AUTHOR EVENT: Regina Porter and De'Shawn Winslow

Regina Porter discusses her second novel The Rich People Have Gone Away with De’Shawn Winslow, who is also celebrating the fifth anniversary of his debut novel In West Mills. Join us for an intimate conversation with the authors as Regina discusses the process of writing The Rich People Have Gone Away and they both share more about their respective publishing journeys.

Regina Porter is an award-winning playwright and author of The Travelers, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for political fiction. A graduate of the MFA fiction program at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her writing has been published in the Harvard Review, Tin House, and the Oxford American. De'Shawn Charles Winslow is the author of In West Mills, a Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner, an American Book Award recipient, a Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction winner, and a Los Angeles Times Book Award, Lambda Literary Award, and Publishing Triangle Award finalist. He was born and raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Host or Publisher Liz’s Book Bar