As covered in the Northern Kentucky Tribune, the Kentucky Book Festival will celebrate its 45th anniversary at Joseph-Beth Lexington on Saturday November 7th.
Authors
The line-up for 2026 includes:
- Children’s Authors:
- Nancy Allen
- Carlotta Berry
- Chris Demeropolis
- Amanda Driscoll
- Jeanette Fazzari Jones
- Tama Fortner
- Carla Gover
- A.W. Hamilton
- Kim Howard
- Katie Mazeika
- Susan Mills
- Carlin Robbins
- Jayne Moore Waldrop
- Robyn Wall
- Middle Grade Authors:
- P. Anastasia
- Caroline Brooks DuBois
- Izzy House
- Greg Howard
- Miriam Lightfoot
- Donna Sloane
- Jennifer Sommer
- Young Adult Authors:
- Lindsey Duga
- Kaitlyn Hill
- Mariama J. Lockington
- Jason Sanford
- Shannon Stocker
- Kristen O’Donnell Tubb
- Comic and Graphic Novel Authors:
- Rachel Elliott
- Danica Novgorodoff
- Shawn Pryor
- Stephen D. Sebree
- Fiction Authors:
- Noah Ashley Blooms
- Joe Bond
- Willie Carver
- CD Collins
- Elias Dorrin Eells
- Normandi Ellis
- Ann H. Gabhart
- Ellen P. Goff
- Shasta Grant
- Chris Helvey
- Silas House
- Abigail Keam
- Dwain Lee
- Erin Miller Reid
- Reva Russell English
- Melissa Scholes Young
- Julia Seales
- Meg Shaffer
- Natalie Sypolt
- Tom Thurman
- Marie Vibbert
- Stephanie Wagner Whetstone
- Poets:
- john compton
- Kari Gunter-Seymour
- Ian Hall
- Lennie Hay
- Melissa Jørgenrud Helton
- Julie Hensley
- Michael Johnathon
- Leatha Kendrick
- Clay Matthews
- Ricardo Nazario y Colón
- Preeti Parikh
- Andrew Preston
- Joe Survant
- Eric Scott Sutherland
- Marianne Worthington
- Justin Wymer
- Laverne Zabielski
- Nonfiction Authors:
- Dennis Carrigan
- Jennifer Chandler
- Jill Christman
- Kevin Cook
- Kevin Lane Dearinger
- Cicero M. Fain III
- Eric Gnezda
- Pauletta Hansel
- Emma Hudelson
- Dan Issel
- Tina Jackson
- Roger Jones
- John McCauley
- Jesse Montgomery
- Linda Hager Pack
- Marina Ubaldi Ritter
- Lucinda Zoe
- Anne Shadle
- Lenny Shulman
- Wes Swietek
- Richard H. Underwood
- Larry Vogt
- Maryjean Wall
- Meghan Waters
- Bob Willcutt
- Katrina Anne Willis
- Kathryn Witt
- Kristine Yohe
- Aimee Zaring
About the Kentucky Book Festival
The Kentucky Book Festival is organized by Kentucky Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Press for the 2026 Kentucky Book Festival
- October 29, 2026: Former Anderson farmer’s book featured at festival, The Anderson News
- October 25, 2026: Kentucky Book Festival celebrates 45 years of connecting readers and writers, Northern Kentucky Tribune (archive.is)