Montana Book Festival 2017

Lynsey G. is a writerly type who has focused on the intersections of feminism, sexuality, and pornography for the past decade as a reviewer, interviewer, critic, documentary filmmaker, blogger, and now author of Watching Porn, an informative book about the adult entertainment i... Read More →

Mara Panich-Crouch is a bookseller at Fact and Fiction in Missoula. She received her BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Purdue University and found her home Missoula in 2002 while pursuing post-graduate studies at The University of Montana. She writes book reviews... Read More →

Acton Seibel is a mechanic and certified triple threat, with his Sun, Moon, and Rising all in Gemini.  When he’s not getting his charts done he’s building small home furnishings, reading poetry, writing short stories, and watching 80’s horror films.  None of his writings are... Read More →

After she's through wrangling details for the Montana Book Festival, Director Karla Theilen moonlights as an RN and bartender to support her writing habit with dollars and stories.  She is currently in the home stretch of a memoir chronicling six summers on a fire lookout in Idaho's... Read More →

Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large (2018, Riverfeet Press) won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award.His second book, a collection of haiku and haibun poetry called De... Read More →