Montana Book Festival

Jane J Sparks moved from Minneapolis to Missoula in July 2014. She says it felt like moving home as she was a regular visitor to Missoula since 1999.  Originally from Kentucky, Jane spent 38 years in the Minneapolis area where she owned an insurance agency that specialized in... Read More →

Lois Welch taught English at the University of Montana-Missoula for over three decades, writing scholarly and non-fiction articles, giving talks, directing the Creative Writing Program and chairing the English Department. As Mrs James Welch, she was actively, happily supportive of... Read More →

James Lee Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels and two collections of short stories. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

Melissa Kwasny is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today  (University of Washington Press Pacific Northwest Poetry Series) and Pictograph (Milkweed Editions), as well as a collection of prose writings, Earth Recitals: Essays on... Read More →