San Antonio Book Festival

Tag: Nonfiction

Shelly Plante

  • March 5, 2026
Shelly Plante is the statewide Nature Tourism Manager in the Outreach and Education Program of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. She has been with TPWD for more than 25 years […]
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Becky Aikman

  • March 4, 2026
Becky Aikman is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction: Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II, her memoir, Saturday Night […]
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Anel I. Flores

  • March 3, 2026
Anel I. Flores fuses transfeminism, queerness, and Xicanidad into multidisciplinary visual and literary art centering gender and body autonomy, joy, and healing for Latina/e/x BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, birthing bodies, women, and […]
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Arnie Segovia

  • March 3, 2026
Arnie “ArnieTex” Segovia is a Texas-based pitmaster, content creator, and barbecue competitor. He’s known for his authentic Texas-Mexican recipes and his traditional blend of Southwest, Texas, and Norteño cooking techniques. […]
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Ann Tashi Slater

  • March 3, 2026
Ann Tashi Slater’s essays, fiction, and interviews appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Oprah Daily, Lit Hub, Guernica, Granta, and elsewhere. She is a […]
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Andrew Ho

  • March 3, 2026
Andrew Ho is a first-generation Vietnamese American, born and raised in Houston, Texas. After university, he spent three years living and traveling throughout Thailand, which heavily shaped the way he […]
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Antero Garcia

  • March 3, 2026
Antero Garcia is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and a vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English. He has authored […]
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Andrew Samia

  • March 3, 2026
Andrew Samia is a Texas pitmaster and restaurateur with a passion for blending tradition and creativity. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he made his way to Texas as a teenager […]
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Alia Hanna Habib

  • March 3, 2026
Unfortunately, Alia Hanna Habib is no longer able to join us in 2026. Alia Hanna Habib is a Vice President and literary agent at The Gernert Company, where she represents […]
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Amanda Uhle

  • March 3, 2026
Amanda Uhle writes about culture, politics, and civil rights for The Washington Post, Politico, The Boston Globe, and Newsweek. Uhle is coeditor of the I, Witness series of first-person stories […]
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Adán Medrano

  • March 3, 2026
Adán Medrano is a food writer, chef, and filmmaker specializing in the indigenous foods of Texas and the Americas. His book Truly Texas Mexican: A Native Culinary Heritage in Recipes […]
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Catherine Nixon Cooke

  • March 3, 2026
Catherine Nixon Cooke is a former journalist and the author of many books, including In Search of Tom Slick: Explorer and Visionary and Juan O’Gorman: A Confluence of Civilizations. She […]
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