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Carleen Brice
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In addition to Nebraska authors, the fest has hosted novelists, short-story writers, nonfiction writers, and poets from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Portland, Washington DC, and Topeka (and beyond). The (downtown) omaha lit fest has received mention in such international publications as Library Journal, Poets & Writers, and Prestige Hong Kong, and was spotlighted as "a particularly good time to visit" Omaha in the New York Times Style Magazine. The Omaha World-Herald cited the fest as "another strong indication of Omaha's continuous cultural growth and expansion of diverse activities" and an "impressive part of the landscape." Mentions of the lit fest's contribution to Omaha culture were included in profiles of noted Omaha sons Kurt Andersen and Alexander Payne in cover stories in The Reader. The (downtown) omaha lit fest is funded in part by the Alan and Marcia Baer Foundation.
