Once again, Storyfort is featuring award winning and up-and-coming authors from across the nation to curate five days of literary goodness at Treefort.
With riveting panels, intimate storytelling, one of a kind readings, and absorbing experiences: join us as we dive into the literary world along with these exceptional authors.
With a mix of up-and-comers and literary heavy hitters, Storyfort keeps the pages turning all festival long at Treefort Music Fest this March.
All Storyfort events are included in a 1-day or 5-day Festival Pass AND all Storyfort events are free and open to the public,
Note that some events may be inside a venue that is 21+ or have content that is not suitable for young children.
Presenting the Storyfort authors of 2026:
New York, NY
Sam Lipsyte is the New York Times-bestselling author of NO ONE LEFT TO COME LOOKING FOR YOU (2022), FRIEND OF THE POD (2022), HARK (2019), THE ASK (New York Times Notable Book for 2010), HOME LAND (New York Times Notable Book for 2005 and winner of the Believer Book Award) as well as THE SUBJECT and VENUS DRIVE. His books have been translated into several languages, including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Dutch. A Guggenheim Fellow, his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Noon, n+1, Harper’s, Bookforum, The New York Times and Best American Short Stories.
Portland, OR
Kimberly King Parsons is a National Book Award-nominee and the bestselling author of We Were the Universe, a Dakota Johnson Book Club pick ranked #2 on TIME Magazine’s Best Books of 2024. The New York Times praised the debut novel as “a profound, gutsy tale of grief’s dismantling power” and it was a best book of 2024 in Elle, Oprah Daily, Marie Claire, Marie Claire UK and many others. Parsons’s debut collection, Black Light, was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, and the Texas Institute of Letters Fiction Award. An Oregon Book Award-winner, Parsons teaches fiction at Pacific University and lives in Portland with her family.
Charlottesville, VA
Henry Hoke is the author of five books, most recently the novel Open Throat, finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He co-created the performance series Enter>text in Los Angeles, and edits humor at The Offing. The First Girl in Hell, a western, is coming in 2027.
Brooklyn, NY
Stephanie Wambugu is the author of the novel Lonely Crowds (Little, Brown and Company 2025) and an editor at Joyland Magazine. Her work has appeared in The Drift, The Nation, Bookforum, frieze and Granta. She lives and works in New York.
Portland, OR
Justin Taylor is the author of four books of fiction and a memoir. His work has been in the New Yorker, forever, Harper’s, and best American short stories. He’s the director of the MFA program at Sewanee, the university of the South.
New York, NY
Megan Nolan is an Irish writer based in New York. She is the author of the novels Acts of Desperation and Ordinary Human Failings, which have been translated into fourteen languages.
Maynard, MA
Zac Smith is the author of 50 Barn Poems (Clash Books, 2019) and Everything Is Totally Fine (Muumuu House, 2022). His writing has appeared in publications such as X-Ray, The End, Hobart, Forever Mag, Scaffold, HAD, and others. He also serves as managing editor of Back Patio Press.
New York, NY
Anika Jade Levy is a writer from Colorado. She is a founding editor of Forever Magazine. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review, Vogue, GQ, Playboy, Interview Magazine, Nylon and elsewhere. She teaches in the Literature program at Columbia. Flat Earth is her first novel.
Brooklyn, NY
Sophie Kemp is the author of Paradise Logic. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the Paris Review, Granta, GQ, and American Vogue. She teaches at Columbia and has attended Yaddo. She lives in Brooklyn.
