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We’re thrilled to welcome this outstanding lineup of authors to the inaugural Kentucky Book Festival: Louisville Edition!

Saturday, June 14, 2025
Paristown, Louisville

Unless otherwise noted, all authors listed here will be signing books throughout the day. Don’t miss your chance to meet your favorites, discover new voices, and celebrate the joy of reading with us!

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Scheduled authors include…

David Arnold / I Loved You in Another Life
Wes Blake / Pineville Trace
Gwenda Bond / The Frame-Up
Wes Browne / They All Fall the Same
Ken Clay & Michael Jones / The Soulful Sounds of Derbytown
Deedee Cummings / How to Dream
Kathleen Driskell / Goat-Footed Gods
Lynnell Edwards / The Bearable Slant of Light
Daniel Gifford / Benefactors of Posterity: The Founding Era of the Filson Historical Society: 1884-1899
Julie Hensley/ Five Oaks
Bob Hill / Out Here: Essays and Encounters from the Heart, Soul, and Left Field
Wesley Houp / Strung Out Along the Endless Branch
Brigid Kaelin / Lakeside
Sarah Landenwich / The Fire Concerto
Linda LaPinta / Savory Memories
Amy Larocca / How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at A Time
Dwain W. Lee / Plausible Deception
J. H. Markert / Sleep Tight
Lee Martin / The Evening Shades
Pat Williams Owen / The Crossroad
Shawn Pryor / The Great Explorer of Mammoth Cave: A Graphic Novel Biography of Stephen Bishop
Andrew Shaffer / Literary Cats Coloring Book
Meg Shaffer / The Lost Story
Georgia Green Stamper / Small Acreages: New & Collected Essays
Shannon Stocker / Stronger at the Seams
Michael Tackett / The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party
Emma Talbott / Not Far From Freedom
Brittany Thurman / Opal Watson: Private Eye
upfromsumdirt / To Emit Teal
Crystal Wilkinson / Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Alex Willan / Mermaids Are the Worst!
Steve Wilson & Laura Lee Brown / Hermitage Farm

…with music from the McLain Family!