in NW Montana. Death Al Dente won the 2013 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Her most recent book is Guilty as Cinnamon (December 2015), followed soon by Killing Thyme (October 4, 2016). Also a lawyer, her guide for writers... Read More →

Christine Carbo grew up in Florida, until she moved to Montana, when she was twelve. After earning a pilot's license, pursuing various adventures in Norway, and a brief stint as a flight attendant, she got an MA in English and taught writing, linguistics, and literature courses at a community college. She still teaches, in a vastly different realm as the owner of a Pilates studio in Montana. Her first suspense novel, The Wild... Read More →

Sarah Layden is the winner of the Allen and Nirelle Galson Prize for fiction and an AWP Intro Award. TRIP THROUGH YOUR WIRES is her first novel. Her short fiction can be found in Boston Review, Stone Canoe, Blackbird, Artful Dodge, The Evansville Review, Booth, PANK, the anthology Sudden Flash Youth and elsewhere. A two-time Society of Professional Journalists award winner, her recent essays, interviews and articles have appeared in Ladies... Read More →