Please join us for What's New in Historical Fiction, a regular panel series featuring historical novelists with new and upcoming titles. Moderated by Colin Mustful, founder of History Through Fiction, this special panel includes:

Eric Z. Weintraub, author of South of Sepharad
Sara Ackerman, author of The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
Robin Oliveira, author of A Wild and Heavenly Place
Tara Karr Roberts, author of Wild and Distant Seas

Eric Z. Weintraub is a Los Angeles-based writer who received his MFA in Creative Writing from Mount St. Mary's University. His novella, Dreams of an American Exile, won 1888 Center's Plaza Literary Prize. His debut novel, South of Sephard, tells the story of Vidal ha-Rofeh, a Jewish physician devoted to his faith, his family, and his patients, who must make a difficult choice when, in 1492, all Jews are forced to either leave Spain or convert to Catholicism.

Sara Ackerman is a USA Today bestselling author who writes books about love and life, and all of their messy and beautiful imperfections. She believes that the world is in need of uplifting and heartwarming stories. Her novel, The Uncharted Flight of Oliva West, is an extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific, perfect for fans of Great Circle and Her Last Flight.

Robin Oliveira received an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the fiction editor for the literary magazine upstreet and a former assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. She was awarded the James Jones First Novel Fellowship in 2007 for her then novel-in-progress, The Last Beautiful Day. Her latest novel, A Wild and Heavenly Place, is an ode to the Pacific Northwest, to those courageous enough to chase the American Dream, and to a love so powerful it endures beyond distance, beyond hope.

Tara Karr Roberts is a freelance writer and editor, novelist, newspaper columnist, and college journalism and English instructor. She is a lifelong Idahoan who grew up along the Pend Oreille River and now lives in Moscow, Idaho, with her family. With Moby Dick as its starting point, Wild and Distant Seas is a beautifully written, and elegantly conceived novel that brings four remarkable women to life in a spellbinding epic all her own.