Tucson Festival of Books

National Book Awards: The Art of Ancestry


Join these 2024 National Book Award honorees to hear how they translated multigenerational family stories and mythologies into new and distinct works of art. Moderated by Ruth Dickey, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, this session is presented in partnership with the NBF.


Panelists
'Pemi Aguda

’Pemi Aguda is an MFA graduate from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her writing has been published in Granta, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, and other publications, and has been awarded the O....

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Josh Galarza

Josh Galarza, a longtime Montessori educator, writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and is a visual artist specializing in printmaking and book arts. His work explores male gender performance, queer issues, body liberation and Chicano studies....

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m.s. RedCherries

RedCherries received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Arizona State University College of Law. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and lives in New York City....

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Books:
Ghostroots
Stories
'Pemi Aguda
Fiction / Literature
W. W. Norton, Incorporated
May 2024
ISBN 9781324065852
224 pages
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The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky
Josh Galarza
Teen
Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
July 2024
ISBN 9781250907714
320 pages
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Mother
m.s. RedCherries
Poetry
Penguin Publishing Group
July 2024
ISBN 9780143137832
144 pages
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