Authors
Neal Barrett, Jr., author of Prince of Christler Coke
Austin Bay, author of The Wrong Side of Brightness
Sarah Bird, author of The Gap Year, How Perfect Is That, The Flamenco Academy, and The Yokota Officers’ Club
John Burnett, NPR correspondent and author
Liz Carpenter, noted journalist and presidential press secretary and author of Unplanned Parenthood, Start With a Laugh, and Ruffles and Flourishes
Gregory Curtis, author of Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)
David Garrido, executive chef of Garrido’s in Austin and author of Nuevo Tex-Mex
James W. Kunetka, New York Times best-selling author of War Day and Nature’s End
D. Anne Love, author of The Puppeteer’s Apprentice
James Magnuson, author of The Hounds of Winter (University of Texas Press, September 2005)
Martha McCabe, author of Praise at Midnight
Joe Nick Patoski, author of Texas Coast (University of Texas Press, October 2005)
David Rice, author of Crazy Loco
Angela Shelf Medearis, noted author and media personality
Debra Monroe, author of On the Outskirts of Normal and Shambles
Glenn W. Smith, author of The Politics of Deceit and the director of DriveDemocracy.org
Renee Peterson Trudeau, career and life/balance coach and president of Career Strategists
Richard Vogt a.k.a. Richard from Texas in Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Eddie Wilson, proprietor of Austin’s Threadgill’s restaurants who is writing a memoir about the Armadillo World Headquarters.
Lawrence Wright, author, screenwriter, and staff writer for The New Yorker
Publishers
Westcliffe Publishers, publisher of Texas Then and Now, by Richard Reynolds (September 2005)
Theater Companies
Nushank Theater Collective, Austin, Texas, theatrical troupe that presents the play She Flies for schools
Literary Events/Festivals
The 2007 Kansas Book Festival
Corporate Clients
AMD