About this Event
Join us at Village Well Books & Coffee for a panel on creative non-fiction!
LA authors Amy Shimshon-Santo and Jackson Bliss join Laura Gaddis and Liz Kellebrew to read from and discuss their different books of lyrical nonfiction published by one of the West Coast's best indie presses. The authors will discuss topics like intergenerational storytelling, mixed-race and hybrid identity, pregnancy loss, love, and ancestral history.
About the participants:
Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo is a writer, teacher, and culture maker who believes that creativity is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation. She was born on Tovaangar land in current day Los Angeles, and has immediate family in the Southwest, the Middle East, and South America. She is the author of four books of poetry, a book of essays, and has edited three anthologies in the U.S. and special editions in Brazil and Nigeria. Her art and community work nourish inclusive cultural ecologies for planetary justice.
Jackson Bliss is the winner of the 2020 Noemi Book Award and the best-selling, mixed-race author of Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, Amnesia of June Bugs, & Dream Pop Origami, which was a 2022 Book of the Year by Independent Book Review. He lives in LA.
Liz Kellebrew is a Pacific Northwest writer known for her poetry, short fiction, and essays. She received The Miracle Monocle Award for Innovative Writing, and her work has appeared in public art installations and literary journals such as About Place, Room, and Catamaran. Learn more at lizkellebrew.com.
Laura Gaddis is an author/educator from Oxford, Ohio. Her memoir Mosaic (Unsolicited Press) delves into loss, motherhood, and parenting a child with disabilities. She has been published in Thin Air Magazine, 805 Lit + Art, Stonecoast Review, and elsewhere. More can be found at www.lauragaddis.com.
Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo is a writer, teacher, and culture maker who believes that creativity is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation. She was born on Tovaangar land in current day Los Angeles, and has immediate family in the Southwest, the Middle East, and South America. She is the author of four books of poetry, a book of essays, and has edited three anthologies in the U.S. and special editions in Brazil and Nigeria. Her art and community work nourish inclusive cultural ecologies for planetary justice.
Jackson Bliss is the winner of the 2020 Noemi Book Award and the best-selling, mixed-race author of Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, Amnesia of June Bugs, & Dream Pop Origami, which was a 2022 Book of the Year by Independent Book Review. He lives in LA.
Liz Kellebrew is a Pacific Northwest writer known for her poetry, short fiction, and essays. She received The Miracle Monocle Award for Innovative Writing, and her work has appeared in public art installations and literary journals such as About Place, Room, and Catamaran. Learn more at lizkellebrew.com.
Laura Gaddis is an author/educator from Oxford, Ohio. Her memoir Mosaic (Unsolicited Press) delves into loss, motherhood, and parenting a child with disabilities. She has been published in Thin Air Magazine, 805 Lit + Art, Stonecoast Review, and elsewhere. More can be found at www.lauragaddis.com.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Village Well Books & Coffee, 9900 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, United States
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