Author Talk | Prose to the People

A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays, poems, and interviews by New York Times bestsellers Kiese Laymon, Rio Cortez, Pearl Cleage, and many more journalists, activists, authors, academics, and poets that offer deeper perspectives on these bookstores’ role throughout the diaspora, complete with an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni.

Books will be available for sale and signing.

Katie Mitchell is a storyteller and bookseller. Katie lives, works, and writes in Atlanta, Georgia. Her online and pop-up Black bookstore, Good Books, has been featured in The New York Times, NBC, NPR, PBS, and many other outlets. Katie is a Dorothy Porter Wesley fellow.

Moderating the talk will be Shaundra Walker. Shaundra serves as Dean of the University Library at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she is also a Professor of Library Science. She earned a PhD in Educational Leadership from Mercer University and holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Studies from Clark Atlanta University and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Spelman College. Shaundra is co-editor of The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening.

Host or Publisher Gwinnett County Public Library