B.K. Jackson presents Relative Strangers: An Anthology, with guest readers

P&T Knitwear is pleased to host a reading for contibuting writers of Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship edited by B.K. Jackson. Readings include the editor herself, along with Kama Einhorn, Brian Gresko, Lisa Grunberger, Laura Jenkins, and Christine Wolf.

Doors open at 6:30pm with the reading starting closer to 7:00pm. Come early and grab a drink from the !

Tickets and books are available both eventbrite and at the door.

ABOUT THE READERS
Kama Einhorn is an Emmy-winning Sesame Street writer and developer of children's media. She’s written more than 60 books for children and teachers, published by Scholastic, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins, as well as a wide variety of multimedia content for The New York Times, Nickelodeon, Best Friends Animal Society, and The Humane Society. Kama holds a master's degree in literacy education from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Brooklyn. Visit her at kamaeinhorn.com.

Brian Gresko is a writer, illustrator, and literary journalist based in Brooklyn. Brian co-founded and directs Writing Co-Lab, a teaching cooperative, and is the co-host of Pete’s Reading Series, Brooklyn’s longest running live literary venue. Brian’s latest book is You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing and Creativity, which you can learn more about at briangresko.com.

Lisa Grunberger Temple University professor Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American artist. Her poetry book, For the Future of Girls, was nominated for an Eric Hoffer Independent Book Award. A widely published poet and essayist, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, The Southern Review, Newsday, and Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture and Heritage (ELJ 2025). Her play, ALMOST PREGNANT (Next Stage Press), about Jewish identity, motherhood and assisted reproductive technologies, premiered at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She’s working on a memoir called Me and My Makers: A Memoir of Genes, Jews and Love.

Laura Jenkins has been a journalist for more than three decades. She spent the first 10 years of her career in the music sector, writing features and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and various online publications. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English, Writing and Rhetoric from St. Edwards University in 2010, she pivoted to literary and lifestyle features, book reviews, travel writing, and editorial photography. She’s working on a memoir. Find her at www.laurajenkinswriter.comand https://spillitall.substack.com/

Christine Wolf is a trauma-informed writing coach, instructor, and developmental editor shaped by her own reckoning with family history. A DNA test in midlife revealed a previously unknown sibling, shattering the family story she had lived inside and forcing confrontations with secrecy and silence. That rupture reshaped her understanding of truth and now informs her work with writers navigating buried histories. She teaches expressive writing for emotional healing to individuals, communities, and in university and workplace settings, and is at work on a memoir of sisterhood lost and found. She is the author of Politics, Partnerships, & Power. www.christinewolf.com [Her headshot credit goes to Lynn Trauttman.]

B.K. (Kate) Jackson is a developmental editor, a certified book coach, and a journalist who’s contributed to HuffPost, The Los Angeles Times, The Sun, SurvivorLit, Whale Road Review, Hippocampus Magazine, WIRED and more. She earned a BA and an MA from UCLA. Kate is the founder and editor of Severance (severancemag.com), a magazine and community for adoptees and individuals who’ve discovered misattributed parentage. She’s revising a memoir about maternal abandonment and family secrets. She lives in Milford, Pennsylvania. Find her at www.bkjacksonwriter.com and creativelyadhd.substack.com.

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Housekeeping notes:

• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.
• Doors open at 6:30pm, with the talk starting around 7:00pm.
• Books will be available for purchase at the event.
• Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear.
• If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!

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