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Book Festival @ the Roberts Library: 2017 Guest Authors

2017 Featured Author

   Jennifer Probst   

          

Jennifer Probst wrote her first book at twelve years old. She bound it in a folder, read it to her classmates, and hasn’t stopped writing since. She took a short hiatus to get married, get pregnant, buy a house, get pregnant again, pursue a master’s in English Literature, and rescue two shelter dogs. Now she is writing again.

She makes her home in Upstate New York with the whole crew. Her sons keep her active, stressed, joyous, and sad her house will never be truly clean.

She is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy contemporary romance. She was thrilled her book, The Marriage Bargain, was ranked #6 on Amazon's Best Books for 2012, and spent 26 weeks on the New York Times. Her work has been translated in over a dozen countries, sold over a million copies, and was dubbed a “romance phenom” by Kirkus Reviews. She is also a proud RITA finalist. Her first nonfiction book for writers, Write Naked, will be issued by Writer’s Digest March 2017.

She loves hearing from readers. Visit her website for updates on new releases and her street team at www.jenniferprobst.com.

2017 Featured Author

Marsha Mathews

Marsha Mathews is an American poet and a Professor of English at Dalton State College, in Dalton, Georgia. Her new book, Growing Up with Pigtails, presents both narrative and lyrical reflections on that sometimes troubling, sometimes triumphant experience of growing up, girl. Marsha’s earlier books differ in theme. In Hallelujah Voices (Aldrich Press, 2012), Marsha, herself a former United Methodist minister, writes of an Appalachian church congregation as its members and pastor experience pivotal moments. Marsha’s love poems, Sunglow & a Tuft of Nottingham Lace, won the Red Berry Editions 2011 Chapbook Award and was published in a hand-bound collector’s edition. Finally, her first chapbook, Northbound Single-Lane, portrays a woman moving on from a failed marriage, to travel and raise her children. This book was released in 2010 by Finishing Line Press.

The recipient of the Orlando Prize (AROHO) for Flash Fiction, Marsha has published both poetry and fiction in literary periodicals, such as Appalachian Heritage, Broad River Review, Greensboro Review, The Los Angeles Review, Pembroke Magazine, Raleigh Review, and anthologies, such as Literature Today. What’s next? For several years, Marsha has been passionately researching and writing her first full collection, Beauty Bound. Beauty Bound explores the extremes people will go in pursuit of beauty and the entrapment of its allure.