2026 The Signature Dish
Monday, September 28 - 5:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Mount St. Helens Ballroom
Tickets Required
An evening for national and Northwest-known authors to meet with booksellers while enjoying this literary feast. Authors will rotate through ten tables of booksellers, spending about eight minutes with each group.
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Lucinda Berry is a former psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma. She has written multiple bestsellers reaching millions of readers worldwide. The Golden Child tells a story of favoritism, ambition, and the lethal cost of family loyalty. She lives with her son in Los Angeles.
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Author photo: Campbell
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Betsy Gaines Quammen | This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories that Shape America| Torrey House Press Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West and True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America. This Haunted Land investigates some of America’s most enduring legends and uncovers how ghost stories can illuminate some of the most unsettling parts of history. With curiosity, a touch of skepticism, and an open-hearted willingness to learn from the living and the dead, Betsy Gaines Quammen takes readers on a journey into haunted towns, forgotten lives, and abandoned places. She lives in Montana with her husband and a bunch of scaly and furry rescued critters.
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Tiffany Hammond is a writer, disability advocate, and proud autistic mother raising two incredible autistic sons. Through storytelling she uses her lived experiences to challenge systems, celebrate neurodivergence, and make room for all the messy middles in between. How Do You Spell Belong? is a picture book centering an Autistic young boy and celebrating friendship and inclusivity.
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Author photo: Zack Dezon
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Jordan Harrison | Miss Archer | HarperCollins/William Morrow Jordan Harrison, Miss Archer, HarperCollins / William Morrow
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Kara LaReau, Licorice , Scholastic Press
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Sam Ligon | Miller Cane: A True & Exact History | Slant Books Samuel Ligon, Miller Cane: A True & Exact History, Slant Books
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Kirk Lombard | The Shadow Stream | Enchanted Lion Books Kirk Lombard, The Shadow Stream, Enchanted Lion Books
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Author photo: Chris Von Holle
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Loren Long, The Boy & The Island, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group / FSG Books for Young Readers
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Nina Michiko Tam, Tastes Like Seeing God, Penguin Random House/ Pamela Dorman Books
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Leonard Pitts Jr. | The Angry House | Kensington Publishing Corp Leonard Pitts Jr., The Angry House, Kensington Publishing Corp
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Emily Poole | Cascade of Life: An Artist's Seasonal Guide to the Wild Northwest | Skipstone / Mountaineers Books Emily Poole, Cascade of Life: An Artist's Seasonal Guide to the Wild Northwest, Skipstone (Mountaineers Books)
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Katee Robert, The Tarot Trials, Tor Books
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Deborah Santana | Loving the Fire: Choosing Me, Finding Freedom Broad Book Press Deborah Santana, Loving the Fire: Choosing Me, Finding Freedom, Broad Book Press
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Author photo: Heather Young
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Matthew Sullivan| The Midnight Game Hanover Square Press Matthew Sullivan, The Midnight Game, Hanover Square Press
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David Williams | Range of Ice and Fire: A Human and Natural History of Washington's Cascades | Mountaineers Books David Williams, In the Range of Fire and Ice: A Human and Natural History of Washington’s Cascades, Mountaineers Books
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Wm. Paul Young | Return to the Shack |Apriary Wm. Paul Young, Return to the Shack, Apiary
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Author photo: Chona Kasinger
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Kristin Millares Young | Desire Lines | Red Hen Press Kristen Millares Young is a Cuban-American investigative journalist, essayist, and novelist. Her novel, Subduction was named a staff pick by The Paris Review. In Desire Lines, a lyric memoir-in-essays, Millares Young excavates her matrilineage and the submerged histories of the divine feminine, blending personal narrative, mythology, and cultural critique to reclaim women’s voices, maternal power, and selfhood across generations. Ms. Magazine selected Desire Lines as a “Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2026.”
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Author photo: Adrienne Michaels
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Mathilda Zeller | It Looks Like You in the Dark | Nightfire Mathilda Zeller, It Looks Like You in the Dark, Nightfire
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