More than 100 authors and illustrators [4] will appear at the 2017 Winter Institute [5] over the course of three days of plenary sessions, featured talks, author receptions, and special events.

Authors appearing at Winter Institute 12, from January 27–30 in Minneapolis, include:

• Hala Alyan, Salt Houses (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Jodi Lynn Anderson, Midnight at the Electric (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
• M.T. Anderson, Yvain: The Knight of the Lion (Candlewick)
• Natalie Anderson, City of Saints and Thieves (Putnam Young Readers)
• Marina Benjamin, Middlepause: On Life After Youth (Catapult)
• Scott Bergstrom, The Cruelty (Feiwel & Friends)
• Richard Blais, So Good (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Misha Maynerick Blaise, This Phenomenal Life (Lyon Press)
• Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do (Abrams), A Different Pond (Capstone)
• Susan Burton, Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women (The New Press)
• Nickolas Butler, The Hearts of Men (Ecco)
• Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next (Delacorte Press)
• Kayla Cagan, Piper Perish (Chronicle Books)
• Cora Carmack, Roar (Tor Teen)
• Leah Carroll, Down City (Grand Central Publishing)
• Louis V. Clark III (Two Shoes), How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century (Wisconsin Historical Society Press)
• Rachel Cohn, Kill All Happies (Disney-Hyperion)
• Vicki Covington, Once in a Blue Moon (John F. Blair, Publisher)
• Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma (Grove/Atlantic)
• Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick)
• Rebecca Donnelly, How to Stage a Catastrophe (Capstone)
• Emma Donoghue, The Lotterys Plus One (Scholastic)
• Omar El Akkad, American War (Knopf)
• Chris Finan, Drunks: An American History (Beacon Press)
• Laurie Forest, The Black Witch (Harlequin Teen)
• Jenny Forrester, Narrow River, Wide Sky: A Memoir (Hawthorne Books)
• Brian Freeman, Marathon (Quercus)
• Emily Fridlund, History of Wolves (Grove/Atlantic)
• Donna Frietas, The Happiness Effect: How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost (Oxford University Press)
• Tony Fucile, Poor Louie (Candlewick)
• Roxane Gay, Difficult Women (Grove Press)
• Grant Ginder, The People We Hate at the Wedding (Flatiron Books)
• Claudia Gray, Defy the Stars (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Lauren Grodstein, Our Short History (Algonquin)
• Ian Hamilton, The Princeling of Nanjing (House of Anansi Press)
• Heather Harpham, Happiness (Henry Holt)
• Annie Hartnett, Rabbit Cake (Tin House Books)
• Chris Hayes, A Colony in a Nation (W.W. Norton)
• Alice Hoffman, Faithful (Simon & Schuster)
• Ladee Hubbard, The Talented Tenth (Melville House)
• Joshilyn Jackson, Almost Sisters (William Morrow)
• Pam Jenoff, The Orphan’s Tale (MIRA)
• Mark Kingwell, Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters (Biblioasis)
• Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World (William Morrow)
• Lisa Ko, The Leavers (Algonquin)
• Lesley Kreuger, Mad Richard (ECW)
• Mary Kubica, Every Last Lie (Park Row Books)
• Lorna Landvik, Once in a Blue Moon Lodge (University of Minnesota Press)
• Fonda Lee, Exo (Scholastic)
• Julie Lekstrom Himes, Mikhail and Margarita (Europa Editions)
• J. Robert Lennon, Broken River (Graywolf Press)
• Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King (Feiwel & Friends)
• Alan Lightman, Song of Two Worlds (Red Hen Press)
• Brian Ludwig, The Original Ginny Moon (Park Row Books)
• Nicole Lundrigan, The Substitute (House of Anansi Press)
• Heidi Mastrogiovanni, Lala Pettibone’s Act Two (Amberjack Publishing, dist. by Midpoint Trade Books)
• Laura McBride, ’Round Midnight (Touchstone)
• Andrew McCarthy, Just Fly Away (Algonquin Young Readers)
• Jim McDermott, Bitter Is the Wind (Vireo/Rare Bird Books)
• Matthew McIntosh, theMystery.doc (Grove/Atlantic)
• Fred Minnick, Bourbon: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth (Quarto)
• Kate Moore, The Radium Girls (Sourcebooks)
• Marissa Moss, Last Things: A Graphic Memoir about ALS (Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari)
• Brandon Mull, Dragonwatch: A Fablehaven Adventure (Shadow Mountain)
• Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road (W.W. Norton)
• Sara Flannery Murphy, The Possessions (Harper)
• Robin Newman, A Wilcox & Griswold Mystery: The Case of the Poached Egg (Creston Books)
• Ann Patchett, Commonwealth (Harper)
• Phaedra Patrick, Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone (Park Row Books)
• Benjamin Percy, The Dark Net (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Bao Phi, A Different Pond (Capstone)
• Ashley Poston, Geekerella (Quirk Books)
• Mark Powell, Echolocation (Tyrus Books)
• J.L. Powers, The Broken Circle (Akashic Books)
• M.A. Powers, The Broken Circle (Akashic Books)
• Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks (Bloomsbury)
• Brontez Purnell, Since I Laid My Burden Down (The Feminist Press)
• Liz Reinhardt, Rebels Like Us (Harlequin Teen)
• Greg Ruth, Old Turtle: Questions of the Heart (Scholastic)
• Benjamin Alire Saenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life (Clarion Books)
• Laura Purdie Salas, If You Were the Moon (Millbrook Press/Lerner)
• Gerda Saunders, Memory’s Last Breath (Hachette Books)
• Melissa Savage, Lemons (Crown Books for Young Readers)
• Kim Malone Scott, Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (St. Martin’s Press)
• Jessica Shattuck, Women in the Castle (Ecco)
• Lesley Stahl, Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting (Blue Rider Press)
• Ali Standish, The Ethan I Was Before (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
• Elizabeth Strout, Anything Is Possible (Random House)
• Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, The Nest (Ecco)
• Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling (Riverhead Books)
• Natasha Tarpley, The Harlem Charade (Scholastic)
• Stan Tekiela, Backyard Birds: Welcomed Guests at Our Gardens and Feeders (AdventureKEEN)
• Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
• Laura Trunkey, Double Dutch (House of Anansi Press)
• Deb Olin Unferth, Wait Till You See Me Dance (Graywolf Press)
• Deepak Unnikrishnan, Temporary People (Restless Books)
• Peternelle van Arsdale, The Beast Is an Animal (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books)
• Brian Van Reet, Spoils (Lee Boudreaux Books, Little, Brown)
• Daniel Wallace, Extraordinary Adventures (St. Martin’s Press)
• Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don’t Rise (Sourcebooks)
• Julie Wernersbach, Swimming Holes of Texas (University of Texas Press)
• Douglas Wood, Old Turtle: Questions of the Heart (Scholastic)

Learn more about the authors appearing at Winter Institute [4] and check out the full lineup of educational programs, keynote speeches, and meet-and-greet events [6] on BookWeb.

Winter Institute 12 [5] is made possible by the generous support of lead sponsor Ingram Content Group and from publishers large and small [7].