R.O. Kwon is the author of The Incendiaries, published by Riverhead (U.S.) and Virago (U.K.). The Incendiaries was an American Booksellers Association Indie Next #1 Great Read and Indies Introduce selection, and it is being translated into four languages. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vice, BuzzFeed, Noon, Time, Playboy, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the...

Writers’ Workshop graduate Maria Kuznetsova will read from her uproarious novel, Oksana, Behave! “What luck for readers that Oksana can't behave! Little devil, infinite imbecile, poor futureless child—all the names her displaced, loving family give to her as she crashes and burns and wanders the wilderness of her inheritance, fit perfectly . . . This novel is a stark, hilarious delight." —Paul Harding

Maria Kuznetsova was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and moved to the United States as a child. Her...

Please join us for a Q & A session with Evan James in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 11 a.m. on Friday, March 29.

Writers’ Workshop graduate Evan James will read from his new novel Cheer Up Mr. Widdicombe, a comedy of manners about an eccentric family and the absurd happenings that befall them during one frenzied summer at their home in the Pacific Northwest. “What a joy to be with the Widdicombes! As funny and charming as a summer party you never want to end.”— Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

Evan James’s personal essays and fiction have appeared in The New York Times and Oxford...