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.
Where: | Koffler Room 216 (Seats 89, Wheelchair accessible) ![]() ![]() ![]() |
When: | Sat, Mar 15, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm |
Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Tent (following presentation)
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Genre: | Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction |
Moderator: | Peter Williams |
Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of The Stonewall Foundation Fund at the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona |
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....
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....
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....