Tucson Festival of Books

Rewriting the Story


Join authors Aiden Arata, Caroline Paul and Maris Kreizman for a dynamic discussion on truth, identity and resilience. These three writers dig into what it takes to stop letting old stories or outside pressures define you and how to rewrite your life on your own terms.


Panelists
Aiden Arata

Aiden Arata is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in publications including BOMB, Mask, NYLON, The Rumpus, The Fanzine, Wonderland, and Hobart, as well as NDA: An Autofiction Anthology. Arata’s visual and video work was showcased in Kunsthalle Bremen’s bicentennial exhibition “Generation*" and has been featured on platforms including Vice, The Cut, Harper's Bazaar, Mashable, NBC, Seventeen, and The Washington Post....

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Maris Kreizman

Maris Kreizman is an essayist and columnist for Literary Hub. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, and Esquire....

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Caroline Paul

Caroline Paul is the author of eight books for kids and adults, including The New York Times bestseller "The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure." Her latest book is "Why Fly: Seeking Awe, Healing, and Our True Selves in the Sky," that explores the art, history, and psychology of aeronautics....

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Books:
You Have a New Memory
Aiden Arata
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Grand Central Publishing
January 2025
ISBN 9781538767597
240 pages
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Why Fly
Seeking Awe, Healing, and Our True Selves in the Sky
Caroline Paul
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Bloomsbury USA
February 2026
ISBN 9781639734993
224 pages
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I Want to Burn This Place Down
Essays
Maris Kreizman
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
HarperCollins
July 2025
ISBN 9780063305847
176 pages
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