Strike A Chord: The Symphony of Music and Writing with B. Elizabeth Beck,  Steven L. Jones and Tammy Oberhausen in conversation with Scott Whiddon

Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2.

Elizabeth Beck

Dancing on the Page

Elizabeth Beck is a poet who writes fiction and the founder of two poetry series: Teen Howl and Poetry at the/ˈtā-bəl/ in Lexington, Kentucky. Her fifth collection of poems, Dancing on the Page, a memoir in verse, is an homage to the soundtrack of the process of a poet becoming herself.

Steven L. Jones

Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record

Kentucky-born son of a choir director and violinist, Steven L. Jones is an artist, writer, musician, and former instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first book, Murder Ballads Old and New is a graveyard stroll that’s equal parts musicological, psychosocial, and genealogical, excavating facts and exploring stories that reveal larger contexts while mapping the lineages of songs and themes, forebears, and ancestors. 

Tammy Oberhausen

The Evolution of the Gospelettes

Tammy Oberhausen has an MFA in writing from Spalding University and lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Her debut novel, The Evolution of the Gospelettes, is a compelling exploration of family ties and rifts, faith and doubt, and holiness and hypocrisy in a changing world.