Join us Tuesday, May 17 at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading and conversation with June Gervais and Shawna Kay Rodenberg. June will be reading from her debut novel, Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair and Shawna will be reading from her memoir Kin. Together they will examine the art of memoir and storytelling. We welcome questions from the audience!
June Gervais grew up on the south shore of Long Island and holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has written for Big Fiction, Sojourners, Image Journal, The Missouri Review, The Common, Cordella, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere, and she was a Sustainable Arts Fellow at Rivendell Writers Colony. Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair is her debut novel.
Learn more at June’s website.
Purchase Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair here.
Shawna Kay Rodenberg is the author of Kin, a debut memoir deemed “essential reading” by the Washington Post and “gorgeously gritty” by Oprah Daily. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and her essays have appeared in Salon, the Village Voice, and Elle. In 2016, Shawna was awarded the Jean Ritchie Fellowship, and in 2017 she was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. A registered nurse for retired nuns, mother of five, and grandmother of two, she lives on a hobby goat farm in southern Indiana.
Learn more at Shawna’s website.
Purchase Kin here.
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