UntitledTown Book and Author Festival 2019

Jill Swenson is a literary agent and developmental editor who specializes in memoir and narrative nonfiction. After graduating from Lawrence University, she earned her Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. A recovering academic, she gave up the golden handcuffs of tenure in 2002 when... Read More →

Raised by therapists and married to a defense attorney, Laura Jean Baker writes where mental health, crime, and family intersect.She earned her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Michigan, where she was a Colby Fellow for graduate study.Her essays have appeared at The... Read More →

David McGlynn is the author of three books – One Day You'll Thank Me: Lessons From an Unexpected Fatherhood, A Door in the Ocean, and the 2008 story collection, The End of the Straight and Narrow, all published by Counterpoint Press. A Door in the Ocean was reviewed on National... Read More →