A Celebration of Books,
Writers & LIterary Excellence

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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 16, 2026

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Ariel M. Goldenthal

Featured Title: Grace in Love
Grace in Love
Grace in Love edited by Melissa Scholes Young

Grace in Love features forty fiction and nonfiction stories about love by women authors based in the DC region. This anthology is the 10th volume of the “Grace and Gravity” anthology series, a literary journal devoted to women writers. Over the past twenty years, more than 300 local women writers have been published through this series. The Grace and Gravity project was founded by Richard Peabody and is now edited by Melissa Scholes Young.

About Ariel M. Goldenthal

Ariel M. Goldenthal teaches English at George Mason University. Her fiction has appeared in numerous journals including Flash Frontier, The Citron Review, and MoonPark Review; the Washington Writers Publishing House anthology; and volume VIII of the Grace and Gravity anthology series. She also reviews books for Hippocampus Magazine.  

Author Schedule:

Venue(s):

Gertrude Stein Pavilion

Presentation Start Time:

10:15 am

Presentation End Time:

11:05 am

Signing Time:

11:15 am

Presentation Authors: