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Breakfast with the Authors
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Come share a meal with some of our Guest Authors. Here is a chance to meet and chat with them on a personal level, get to know them, and learn more about their experiences in the world of writing. Besides meeting your table's author, all of them will address those gathered to respond to some of our questions related to the writing process. It should be a fun and entertaining experience!
| UPDATE: Desiree Cooper will be the Master of Ceremonies |
Detroit Free Press columnist Desiree Cooper has been twice-nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won national prizes for her fiction and is a founding member of the African American poetry program, Cave Canem. Her stories have been collected in Children of the Dream; Other People’s Skin: Four Novellas; and Detroit Noir.
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Cost: $20 (individual); $10 (children ages 6-10); free (children ages 0-5).
Place: Hussey Room, 2nd Floor of the Michigan League, 911 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
Click here to order your tickets. Limited space so please don't delay!
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Sponsorship generously provided by Michigan Radio - 91.7 FM Ann Arbor / Detroit, 104.1 FM West Michigan, & 91.1 FM Flint. |
Authors Attending:
| Heather Buchanan |
Heather Buchanan is the owner of Aquarius Press, an award-winning literary and academic publisher. She is the author of Dark River, a CBS Award nominee. A former COO for Wayne County Arts and VP of the Great Lakes Independent Publishing Association, Heather is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of Michigan - Dearborn. Her newest publication is It's Worth the Struggle: Inspiration for Contemporary Writers.
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| Katie Crouch |
Katie Crouch grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, where she attended Cotillion but was never a debutante. The city of Charleston and its unique traditions (and its bounty of men with pickup trucks) have provided inspiration for her fiction. She studied writing at Brown and Columbia Universities and now lives in San Francisco, but she returns home to Charleston often.
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| Anna Dewdney |
Anna Dewdney is a writer and illustrator of children's books, including the "Llama Llama" Series. Her new book, "Llama Llama Misses Mama", will be released this spring. Her appearance at the Book Festival will include a performance by the Ann Arbor Civic Ballet featuring original choreography to this new title. We are honored to have Ms. Dewdney here to narrate this performance.
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| Masha Hamilton |
Masha Hamilton is the author of three novels: Staircase of a Thousand Steps, The Distance Between Us, and The Camel Bookmobile. As a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and others, she has reported from the Middle East, Russia, Afghanistan and Africa. Most recently, she traveled to Kenya to hike into the bush with the real camel library.
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| David Kipen |
David Kipen is the new translator of Cervantes' The Dialogue of the Dogs (Melville House), and also author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History (again with the Melville House!). He doubles as the NEA's Director of Literature, where he directs The Big Read (www.nea.gov/bigreadblog/). His greatest accomplishment is still winning the Ann Arbor Bookfest Spelling Bee.
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| William Powers |
William Powers has freelanced for the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, The Sun, and Slate, among other publications. He is author of two memoirs: Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge (Bloomsbury, 2005) and Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization (Bloomsbury, 2006), which was featured on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross and in Newsweek and now in its second print run. His author website is: www.WilliamPowersBooks.com.
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| Gary Schmidt |
Gary Schmidt is an American children's writer of nonfiction books and young adult novels, including two Newbery Honor books. He lives on a farm in Alto, Michigan, with his wife and six children, where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, feeds the wild cats that drop by and wishes that sometimes the sea breeze came that far inland. He is a Professor of English at Calvin College.
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| Sharon Stanford |
Sharon M. Stanford is a former President of the Detroit Writer's Guild. She has been a feature writer for the Michigan Chronicle. In 2000, Sharon won Ebony Magazine's Grand Prize for her short story, "Fannie Lou's Dream." She has been published in "Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman's Soul." Sharon is currently Senior Editor for Aquarius Press in Detroit, Michigan.
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| Colson Whitehead |
Colson Whitehead is a New York-based novelist. He is best known as the author of the 2001 novel John Henry Days. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the "Genius Grant." Whitehead has since produced four widely-acclaimed book-length works — three novels, and a meditation on life in Manhattan in the style of E. B. White's famous essay Here Is New York. Whitehead's newest novel, Sag Harbor, is to be published in April of 2009.
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| Sung Woo |
Sung J. Woo's short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney's, and KoreAm Journal. His debut novel, Everything Asian (2009), has received praises from Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist. His short story "Limits" was an Editor's Choice winner in Carve Magazine's 2008 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. His short film was an audience choice screening of the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival 2008. A graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from New York University, he lives in Washington, New Jersey. You can learn more at his website, www.sungjwoo.com.
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| Peter Yarrow |
As a member of the renowned trio, Peter, Paul, & Mary, Peter Yarrow has earned many gold and platinum awards and numerous Grammys, as well as an Emmy nomination for his animated TV specials based on Puff the Magic Dragon. Among the many honors bestowed upon him, Yarrow is most proud of the Allard K. Lowenstein Award, which he received in 1982 for advancing the causes of human rights, peace, and freedom. In an effort to combat school violence, Yarrow started Operation Respect, a program that teaches tolerance and respect to children in schools and camps. He is the author of the #1 best-selling Puff, the Magic Dragon picture book; The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Favorite Folk Songs and The Peter Yarrow Songbook: Sleepytime Songs.
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Questions? Call Kathy at (734) 369-3366.
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