About this Event
Join us for a book launch party celebrating The Edge of Yesterday by Rita Woods! For this event, Rita will be in conversation with Ignatius Valentine Aloysius.
Greer Coffey is a principal dancer with a renowned Harlem company. Sebastian Coffey is an architect with a prestigious Midtown firm. The Coffey’s are the ultimate dream couple — until their world completely unravels. After Greer develops a career ending neurologic disorder, she finds herself back in her hometown of Detroit. Angry, lonely, her marriage buckling under the strain, she takes to aimlessly wandering the city streets. One night, she stumbles through a vortex, a portal through time that transports her back into 1925 Detroit, where she meets a handsome, charming doctor.
Rita Woods was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She received a BS in Microbiology from Purdue University before graduating from Howard University College of Medicine. She completed her training at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska and currently serves as Medical Director of a Wellness Center that provides care for members of one of the largest Trade Unions in the nation. Rita lives in suburban Chicago with her family, where she also serves as a Trustee on her local library board. She loves magic, books, history, coffee and traveling, not necessarily in that order. She is the author of the award-winning novel Remembrance and The Last Dreamwalker.
Ignatius Valentine Aloysius earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University, where he teaches writing and experimentation. He is the author of the novel Fishhead. Republic of Want, and his prose and poetry have appeared in or are forthcoming in Cold Mountain Review, Thanatos Review, Roi Fainéant Press, Another Chicago Magazine, Porter Gulch Review, and others. Ignatius is a host and curator of the long-running reading series Sunday Salon Chicago. He serves on the Curatorial Board at Ragdale Foundation, an arts residency in Lake Forest, Illinois, where he is also its newest Board of Trustees member.
Accessibility: This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. We have dimmable, non-fluorescent lights. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email [email protected] by no later than 14 days before the event. For other questions or access needs, please email [email protected].
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Women & Children First, 5233 North Clark Street, Chicago, United States
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