The DSM Book Festival brings 4 diverse authors to the March event

Meet four authors this spring when the DSM Book Festival takes over Capital Square on March 25. The one-day festival from the Greater Des Moines Partnership brings workshops, things for the kids to do, hands-on projects, food, drink and live music, as well as authors talking about their books.

Here’s a look at the four authors who will be at the book festival:

Chris Bohjalian

New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian, who wrote “The Flight Attendant,” will be one of the headlining authors at the 2023 DSM Book Festival. Bohjalian authored 24 books that have been translated into 35 languages, three movies and an Emmy-nominated TV series. His 2018 novel, “The Flight Attendant,” is now an HBO Max TV series starring Kaley Cuoco, and follows the ways an entire life can change in one night. Bohjalian will speak at 2 p.m.

Sequoia Nagamatsu

The author of the bestselling novel “How High We Go in the Dark” and the story collection “Where We Go When All We Were is Gone” will speak at 10 a.m. during the book festival. His work has also appeared in publications such the Iowa Review, Lightspeed Magazine and “One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories.” Nagamatsu graduated from Grinnell College and now teaches creative writing at Saint Olaf College and the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program. He is originally from O’ahu, Hawaiʻi, and the San Francisco Bay area and currently lives in Minneapolis.

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NoViolet Bulawayo

The author wrote “Glory” and “We Need New Names,” which was recognized with the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Pen/Hemingway Award, the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature and the National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Fiction Selection. It was a selection for the All Iowa Reads list for 2023. Bulawayo will speak at noon.

Sarah Penner

Bestselling novelist Sarah Penner kicks off the 2023 Authors Visiting in Des Moines (AViD) series as headlining author of the DSM Book Festival. Penner’s beloved debut novel, "The Lost Apothecary," was an instant New York Times bestseller, remained on bestseller lists for more than three months and has been translated into more than 40 languages. Her much-anticipated follow-up novel, "The London Séance Society," comes out on March 7. The book is a feminist gothic whodunit story steeped in mystery and suspense, set in 1870s Europe, about two women on the hunt for justice who embrace the art of conjuring the dead. She speaks at 4 p.m.

Three local publishers — Bookpress Publishing, Ice Cube Publishing and Meadowlark Press — will be on hand at the festival as well.

Learn more at DSMbookfestival.com and watch for more information in coming weeks regarding the full schedule of activities.

This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: DSM Book Festival brings Chris Bohjalian, Sequoia Nagamatsu, NoViolet Bulawayo