What is the responsibility of a storyteller when recounting trauma, injustice, or loss? This panel brings together three authors who explore the fragile line between memory and reality, and how personal and collective histories shape our understanding of the world.
| Where: | Commons 105 / Chemistry (Seats 217, Wheelchair accessible) |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Koffler/Commons (following presentation) |
| Genre: | Fiction / Literature |
| Moderator: | Jessica Braithwaite |
Brandon Hobson's novel "Where the Dead Sit Talking" was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. He has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the UCROSS Foundation. He teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma....
T Kira Māhealani Madden is a diasporic Kanaka 'Ōiwi, Native Hawaiian, writer and author of the acclaimed memoir "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls," which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the Lambda Literary Award....
Thrity Umrigar is the bestselling author of nine novels, including "Honor," which was a Reese's Book Club pick, as well as four picture books and a memoir. A former journalist, she has contributed to The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer....
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