Speaker highlight: Wholehearted Writers Week day 2!

Hi, writers!

We’re so excited to share more details about our speakers related to each conference theme!

On day 2, our featured theme will be Texts at Play: All about drafting, reading in and outside your genre(s), and the conversations we join by writing. Get to know our speaker who will be sharing about this topic:

Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. Her fiction has won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Edgar Award, and the Minnesota Book Award. In Minneapolis and Saint Paul, she is probably best known for her election guide. She has a spouse, two grown kids, and three cats (the number of cats is subject to change without notice). You can find Naomi online at naomikritzer.com or on Bluesky as @naomikritzer.bsky.social. Her next book, Obstetrix, will be coming out in June 2026.

Read Naomi’s Hugo-winning short story “Cat Pictures Please” online at Clarkesworld!

Buy her latest novel, Liberty’s Daughter, from Bookshop.org or order it from your local bookstore!

Until next time,

Wholehearted Writers Team