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Spring 2026 Writers to Watch
This season’s buzzy adult and YA fiction debuts, including stories of a sex worker assassin, a New York cab driver accused of murder, and a Latina teen poet, are all about controlling the narrative.
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Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Yosha Gunasekera
The author’s love for 'My Cousin Vinny’ and her work for the Innocence Project inspired ’The Midnight Taxi’ (Berkley, Feb.), a mystery about a cabbie wrongly accused of murder.
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Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Petra Lord
A lifelong fantasy reader, the author began what would become her highly anticipated debut YA novel 'Queen of Faces' (Holt, Feb.) as a side project while studying TV writing.
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Writers to Watch: Spring 2026: Bsrat Mezghebe
“The Eritrean story is the greatest story never told,” says the author of ‘I Hope You Find What You Are Looking For’ (Liveright, Feb.), about the country’s 30-year-war for independence and its diaspora.
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Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Woody Brown
The nonspeaking author's debut novel, 'Upward Bound' (Hogarth, Mar.), is set in a cash-strapped adult daycare center for autistic and disabled adults.
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Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Kirsten King
The antiheroine of 'A Good Person' (Putnam, Mar.) goes to extreme, some might say stalkerish, lengths to turn the man she’s been hooking up with into her fiancé.
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Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: René Peña-Govea
In the author's debut novel, 'Estela, Undrowning' (Quill Tree, Mar.), a Latina student at an elite public high school finds herself at the center of a citywide debate about merit-based admissions.
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Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Cassie Miller
The author’s debut YA rom-com, 'Meet Me Under the Lights' (Viking, Mar.), is a love letter to small towns and two of the things their residents hold dear: baseball and community theater.
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Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Anna Monders
After reading an article in the 'MIT Technology Review,' the author, an alumna of the school’s planetary science master’s program, found the spark for her dystopian middle grade novel, ‘Tested' (Aladdin, Mar.).
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Spring 2026 Writers to Watch: Ama Ofosua Lieb
Growing up in Ghana, the author of 'Goldenborn' (Scholastic, May) loved listening to stories about Anansi, the trickster spider of legend.
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