Join us Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading and conversation with Lauren Kay Johnson and Matt Gallagher. Lauren will be reading from her memoir, The Fine Art of Camouflage, and Matt will be reading from his novel, Daybreak, forthcoming in February 2024. Registration is required! Please register (below) to receive the Zoom link.
Lauren Kay Johnson is a former military public affairs officer and Afghanistan veteran. Her memoir, The Fine Art of Camouflage, chronicles her coming-of-age against the backdrop of war—beginning with her mother's Army career and deployment in support of Operation Desert Storm when Lauren was seven years old, and later with her own service. Lauren's essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Glamour, Yale Medicine Magazine, CONSEQUENCE magazine, Drunken Boat, Pleiades, and several anthologies. Her writing and interviews have been used in the creation of dance and theater productions, and she has lectured at schools, conferences, and veteran centers across the country, including the Association of Writers and Writing Programs national conference, the Boston Book Festival, and the University of Iowa. She is a writing consultant with GrubStreet, an editor at the Wrath-Bearing Tree, and a former editor-in-chief of Redivider. Lauren lives with her husband and twin daughters outside Seattle. By day, she is a Program Director at IGNITE Worldwide, a non-profit that aims to combat the gender imbalance in STEM fields. By night, she writes (with the help of her fat tabby cat) and eats copious amounts of ice cream.
The Fine Art of Camouflage can be purchased here.
Matt Gallagher is the author of the novels Empire City, Youngblood, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Daybreak, his latest novel, is due out next year with Atria.
Daybreak can be pre-ordered here.
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