Author Spotlight | Victor LaValle on AADL.TV

Join Lucy as she shines a spotlight on the works of a single author. This month she looks at the novels of Victor LaValle.

Novelist and short fiction writer Victor LaValle has been the recipient of numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Shirley Jackson Award, American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens.

Author Spotlight | Yiyun Li on AADL.TV

Join Lucy as she shines a spotlight on the works of a single author. This month she looks at the novels of Yiyun Li.

Yiyun Li is a Chinese-born writer and professor in the United States. Her short stories and novels have won several awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, and the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Where Reasons End.

Author Spotlight | Nicole Dennis-Benn

Join Lucy as she shines a spotlight on the works of a single author. This month she looks at the novels of Nicole Dennis-Benn.

In addition to being a two time Lambda Literary Award Winner, Nicole Dennis-Benn is a recipient of the National Foundation for the Arts Grant. She was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize; and has been long-listed for The Pen/Faulkner Award in Fiction and short-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize.

Author Spotlight | Sara Nović on AADL.TV

Join Lucy as she shines a spotlight on the works of a single author. This month she looks at the novels of Sara Nović.

Sara Nović holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation. Her first novel, Girl at War, won the American Library Association's Alex Award, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is an instructor of Deaf studies and creative writing, and lives in Philadelphia with her family.

Author Spotlight | Quan Barry on AADL.TV

Join Lucy as she shines a spotlight on the works of a single author. This month she looks at the novels of Quan Barry.

Born in Saigon and raised on Boston’s northshore, Quan Barry is the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Barry is the author of six books of fiction and poetry.

Barry is currently Forward Theater’s first ever Writer-in-Residence. Her first play production, The Mytilenean Debate, ran from February 24-March 13 of 2022.

Author Spotlight | Talia Hibbert on AADL.TV

Join Lucy as she shines a spotlight on the works of a single author. This month she looks at the novels of Talia Hibbert.

Talia Hibbert is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who lives in a bedroom full of books. She writes steamy, diverse romance because she believes that people of marginalized identities need honest and positive representation.

Talia and her many books reside in the English Midlands.