Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- Eden Appiah-Kubi, Stephanie Barron (w/Melissa Scholes Young):
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Fiction
Rachel Carson Pavilion
"The Bennet Women" is a modern spin on "Pride and Prejudice", with Black, trans and Filipina characters in an all-women's dorm. Jane Austen must prevent a terrible crime during 1816 when a volcanic eruption shrouded the planet for 16 months in "Jane and the Year Without Summer." Fans of Jane Austen and fan fiction will love this!
Moderated by Melissa Scholes Young
Fiction
Eden Appiah-Kubi
Latest Title: The Bennet Women
Eden Appiah-Kubi fell in love with classic novels in fourth grade when her mom read her “Jane Eyre,” chapter by chapter, as a bedtime story. She’s an alumna of a small New England university and a former Peace Corps volunteer. Eden developed her fiction writing through years spent in a small Washington, D.C., critique group. Today she works as a librarian and lives in the D.C. suburbs with her husband and hilarious daughter. She will be presenting “The Bennet Women.”
Fiction
Stephanie Barron
Latest Title: Jane and the Year Without a Summer
Stephanie Barron, who also writes as Francine Mathews, is the author of 30 novels of suspense, espionage and historical fiction. These include the Jane Austen Mystery Series, of which “Jane and the Year Without a Summer” is her latest title. A graduate of Princeton, Stephanie received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities and earned a Masters in History from Stanford University. Stephanie has also worked as a journalist and as an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, where she briefly served on the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Raised in Potomac, Md., she lives and works in Denver.
Fiction
Melissa Scholes Young
Latest Title: The Hive
Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels, “The Hive” and “Flood,” and editor of “Grace in Darkness” and “Furious Gravity,” two anthologies by women writers. She is a contributing editor at Fiction Writers Review, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Ms., The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, Literary Hub and Believer. She has been the recipient of the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship, the Center for Mark Twain Studies’ Quarry Farm Fellowship, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. Born and raised in Hannibal, Mo., she is an associate professor in Literature at American University.
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