Name: 4/11: Author Event - LeConté Dill - Reading, Discussion, & Book Signing
Start: 2026-04-11T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-11T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Booksweet

$4\/11: Author Event - LeCont\u00e9 Dill - Reading, Discussion, & Book Signing$

LeConté Dill, debut author of Soul Survivors, will join us for a book reading, discussion, and signing.
About this Event

LeConté Dill, debut author of Soul Survivors, will join us for a book reading, discussion, and signing.

About the Book

Soul Survivors is a collection of persona poems where three Black girl storytellers take the reader along journeys through Oakland, Atlanta, and Brooklyn, respectively. The book is informed by 15 years of the author’s community-engaged research in and with urban neighborhoods and the young people and organizations there.

About the Author

LeConté Dill was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, California. She is a storyteller, artist, educator, and scholar. She is the Director of Graduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University. LeConté’s work is critically informed by years of working in partnership with youth-serving, community- and arts-based organizations across the U.S. and South Africa. In her research, teaching, art, and advocacy, she aims to listen to and show up for Black girls, in particular, and is committed to documenting their strategies of wellness, healing, and resistance. Soul Survivors is her debut book.