Bookstock 2026 features a stellar group of authors, poets, and teachers. Here’s a quick overview of our guests. Follow the link to a fuller bio and information about their most recent work and when they’ll speak at Bookstock.
Everything at Bookstock is free, except for Cookstock, for which there is a charge. You will need tickets for author talks, poetry readings, Master Classes, and Opening Night, though.
Authors
Katherine Arden
Katherine Arden is the New York Times bestselling author of the Winternight trilogy and the Small Spaces quartet.
Patrick Bringley
Patrick Bringley is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Beauty in the World, a memoir about his decade working as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Amity Gaige
Amity Gaige is the bestselling author of five novels. Heartwood was called “the best thriller of the year” by the Boston Globe.
Garrett M. Graff
Garrett M. Graff has spent two decades covering politics, technology, and national security and is the author of ten books. Watergate: A New History was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Caleb Kenna
Caleb Kenna is a freelance photographer and certified drone pilot from Middlebury whose work has been widely published.
Poets
Wyn Cooper
Wyn Cooper has published five books of poetry; his sixth book, The Unraveling, will appear in May 2026. A poem from his first book was turned into Sheryl Crow’s Grammy-winning “All I Wanna Do.”
Xue Di
The Chinese poet Xue Di came to the US immediately after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 in Beijing, becoming writer-in-residence at Brown University.
Sydney Lea
Sydney Lea is a Pulitzer finalist in poetry, founder of New England Review, Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-15), and recipient of Vermont’s highest artistic distinction, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Jennifeer Militello
Jennifer Militello, the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, is the author of a memoir, five collections of poetry, and a hybrid collection, Identifying the Pathogen.
Emma Paris
Emma Paris is the 2025-26 Vermont Youth Poet Laureate and a sophomore at Bennington College, where she studies Poetry and Environmental Science.
Meg Reynolds
Meg Reynolds is a poet, artist, and teacher from New England whose work has been published in numerous literary journals and in three collections.
Master Class Teachers
Robin Gaby Fisher
Robin Gaby Fisher is a Pulitzer Prize recipient and New York Times bestselling author of twelve non-fiction books.
Beth Greenberg
Beth Greenberg is a former CPA who discovered writing fiction is way more fun. She is the author of the 4-book Cupid’s Fall series.
Kitta MacPherson
Kitta MacPherson is a national award-winning science writer and author of long-form narrative nonfiction exploring how curiosity, love, and endurance shape human lives.
Beth Malow
Dr. Beth Malow is a neurologist and science communicator focused on public health, sleep, and climate change.
Cookstock
Matthew McClure
Award-winning chef Matthew McClure is the executive chef at the Woodstock Inn.
Gesine Bullock-Prado
Gesine Bullock-Prado is a renowned cookbook author, cooking teacher, and cooking show host.