Bookstock 2026 features a stellar group of authors, poets, teachers, interviewers and presenters. 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.
Tyler Alexander
Tyler Alexander is a Vermont high school teacher whose book, If I Can Get Home This Fall chronicles the epic story of Dan Mason, a white man who served in the Civil War.
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.
Angélica Del Campo
Angélica Del Campo is a lawyer, editor, and writer. She’s written clidren’s books and edited more than thirty comic book titles. She currently lives in Vermont.
Amity Gaige
Amity Gaige is the bestselling author of five novels. Heartwood was called “the best thriller of the year” by the Boston Globe.
Makenna Goodman
Makenna Goodman is the author of two critically acclaimed novels. Helen of Nowhere was named a Favorite Book of 2026 (The Times) and was called “a perfect fairy tale for our times” (The Guardian).
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.
Sasha Hom
Sasha Hom lives off-grid on a 600-acre land co-op where she lives among children, many goats, fowl, and a dog. Sidework is her first book.
Caleb Kenna
Caleb Kenna is a freelance photographer and certified drone pilot from Middlebury whose work has been widely published.
Liniers
Born in Argentina in 1973, Ricardo Liniers Siri (a.k.a. Liniers) is the creator of the daily strip Macanudo and graphic novels for younger readers, including the Eisner Award-winning Good Night, Planet.
Aaron Starmer
Aaron Starmer is the author of more than a dozen middle grade and young adult novels. Spontaneous was adapted into a critically acclaimed film. His latest novel, Night Swimming, is a combination of speculative and historic fiction.
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.”
Chard deNiord
Chard deNiord served as Poet Laureate of Vermont from 2015-2019. Westminster West is his ninth collection of poetry.
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.
Kristin Dykstra
Kristin Dykstra is a writer, literary translator, and scholar. She is the author of Dissonance, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2025.
Carlene Kucharczyk
Carlene Kucharczyk’s debut poetry collection, Strange Hymn, won the 2024 Juniper Prize for Poetry. She earned an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State 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.
Jeff McRae
Jeff McRae lives in Vermont where he works as a general news reporter for Vermont News and Media. The Kingdom Where No One Dies is his debut collection.
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.