The Portland Book Festival fills the Portland Art Museum and neighboring venues on Saturday, November 4, 2023. Oregon’s all-ages, daylong event celebrates books and storytelling, including author panels, pop-up readings, writing workshops, kids’ story time, and a book fair.

Literary Arts recently released the following list of authors scheduled to appear at the 2023 Portland Book Festival:

Fiction

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars | Kathleen Alcott, Emergency | Naomi Alderman, The Future | Jazmina Barrera, Cross-Stitch | Patrick deWitt, The Librarianist | Debra Magpie Earling, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea | John Freeman, Freeman’s: Conclusions | Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare | Lydia Kiesling, Mobility | Angie Kim, Happiness Falls | E. J. Koh, The Liberators | Edan Lepucki, Time’s Mouth | Jonathan Lethem, Brooklyn Crime Novel | Ayana Mathis, The Unsettled | Tim O’Brien, America Fantastica | Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy | Justin Torres, Blackouts | Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene | Vauhini Vara, This Is Salvaged | Michelle Wildgen, Wine People | Alice Winn, In Memoriam

Nonfiction

Aaron Adams & Liz Crain, Fermenter | Erica Berry, Wolfish | Cat Bohannon, Eve | Roz Chast, I Must Be Dreaming | Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy | Stacey Mei Yan Fong, 50 Pies, 50 States | John Freeman, Freeman’s | Santi Elijah Holley, An Amerikan Family | Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches | Mitchell S. Jackson, Fly | Kate Lebo, Pie School | Michael Lewis, Going Infinite | Navied Mahdavian, This Country | Hetty Lui McKinnon, Tenderheart | Viet Thanh Nguyen, A Man of Two Faces | Roger Reeves, Dark Days | Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon | Angela Sterritt, Unbroken | Jane Wong, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

Poetry

Stephanie Adams-Santos, Dream of Xibalba | Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Quiet | Oliver de la Paz, The Diaspora Sonnets | Elisa Gonzalez, Grand Tour | Jane Hirshfield, The Asking | Major Jackson, Razzle Dazzle | Anis Mojgani, The Tigers, They Let Me | Jae Nichelle, God Themselves | Paisley Rekdal, West: A Translation | Charif Shanahan, Trace Evidence

Young Adult

Jennifer Baker, Forgive Me Not | Kendare Blake, Champion of Fate | Jennifer Dugan, The Last Girls Standing | Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die | Kim Johnson, Invisible Son | Kayvion Lewis, Thieves’ Gambit | Kelly McWilliams, Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay | Elizabeth Rusch, The Twenty-One | Arya Shahi, An Impossible Thing to Say | Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come

Middle Grade

Breena Bard, Wildfire | Mac Barnett & Shawn Harris, The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom | Eoin Colfer, Juniper’s Christmas | Jim Di Bartolo & Laini Taylor, Billie Blaster and the Robot Army from Outer Space | Arnée Flores, The Spirit Queen | Donna Barba Higuera, Alebrijes | Pedro Martín, Mexikid | Rosanne Parry, A Horse Named Sky | Jewell Parker Rhodes, Treasure Island: Runaway Gold | Nisi Shawl, Speculation | Zachary Sterling, Mabuhay! | Jennifer Torres, Meet Me at Midnight

Picture Book

Emily Arrow, picture book host | Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen, How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? | Andrea Beaty, Lila Greer, Teacher of the Year | Ben Clanton & Andy Chou Musser, Ploof | Amy Seto Forrester & Andy Chou Musser, Search for a Giant Squid | Andy Griffiths, The 156-Story Treehouse: Holiday Havoc! | Charise Mericle Harper, I Cannot Draw a Bicycle | Joanna Ho, Say My Name | Nikkolas Smith, The Artivist | Salina Yoon, Penguin and Ollie

Pop-Up Authors

Joshua James Amberson, Staring Contest | Matilda Bickers, Working It | Rebecca Clarren, The Cost of Free Land | Zaji Cox, Plums for Months | Carla Crujido, The Strange Beautiful | Brennan DeFrisco, Honeysuckle & Nightshade | Incite: Queer Writers Read, with Dean Backus, Trystan Angel Reese, & Karelia Stetz-Waters | Tim Lane, The Neighbors We Want | Shilo Niziolek, Fever | Mary Rechner, Marrying Friends | Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Helen House | Charity E. Yoro, ten-cent flower & other territories | and more!

For more information on the Portland Book Festival, see pdxbookfest.org.