Tucson Festival of Books

All Parents Matter


Parenting can be a complex journey that doesn’t end when children leave the nest. Navigating the challenges, including adoption, illness, grief, and unconventional parenting roles, are part of the twists and turns in the adventure of parenting.


Panelists
Simmons Buntin

Simmons Buntin is the author of Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far and the poetry collections Riverfall and Bloom; as well as co-author of Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places and co-editor of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy....

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Julie Fingersh

Julie Fingersh is a writer, journalist and, most recently, the author of "Stay: A Story of Family, Love & Other Traumas." Julie’s personal essays, editorials, and reported stories have appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, Businessweek, Grown and Flown and more....

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Marianne Novy

Marianne Novy taught English Literature at the University of Pittsburgh for 40 years. In her early 30s, she met her birthmother and seven half-brothers. Her latest book is "Adoption Memoirs," which discusses 45 books published by birthmothers, adoptees and adoptee parents....

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Books:
Satellite
Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far
Simmons Buntin
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Trinity University Press
January 2025
ISBN 9781595343116
274 pages
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Stay
A Story of Family, Love, and Other Traumas
Julie Fingersh
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2024
ISBN 9781538195284
264 pages
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Adoption Memoirs
Inside Stories
Marianne Novy
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Temple University Press
June 2024
ISBN 9781439925904
262 pages