What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find my latest book an illustrated children book written in both English and Spanish Lullaby for Maddie published in November 2022 by Shadelandhouse Modern Pres, as well as, my bilingual memoir Cradled by Skeletons a Life in Poems and Essay […]
Jay McCoy
Mariposa: Opioid Abatement Poems tells two parallel stories, one a harrowing descent of a beloved adult daughter into heroin addiction and homelessness, the other a quietly hopeful mother's journey toward a heroic self-discipline.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? At our table at the Kentucky Book Festival, visitors will discover a captivating world where learning meets imagination. We’ll have our delightful picture book series, “Cranium Critters,” prominently displayed. This series introduces children and adults alike to the fascinating wonders of […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I write contemporary fiction for teens and tweens— books that deal with the messiness of growing up, but with a joyful and nuanced lense. My latest book is a Young Adult novel-in-verse called FOREVER IS NOW. It follows Sadie— a queer, poet-activist living […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Stealing, a novel set in the 1950s and compared to To Kill a Mockingbird and the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by the New York Times. When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, selected by Booklist as one of the […]
A collection of poems written by a teacher who served in public schools for twenty-five years, Mama Tried (Broadstone Books) takes the reader on a journey through her experiences as an educator and as a mother.
Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2. Nic Stone Chaos Theory After graduating from Spelman College, Nic Stone worked extensively in teen mentoring and lived in Israel for a few years before returning to the US to write full-time. The #1 New […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table visitors will find my debut novel, Welcome, Caller, which follows a sarcastic trans bartender named Malcolm and his ragtag group of friends. Malcolm forms a crush on an anonymous radio show host—unaware that this host may or may not […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Chaperone tells the story of 17-year-old named Stella Graham who decides she wants to escape from New America, a near-future society where adolescent girls are not allowed to go out in public without a government-assigned chaperone. Whom do you […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Language of Kin was just published on July 11, 2023. This novel deals with a fundamental ethical conflict between two zookeepers, Kate and Marc, over how to help a young, terrified chimpanzee acclimate to the (fictional) Dayton, OH, zoo. Eve had […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Vermilion Sunrise is a Young Adult science fiction book set on a distant planet. Stranded on an island surrounded by unknown seas, a group of teenagers fight to establish the first human colony beyond our solar system. As a former middle […]
A freak car accident in 1960s rural North Carolina puts in motion moments of grace that bring redemption to two generations of women and the lives they touch.