Anna Celenza is the author of eight children’s books, including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (Storytelling World Award Honor Title), Beethoven’s Heroic Symphony (Silver Medal, Parents Choice Award) and Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite (Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year).  She has also published six scholarly books, including Jazz Italian Style (Bridge Book Prize), the Cambridge Companion to Gershwin, and Music and Human Flourishing.  […]

V. V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night (winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction, the 2024 Carol Shields Prize, the 2023 Asian Prize, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and an NPR Book of the Year) and Love Marriage (longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post). Her […]

Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of three poetry collections, Red Summer, selected by Carl Phillips as winner of the Dorset Prize, Darktown Follies, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Edna Meudt Book Award, and Imperial Liquor, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the UNT Rilke Prize. His work […]