Moderators
Kelly J. Ford is the author of Cottonmouths, one of Los Angeles Review’s best books of 2017 for “its ability to go beneath the surface, striking impressive depths of character and setting.” Her shorter work can be found in Black Heart Magazine, Post Road Magazine, and others...
Read More →
Presenters
Writer Desmond Hall was born in Jamaica. His debut YA novel, Your Corner Dark, is set on the unforgiving streets and majestic mountains surrounding Kingston and tells the story of Frankie, an ambitious high school student who has just earned a ticket out with a full ride scholarship...
Read More →
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne is a novelist, essayist, and journalist whose reports on public health have appeared in the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, the Boston Globe Magazine, and GlobalPost. A former editor at the Atlantic, she is a graduate of both Amherst College and GrubStreet’s...
Read More →
Marjan Kamali is a novelist and teacher whose work has been both anthologized and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. A graduate of UC Berkeley with an MBA from Columbia University and an MFA from New York University, Kamali is a teacher of writing at GrubStreet and former adjunct business...
Read More →
Saturday October 19, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Emmanuel Parish Hall
15 Newbury St, Boston, MA, 02116