Authors on the Move! 2022 logo

Sacramento’s Premier Literary Event

Participating Authors 2025

Author biographies can be found here: Author Biographies – Authors on the Move 2025

Children

Maxton Baeza, The Carousel King and the Space Mission (Sensory Edition)

Donna Janell Bowman, Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills

Leticia Ordaz, The Power of a Sister Circle: A Girl’s Guide to Making Friends

Billy Mills, Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills

Shanthi Sekaran, Boomi’s Boombox

Fiction

Ann Bancroft, Almost Family

Janie Kim, We Carry the Sea in Our Hands

Meera Ekkanath Klein, Sunshine Clinic: A Novel with Recipes

Tomas Moniz, All Friends Are Necessary

Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Julia Park Tracey, Silence

Elaine Russell, When the Tamarind Tree Blooms

Memoir

Albert Camarillo, Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality

Manjula Martin, The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

Eugene Rodriguez, Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging

Raj Tawney, Colorful Palate: A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience

Jose Vadi, Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens

Mystery

 

James L’Etoile, Face of Greed

Catriona McPherson, The Witching Hour

Nonfiction

Sasha Abramsky, Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America

Bridget Quinn, Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Evelyn McDonnell, The World According to Joan Didion

Ethan Scheiner, Freedom to Win: A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People―And Olympic Gold

Terria Smith, Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance

Poetry

Anara Guard, Kansas Reimagined

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