Join us outside People's Book for our third annual Local Author Bazaar! Authors will be available from 10am-2pm to chat about their newest publication, sign, and sell their books. Let's show up for this great line-up of DMV authors! Bios below.
Seble Lemma Dessalegne is the author of Bond Beyond Borders, inspired by her experiences living and working across multiple cultures. Through her work, she helps people better understand cultural differences, build stronger relationships, and feel more confident navigating diverse and international environments.
Hillary Gonzalez (they/she) is a Baltimore based queer, disabled, and AuDHD poet, activist, birder and wildlife photographer, whose work explores themes of nature, identity, and healing. They are the Vice President of the Baltimore City nonprofit, Sacred Parks and Waterways–an organization dedicated to preserving Baltimore City's parks and watershed for future generations, and the authors of Seasons (2025), and the ecopoetry collections, Wild Unfelt World (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, April 2026), and Where the Osprey Nest (Palewell Press, August 2026). Their poems have been published in numerous publications, including South Broadway Press, Canid Press, and in anthologies by open_in_newBi+ Book Gang, open_in_newYellow Arrow Publishing, Loblolly Press’ anthology: open_in_newUnderstory, a fundraising anthology for the victims of Hurricane Helene, The Body Archive by Cosmic Daffodil Journal, open_in_newIn Praise of Despair, an anthology for disabled artists and writers by Beyond the Veil Press, and their visual poem, "The Sounds of Spring," was accepted by The Maryland Film Festival (2026), in their Vertical Shorts category.
Chris Pickett is the founder and former leader of Indivisible Montgomery, a grassroots activist organization located in Montgomery County, Maryland. He is an activist working in science policy and is an avid runner. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and two daughters.
Teaching ESL and writing, Ruth Ticktin encourages sharing stories. She’s an author: Around & Around Poetry Chapbook (Bottlecap Press 2024;) Was Am Going, Recollections—Poetry & Flash (NewBayBooks 2022;) co-editor: Psalm Contemplation, 2020; co-author: What's Ahead? (ProLingua Learning 2013;) and more— open_in_newhttps://rticktindc.wixsite.com/ruth
Dominick Rabrun is a Haitian-American author and voice actor. His first book, Vèvè-Punk: Birth of the Dream, is a collection of Afrofuturist short stories set in a world where Haiti is a dominant political superpower. In this universe, spirits have replaced corporations, death is currency, and the afterlife itself has become a corrupted, tech-fueled machine.
Sill is a SFF author from Severna Park, a genderqueer parent, suburban chicken farmer. Their stories often come from vivid dreams with fight scenes and recurring characters. Expect complex characters, witty prose, trauma informed dark themes and cozy queer-normative found family in the middle. Their work geeks out into neuroscience, genetics, psychology, and mycology.
L.M. Sypher is an author, artist, and research historian from Alexandria, Virginia. They write on themes of mythological adventure, and can be found sampling every coffee shop within a 20-mile radius.
Libertroph is a collection of art and stories about white anti-racist organizing efforts past and present. It is a reckoning with what white culture is and what exists beyond it. And it is an invitation for more white people to take up the life-giving work of anti-racist organizing.