Tucson Festival of Books

The Stories We Inherit


Join authors Aiden Arata and Patricia Moore for a laid-back chat about growing up between worlds, figuring yourself out, and rewriting the parts of your past that don’t quite fit anymore.


Panelists
Aiden Arata

Aiden Arata is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in publications including BOMB, Mask, NYLON, The Rumpus, The Fanzine, Wonderland, and Hobart, as well as NDA: An Autofiction Anthology. Arata’s visual and video work was showcased in Kunsthalle Bremen’s bicentennial exhibition “Generation*" and has been featured on platforms including Vice, The Cut, Harper's Bazaar, Mashable, NBC, Seventeen, and The Washington Post....

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Patricia Moore

Patricia Bradby Moore is a proud multi hyphenate whose talents span writer, speaker, connectivity coach, voiceover artist, runner, cyclist, scuba diver and amateur ukulele player. In 2025, Patricia published her debut memoir, "Blackinese: Reflections on Race and Ethnicity from a Biracial Millennial," sharing her deeply personal musings about identity and belonging as a biracial American in hopes of inspiring others to embrace every facet of who they are....

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Books:
You Have a New Memory
Aiden Arata
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Grand Central Publishing
January 2025
ISBN 9781538767597
240 pages
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Blackinese: Reflections on Race and Ethnicity from a Biracial Millennial
Reflections on Race and Ethnicity from a Biracial Millennial
Patricia Moore
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
804 Press
August 2025
ISBN 9798992999808
202 pages
The author will make this book available for sale at the Indie Author Pavilion during the Festival.