Megan Giddings!

We are always looking to expand and enrich the festival’s literary palette, and this year we’re especially excited to present some wonderful writers who work in genres new, or new-ish, to Unbound. One of our Saturday panels looks at how divination and witchcraft connects with the natural world around us, and we’re very excited to welcome one of the most acclaimed new authors in the fantasy field, Megan Giddings, to speak at that event.

Megan Giddings is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. Her novel, Lakewood, was published by Amistad in 2020. It was one of New York Magazine’s 10 best books of 2020, one of NPR’s best books of 2020, a Michigan Notable book for 2021, was a nominee for two NAACP Image Awards, and a finalist for a 2020 LA Times Book Prize in The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction category. Her second novel, The Women Could Fly , was named one of The Washington Post’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy novels of 2022, one of Vulture’s Best Fantasy books of 2022, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. More about her can be found at www.megangiddings.com.