Name: An Evening With Michelle Collins Anderson
Start: 2026-04-13T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Magic City Books

An Evening With Michelle Collins Anderson

Magic City Books is pleased to welcome back Michelle Collins Anderson for a free in-store event to celebrate her latest book, The Moonshine Women. This event will take place at Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer Street in the Tulsa Arts District.
“A feminine odyssey of legendary proportions, The Moonshine Women absolutely brims with hope, heat, and heart. Tender and gripping, this story is juicy all the way down to the last drop.” –Amy Jo Burns, author of Shiner
The Moonshine Women releases on March 31, 2026, and you can purchase a copy through Magic City Books ahead of time or at the event.

About the Book
Every batch of Strong moonshine has its own special flavor, thanks to the secret ingredients that matriarch Lidy Strong adds to the barrels of fermenting corn mash. Whether a bucketful of golden peaches, a ripe melon or juicy, jewel-toned berries, that extra “something something” is what makes the Strong “shine” so prized—and allows the family to survive after crop prices plummeted in the wake of the Great War.
Each of the Strong sisters, too, is distinct. The stoic and steadfast eldest, Rebecca, finds more comfort in nature than with people…until she finds a new home in the love she discovers for the woman who restores her health after a near-devastating accident. Middle sister Elsie is kind, beautiful—and itching for a life more thrilling than the farm can offer. And Jace, the bold and wild-hearted youngest, is known far and wide as “Shine,” a name that suits her fiery personality and flaming red hair as much as her innate skill with a still.
Their father, Hiram, has been drowning himself in grief and liquor ever since his wife died. But the moonshine business is unforgiving, especially with Prohibition agents turning up in every creek and holler. When tragedy strikes, it falls to the Strong women to keep the still running, the family together, and hope burning on the horizon.
From the Ozark mountains edged in oak and pine, to the outlaw paradise of Hot Springs, Arkansas—where gangsters like Al Capone line the bar at the Southern Club—the sisters’ quests for vengeance, healing, and love will drive them forward, in search of a future as transformative and powerful as the purest Strong moonshine.
About the Author
Michelle Collins Anderson is the USA Today bestselling author of The Moonshine Women and The Flower Sisters, which was a Missouri Library Association Literary Award winner, the Scenic Regional Library, Washington Public Library & East Central College Community Reads selection, and winner of the “Show Me” Award from the Missouri Writers’ Guild. She grew up on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks — a place and a way of life that has shaped her writing. A graduate of the University of Missouri with a MFA from Warren Wilson College, she previously worked in advertising and public relations, taught elementary school creative writing, and was an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri and Stephens College. She serves on the board of The Missouri Review and her Pushcart Prize-nominated short fiction has appeared in numerous publications. A mother of three, she lives with her family in St. Louis, Missouri. She can be found online at MichelleAnderson.me.