Welcome to the 2025 Tucson Festival of Books event schedule! We are excited about this year's presenting authors and have placed the schedule into a compact, color-coded grid to organize your visit to the Festival.

Schedule Of Events:

Arizona Daily Star Stage
(Seats 250)

10:00 am - A Meeting of the Mindset
Michael Norton
11:30 am - She Had a Shut and Open Case
Melissa Ludtke
1:00 pm - Angels from Montgomery
Leonard Pitts
2:30 pm - I'm Not Crazy, You're Crazy
Richard Grant
4:00 pm - All in the Family
Craig Lancaster

Student Union North Ballroom
(Seats 670)

10:00 am - Some Like It Hot
Sandra Brown
Rachel Howzell Hall
Casey McQuiston

11:30 am - Maureen Dowd: A Star Among Stars
Maureen Dowd

1:00 pm Read It, Feel It
Lisa Genova
Luis Alberto Urrea

2:30 pm - Lights! Camera! Authors?
Edward Burns
Lou Diamond Phillips
Craig Lancaster

4:00pm - True Gretch: Gretchen Whitmer
Gretchen Whitmer

Student Union Gallagher Theater
(Seats 337)

10:00 am - Divided We Stand
Amanda Becker
Joe Conason
Jonathan Turley

11:30 am - Searching for the Truth
Renée DiResta
Jack Fairweather
Clay Risen

1:00 pm - Is Meaningful Progress Likely?
Jonathan Alter
David Rohde
Michael Tackett

2:30 pm - Influencers Change Politics, Elections
Paola Ramos
Elle Reeve
Juanita Tolliver

4:00pm - Reconciling in Trump's World
Jonathan Alter
Catherine Bracy
Katherine Stewart

Student Union Tucson Room
(Seats 110)

10:00 am - Reimagining the Past
Jillian Cantor
Tracey Enerson Wood
Lynda Loigman

11:30 am - Crimes in Past Tense
Dianne Freeman
Juliet Grames
Rosemary Simpson

1:00 pm - Love, Loss, and Second Chances
Marcela Fuentes
Crystal Hana Kim
Nanda Reddy

2:30 pm - Is Something Out There?
Lynn Cahoon
Kate Alice Marshall
Jo Perry

4:00pm - The Weight We Carry
Betsy Lerner
Margarita Montimore
Jamie Quatro

Student Union Kachina(Seats 100)

10:00 am - The Writer's Life
Mary Lou Falcone
Paul Lisicky
Joel Waldman

11:30 am - Exposing Family Secrets
Freda Epum
Julie Fingersh
Sarah LaBrie

1:00 pm - The Nature of Things
Nell Greenfieldboyce
Steve Hoffman
Mimi Zieman

2:30 pm - Forging Infinite Realms
Mai Corland
Kel Kade
Seanan McGuire

Student Union Santa Rita(Seats 110)

10:00 am - Where in the World?
Beth Morrison
Boyd Morrison
Paige Shelton
Iona Whishaw

11:30 am - How Books Can Save Us
Evan Friss
Zibby Owens
Suzanne Scanlon

1:00 pm - Where Justice Prevails
Christina Estes
Mary Keliikoa
Erica Ruth Neubauer

2:30 pm - Coming of Age in Challenging Times
Jennifer Coburn
Nancy Johnson
David Wright Faladé

4:00 pm - They Dared to Speak Up
Jane Botkin
Chris Enss
Michele Feeney

Student Union Sabino(Seats 87)

10:00 am - From Memoir to the Silver Screen
Bill Carter

11:30 am - The Old West
Steve Friesen
John Langellier

1:00 pm - Writing Roots in Tucson
Karen Brennan
Elhadj Ndoye
Jamie Quatro

2:30 pm - Tomorrow's Bestsellers Today
April Darcy
Kateri Kosek
D.A. Navoti

4:00 pm - Remarkable Planet
Theodore Fleming
Neil Shubin

Student Union Kiva(Seats 100)

10:00 am - Intergenerational Feminist Poetics
Rosa Alcalá
Jenny Irish

11:30 am - Reshaping American Poetry
Jose Hernandez Díaz
Octavio Quintanilla
Danez Smith

1:00 pm - Sonic Constellations
Amber McCrary
Saretta Morgan
Leo Romero

2:30 pm - Voicing the Archives
Denise Low
Gabriel Palacios

4:00 pm - Acts of Defiance
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Perry Janes
Farid Matuk

UA Campus Store(Seats 250)

10:00 am - A World Apart
T. Jefferson Parker
Luis Alberto Urrea
Willy Vlautin

11:30 am - From the Page to Your Living Room
Anne Hillerman
Craig Johnson
Thomas Perry

1:00 pm - National Book Awards: The Art of Ancestry
'Pemi Aguda
Josh Galarza
m.s. RedCherries

2:30 pm - Love in Spite of it All
Amal El-Mohtar
Constance Fay
Rebecca Thorne

4:00 pm - Beyond Pronouns
Zoe Bossiere
Oliver Radclyffe

Koffler Room 204(Seats 300)

10:00 am - Forces to be Reckoned With
Meryl Gordon
Juanita Tolliver
Sandra Velasquez
Mimi Zieman

11:30 am - Smarter Than the Bad Guys
David McCloskey
Megan Miranda
Barbara Nickless

1:00 pm - Forensics in Mysteries
Jennifer Dornbush
Ramona Emerson
Tess Gerritsen

2:00 pm - Unexpected Legacy of History
Jason De León
Lee Hawkins
Tim Hernandez

4:00 pm - Questionable Choices
Ali Hazelwood
Sonora Reyes
Neely Tubati Alexander
Casey McQuiston

Koffler Room 216(Seats 89)

10:00 am - The Future of Science Literacy
Leigh Ann Henion
Lynne Peeples

11:30 am - Unreal!
Jen DeLuca
Kimberly Lemming
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

1:00 pm - Workshop: How to Query Agents
Betsy Lerne

2:00 pm - Writing Past and Present
Bonnie Callahan
TJ Alexander
Adriana Herrera

Koffler Room 218(Seats 142)

10:00 am - Writing the Lives of Others: Crafting Compelling Characters
Jonathan Evison
R.O. Kwon
Kirsten Miller

11:30 am - Paths Taken: Women’s Lives, Choices, and Legacies
Jessica Elisheva Emerson
Marjan Kamali
Daniel Lavery

1:00 pm - A Family Affair
Penny Reid
Sarah T. Dubb
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

2:00 pm - The Ties That Bind
Maddie Norris
Rudy Ruiz
Joel Waldman

Culinary Stage(Seats 265)

10:00 am - Mastering Plant-Based Cooking
Joe Yonan

11:30 am - Effortless and Everyday Cooking
Carolina Gelen

1:00 pm - Breaking Traditions: Modern Mexican
Rogelio Garcia

2:00 pm - Pasta Grammar's Italian Kitchen
Harper Alexander
Evelina Santaguida

Modern Languages Room 350(Seats 318)

10:00 am - Worlds Beyond: Reimagining Reality
'Pemi Aguda
Mateo Askaripour
Nnedi Okorafor

11:30 am - Hey Swifties, Gilmore Girls & SNL Fans!
Ann Hood
Susan Morrison
Rob Sheffield

1:00 pm - Sweet Disasters: Turning Catastrophe into Chemistry
Tracy Wolff
Rachel Howzell Hall
Kimberly Lemming

2:00 pm - Familiar Faces
J.A. Jance
T. Jefferson Parker
Thomas Perry

4:00pm - The Natural World, Solitude, and the Human Spirit
Samantha Harvey
Eowyn Ivey
Julia Phillips

UA Mall Tent(Seats 250)

10:00 am - Robert Crais in Conversation
Robert Crais

11:00 am - Billy Collins, a Poet for the People
Billy Collins

1:00 pm - Lawyers, Lawmen, and the Lawless
William Kent Krueger
Phillip Margolin
John McMahon

2:00 pm - Loss and Longing Mysteries
Kyle Mills
Megan Miranda
Wanda Morris

4:00pm - Feeling Snarky
Rebecca Thorne
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
T. Kingfisher