Tucson Festival of Books

Girlhood: Memory and Myth


Join Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Joy Harjo and Susan Orlean as they explore the path from girlhood to self‑defined womanhood, where memory, art and ancestral stories shape identity.


Panelists
Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. She is a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a NAACP Image Award....

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Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo, renowned poet, performer, and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. Harjo has written 10 books of poetry, several plays, prose, and children's books, and two memoirs....

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Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is The New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including "The Library Book," "Rin Tin Tin," "Saturday Night," and "The Orchid Thief," which was made into the Academy Award–winning film, Adaptation....

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Books:
The Flower Bearers
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Random House
January 2026
ISBN 9780593730201
336 pages
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Washing My Mother's Body
A Ceremony for Grief
Joy Harjo
Poetry
Random House
April 2025
ISBN 9781984861368
80 pages
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Joyride
Susan Orlean
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
October 2025
ISBN 9781982135164
336 pages
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