Burlington Book Festival 2009

The 5th Annual State of the Onion Address

Join editors and writers of the world's most popular humor publication for an evening of scathingly funny commentary . . .

Joe Garden

Joe Garden is one of this country’s preeminent and most prolific comedy writers. He is currently a features editor at . . .

Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard first came to national attention with the publication of The New York Times cover story, “An Eighteen . . .

Tony Hoagland

Tony Hoagland is the author of three volumes of poetry: Sweet Ruin, winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Donkey . . .

Baron Wormser

Baron Wormser is the author of seven books of poetry and a poetry chapbook. He is the co-author of two books about . . .

Don Bredes

Don Bredes, novelist, essayist and screenwriter, was born in New York City. He received his MFA in Fiction from the . . .

Brad Kessler

Brad Kessler is the author of the recent memoir Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding and the Art of . . .

Daniel Lusk

Daniel Lusk’s recent books include Kissing the Ground: New & Selected Poems and Onion River: Six Vermont Poets. His . . .

Amanda Boyden

Amanda Boyden is the author of two novels. Pretty Little Dirty, her first, is in its fifth printing. Her second, . . .

Julie Otsuka

Told from multiple points of view, When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka chronicles the heartbreaking evacuation . . .

Carol Potter

Carol Potter’s fourth book of poems, Otherwise Obedient (2007) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in GLBT . . .

David Goodman

David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist, a contributing writer for Mother Jones and the author of . . .

Blake Bailey

Blake Bailey is the author of Cheever: A Life, recently hailed by the book editors of Amazon.com as one of the “Best . . .

Emerging Poets: Christopher Lawless

Christopher Lawless, a recent graduate of Champlain College, has had his work featured in “Willard and Maple,” “Down . . .

Emerging Poets: Jillian Towne

Local poet Jillian Towne reads from her work as part of the Emerging Poets segment of the 2009 Burlington Book . . .

Rita Dove

Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and . . .

David Cavanagh

David Cavanagh’s books of poems include Falling Body, released this year by Salmon Poetry of Ireland, and The . . .

Rita Murphy

Rita Murphy writes middle grade and young adult fiction. In 1999 her first novel, Night Flying, won the Delatorre . . .

Stephen Huneck

Stephen’s philosophy is “Do what makes you happy.” “I love my dogs,” he says, “so I portray them in my art.” Stephen . . .

Harry Bliss (2009)

Harry Bliss is a children’s book illustrator, an internationally syndicated cartoonist, cover artist for The New . . .

Mary Azarian

Mary Azarian, to whom the 2009 Burlington Book Festival was dedicated, grew up on a market garden farm in northern . . .

Castle Freeman Jr.

Castle Freeman, Jr. is the award-winning author of three previous novels, a story collection and a collection of . . .