LeTonia Jones is a life-long Kentuckian who has used the alchemy of arts and activism for over 25 years. The poems in Black Girl at the Intersection speak from the intersection of social justice and personal heartbreak.
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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 […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find Mama Said, my debut collection of linked short stories published by West Virginia University Press, displayed proudly on my table–along with a few treats. Mama Said is set in Louisville, Kentucky amid the tail end of the crack epidemic […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America’s Legendary Racehorse Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book? Lovers of stories about hidden histories as well as horses, particularly racehorses, may be interested in […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Eleanor Robson Belmont, a Theatrical Life The woman who named the great racehorse Man o’ War was a brilliant stage actress with Kentucky connections and an independent spirit. She moved in fast circles, defining her own life with a fierce intelligence […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Creepy Kentucky is the follow-up to The Kentucky Book of the Dead, but with all-new material. It includes many documented stories about ghosts, strange deaths, body snatchers, people who predicted their own deaths, premature burials, and much more. Kentucky Book of the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table you will find my very first book, We All Count, along with posters and stickers that go along with the book. At my table you will of course find me, the author, but you will also find the […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll have the latest copy of my poetry chapbook The Vine Temple, which features poems about the Louisville bussing riots and the Cemetery for CSA Veterans in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. I’ll also have my award-winning collection Next Door to the Dead. […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I’ll be signing my latest book Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey, which is a brief biography of one of America’s first Black superstar athletes. Murphy was born enslaved in Bourbon County and lived most of his life […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The book Lonnie & Twyla Money – 50 years of Kentucky Appalachian Folk Art. This is a beautiful coffee table book with wonderful photography of their work, but it also tells the story of how the Moneys gave up farming to become […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Not Here to Stay Friends is a young adult romance about two best friends who unexpectedly end up spending their summer around a reality dating show! While one is a contestant being courted by the lead actor of her favorite TV show, […]