Author Appearance

Bill Wright has written or contributed to seven books, and his photographs appear in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin, and the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

About The Whole Damn Cheese:

Joe Bax is a graduate of both the University of Houston and Texas A&M University and has authored several nonfiction articles. Joe received his bachelor's in American History and master's in Southern History with an emphasis on slavery and Reconstruction.

About James Loyd:

Mary Adkins is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the Atlantic. A native of the American South and a graduate of Duke University and Yale Law School, she lives in New York City with her family. She also teaches storytelling for The Moth.

About When You Read This:

Billy Copeland grew up on ranches in South Texas around Beeville and San Antonio. Yes, in the 40s and 50s there were still ranches close to San Antonio! He went to Northside High School and was President of the 1954 class. He was drafted into the army in November, 1954, and served two years in Germany. After the army he went to San Antonio College at night while working during the day.

Tim Johnston, a native of Iowa City, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Descent, as well as a young adult novel, Never So Green, and the story collection Irish Girl, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.

About The Current:

Jess Hagemann is an award-winning author and accomplished biographer. She lives in a quiet Austin neighborhood surrounded on three sides by cows. Headcheese is her first novel.

About Headcheese: