A DNA test in 2018 revealed some shocking family news—my biological father was NOT the man who raised me. As I processed this information, I wrote poems about family connections. Then I realized that as an adoptive parent, my sense of family is much broader than DNA connection. Grafted Tree emerged from these experiences.Come to […]
A book launch for “Crossing Divides: My Journey to Standing Rock” by Vernon Benjamin with guest speakers, book readings, and videos of the 2016 anti-pipeline protests.Speakers will include Wes Gillingham of Catskill Mountainkeeper and Chase Iron Eyes of the Lakota People’s Law Project. The late Vernon Benjamin is best remembered for his two-volume “History of […]
Independent Press (IPPY) Award-winning author and Saratoga County resident Jacqueline Boulden launches her second novel at Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga Springs at 6 pm on January 30, 2024. Family Ties Family Lies is about a woman who returns to her hometown in upstate New York to care for her ailing mother, and discovers a web […]
Harry Truman Loev is haunted by a childhood so traumatic, he severed ties with his family and declared himself an orphan. When his father, a revered hero firefighter, dies two decades later, Harry is pulled by forces he can’t fully explain to confront his troubled past and seek answers. He spontaneously decides to travel from […]
Susan Oringel, a local writer and psychologist will be reading from her first full-length book of poetry, Carnevale, at the Book House in Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany on Saturday, April 6 at 3 p.m.Carnevale is a journey in poetry through the lives and deaths of her parents–who both grew up in Coney Island in the […]
Julia Alvarez is one of America’s most acclaimed and best-loved fiction writers and poets. Her novels about the Dominican and Dominican-American experiences have not only inspired new generations of Latinx authors, they have also helped to enlarge the map of world literature. Her magical new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories (April 2024), explores what happens to […]
To celebrate Troy Night Out and National Poetry Month and kick off Word Fest, poets from across the region will gather at the Tech Valley Center of Gravity to sign and sell their books.
Join MochaLisa’s Caffé to celebrate our local authors and all things books on April 27th!Authors will be on-hand throughout the day, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. S.A. Kazlo Paul E. May J.T. McGee Joseph R.R. Templin Keith Willis 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Hannah Booke Joe Di Bari Peggy […]
Local author Dee Holloway & graphic designer Caitlin Cadieux workshop their novella LITTLE NOTHING. Dee and Caitlin will discuss their process as well as celebrate the publication of their book.LITTLE NOTHING is an alt-history novella steeped in folklore, unsettling landscapes, and everyday magic. Dee Holloway is a librarian, author and Floridian in upstate New York. […]
Author Linda Mary Wagner will sign copies of her new book, Rear-View Reflections on Radical Change: A Green Grandma’s Memoir and Call for Climate Action.In Rear-View Reflections, Wagner presents a compelling collection of essays, nonfiction stories, and poems crafted between 1972 and 2022. Drawing on her experiences and insights, Wagner delivers a powerful call for […]
Signing and Reading:Time and Place * West and East focuses on the two regions of the country where we’ve spent our lives, its overarching subject the inspiring and troubling literal and metaphorical relationships between the natural and human worlds. Nature is described, portrayed, interpreted in a variety of forms with a variety of views from […]
If you like to attend author events to ask questions and buy autographed books, imagine having several authors in one place!The Upper Hudson Chapter of Sisters in Crime and the Rensselaer Public Library invite you to join several area authors for a discussion on what makes them and their novels tick! Their award-winning novels cover […]
