300 Block of Montgomery Street
The Syracuse University Book Store and the YMCA Downtown Writer's Center will host an exciting new addition to Syracuse's Annual Arts & Crafts Festival. A book fair showcasing the literature and creative talents of local and regional authors and illustrators beckons book lovers of all ages. The centerpiece of the Book Fair are local non-fiction. poetry, and children's books whose authors and illustrators will be on hand to discuss, read and autograph their books. For a list of authors and dates/time, click here.
Reading from his own works, Christopher Kennedy is the author of full-length collections of poetry, Nietzsche's Horse, Trouble with the Machine, and Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death, adn three poetry chapbooks, Greatest Hits, King Cobra Does the Mambo, and "B" Sides. Kennedy is Syracuse University's Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. His work has appeared in Grand Street, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Mississippi Review, McSweeney's and many other journals and magazines.
Donald Leopold, will speak and answer questions about native plants, endangered species, and habitat management. He is a Distinguish Teaching professor at SUNY ESF and is author of Native Plants of the Northeast, and Trees of New York State Native & Naturalized. He is coauthor of The Landowner's Guide to State-Protected Plants of Forest in NYS and Trees of the Central Hardwood Forests of North America: An Identification and Cultivation Guide.
Matthew Dunn represents central New York talant at its best! Author of The Good Silver and Erased, he is the first self-published author to ever be inducted into the International Thriller Writers organization. The Good Silver intertwines a compelling present-day murder mystery with the secretive Oneida Community, a utopian commune established in the mid-1800's. His fifth novel, Erased won an IPPY in the Mysyery/Suspense/Thriller category. Honoring the best independently published books of the past year, the 12th Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards drew 3,200 entries from 16 countries around the world.