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 […]
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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 […]
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? 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 […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My most recent book of poetry is The Parting Glass, published by Madville Press in November of 2022 which won the 2021 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. My first book, This Gone Place, won the 2010 Weatherford Award for Poetry and a second […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce is a social and material culture history of the extraordinary ways in which Kentucky women and a few men have shaped a traditionally women’s art to such high standards that these […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? At my table you will find my most recent poetry book, Between Two Worlds, which was published by Act of Power Press in 2023. I will also have copies of Swing Set Confessional, a chapbook published by Act of Power Press in […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Five books: For Your Good Health, Drink Flowers: New and Collected Poems. This full-length collection includes poems written over four decades, exploring family, feminism, writing, nature, travel, and spirit. Poems are written in open and traditional forms, including pantoums, sonnets, villanelles, […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’LL STOP THE WORLD is my debut novel, about a modern teen who finds himself inexplicably whisked back to the year 1985, one week before the mysterious deaths of his grandparents. There, he teams up with an ‘80s teen to attempt to […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Goodnight Little Bunny is my second published book. This bedtime story that is just right for winding down the day with a joyful hopping bunny. A bunny that not only eats all his food but shows exactly how to get ready for […]