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, great mysteries, and the Northwest in two cozy mystery series. CHAI ANOTHER DAY, her fourth Spice Shop Mystery, set in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, is the newest, published in June 2019. DEATH AL DENTE, first in the Food Lovers' Village... 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... 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... Read More →