Author Event! Katherine Packert Burke's "All Us Saints"
About this Event
Join us on Saturday, September 5th at 4pm as we host Katherine Packert Burke in conversation with Sylvia Vaccaro to discuss her new novel, All Us Saints. Signed copies of the books will be available for purchase.
About the book:
“All Us Saints is a gorgeous puzzle-box of a book, with the pieces carved from dread, sex, and secrets. Katherine Packert Burke has inventively inverted the psycho-killer, revealing something new and, once again, shocking.” – Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance and Detransition Baby
From the author of the "vibrantly, brilliantly alive" (James Frankie Thomas) Still Life, a haunted family reenacts the violent night their lives changed forever.
Exactly 19 years ago, in May of 1992, 17-year-old Roland St. Cloud fatally stabbed his twin sister Edna's three best friends. The slaying became instant tabloid fodder leading to a bestselling true-crime book and horror movie franchise. Each year on the anniversary of her family's undoing, Edna reenacts the murders. She is joined by her husband, Roger, the night's definitive chronicler; her younger sister Calla, a failed playwright who spends her days lost in online gaming; her younger brother James and his girlfriend Heather; and her teenage daughter Wren. Together, the St. Cloud family seals the windows and doors of the house and lights a grim candle. After their macabre theatrics there's nothing to do but wait for dawn, talk among themselves, and remember.
All Us Saints is a literary family drama packaged as a two-act play. Behind the curtain, Packert Burke unveils Roland's childhood as a closeted trans girl in the early 90s and offers a brilliant and scathing commentary on the cisgender gaze.
About the author:
Katherine Packert Burke is a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop in San Diego and the MFA program at the University of Alabama. Her next novel, All Us Saints, was published in May 2026; her first, Still Life, was published in 2024. She lives in Minneapolis, MN and is on Twitter @katpburke. Katherine is represented by Danielle Bukowski at Sterling Lord Literistic.
About the moderator:
Sylvia Vaccaro is a poet and writer living with her cat Dolly in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She received a degree in English literature and writing from the University of Rhode Island and her poetry has appeared in Peach Mag, OCCULUM, and Vagabond City Lit. Her work focuses on the intersections of queerness, pop culture, and religion. She is part of the Queer Writers Group at LitArts RI and a member of the three-time champion PVDHorror Trivia team, The Final Gays.
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