5/17: "True Crime" Author's Night w/ Featured Authors

Join us on 5/17 from 7-8pm for a "True Crime" authors night! The featured authors will be sharing their work with us. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow creatives in safe environment.

While this event is free, your RSVP is helpful to our planning!

About the authors -

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Petra Kuppers is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist. She will read from her fourth poetry collection, (Wayne State University Press, 2024), which investigates true crime and ecopoetry at the level of the soil, and focuses on the cases that became well-known as the Michigan Murders. She teaches at the University of Michigan and is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow.

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Christine Hume’s fifth book is a collection of essays addressing sex offenders and women’s bodies, (Ohio State University Press, 21st Century Essays Series, 2023).Her collaborative text image book with 2023 Guggenheim Photo Fellow, Laura Larson, All the Women I Know, is coming out soonish with Saint Lucy Books. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University.

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Antoinette M. James, a resilient advocate and author of , shares a captivating journey of triumph through adversity. As a determined single mother pursuing her dream of becoming a Detroit police officer, she faces corruption within the blue code of silence under Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's reign. Battling personal trauma, difficult relationships, family challenges, financial setbacks, and a menacing stalker, Antoinette's tale of strength and resilience is truly inspiring.

Event Venue

Booksweet, 1729 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, United States