BookWoman's 49th Anniversary Party + Open House
Schedule
Sun, 15 Dec, 2024 at 02:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
5501 N Lamar Blvd, Ste A105, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78751 | Austin, TX
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Join us for readings and recitations by local authors as we celebrate our 49th year! We’l start the readings with some thrills and chills- hopefully not too much like The Nightmare Before Christmas... leading us down this path will be novelists Amy Gentry, Jaime DeBlanc, and Brendon Vayo
Next enjoy poetry from Katherine D. Oldmixon Garza, Prudence Arceneaux, Liliana Valenzuela, and Ma Xochitl; and then we'll close out with an exploration of Texas history around immigration and border politics with Jessica Goudeau.
There will be light refreshments served through the day, and enjoy 2 extra hours of shopping. Copies of all readers' books available at the event for signing.*
*If you are unable to attend, give us a call and we can reserve a signed copy for you to pick up after the event.
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PART 1:Texas Novelists
Amy Gentry, Bad Habits
Amy Gentry is the author of the feminist thrillers Good as Gone, Last Woman Standing, and Bad Habits, as well as Boys for Pele, a book of music criticism in the 33 1/3 series. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in numerous outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, Salon, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Austin Chronicle. Her interests include cake decorating and horror films, and her favorite movie is The Women (1939). She holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago, where she wrote her dissertation on miniatures and modernism, and lives in Austin, Texas.
Get Amy’s newest novel, Bad Habits, here. https://ebookwoman.com/book/9780358408574
Jaime deBlanc, After Image
Jaime deBlanc holds an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin. Her short fiction has been published in Catapult, Juked, and Post Road, and she has been the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Lighthouse Works Fellowship. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she coaches fiction and memoir writers.
Get Jaime’s first novel, After Image, here. https://ebookwoman.com/search?q=Jaime%2BdeBlanc
Brendon Vayo, Girl Among Crows
Brendon Vayo was born in Okinawa, Japan, and now lives in Austin, TX. He has a wonderful wife and three children. The kids keep him awake at night, so he hopes his books do the same to you.
Get Brendon’s novel, Girl Among Crows, here. https://ebookwoman.com/book/9780744306590
PART 2: Texas Poets
Katherine D. Oldmixon Garza, Life Afterlife
Katherine D. Oldmixon Garza is the author of Life Afterlife / A Book of the Hours, and the chapbook Water Signs (No. 67 in the New Women’s Voices series). Her poems and photographs appear in online and print magazines and anthologies. The director of the Poetry at Round Top Festival, held annually in the rolling hills between Austin and Houston, Katherine has served as a senior poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly, past president of Austin Poetry Society, and as a regular moderator for Texas Book Festival. She has guest-edited special issues of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Qarrtsiluni, and the Ilanot Review.
A poet and scholar, Katherine holds a PhD in English from UT-Austin, MFA in Creative Writing from University of New Orleans, and MA and BA degrees in English from University of Houston. At historic Huston-Tillotson University, she is professor emerita, formerly professor and chair of English.
Get a copy of Katherine’s book of poetry, Life Afterlife, at the event.
Prudence Arceneaux, Liberty & Dirt
Prudence Arceneaux, a native Texan, is a poet who teaches English and Creative Writing at Austin Community College, in Austin, TX. Her work has appeared in various journals, including The Academy of American Poets’ Poem- A- Day, Limestone, New Texas, Hazmat Review, Texas Observer, Whiskey Island Magazine, African Voices and Inkwell. She is the author of two chapbooks of poetry– DIRT (awarded the 2018 Jean Pedrick Prize) and LIBERTY.
Get Prudence’s two books of poetry, Liberty & Dirt, here. https://ebookwoman.com/book/9781646625222
https://ebookwoman.com/book/9781635342482
Liliana Valenzuela, Codex of Love: Bendita ternura
Born and raised in Mexico City, Liliana Valenzuela is an adopted tejana and a reverse Chicana. She is the author of the poetry collection Codex of Love: Bendita ternura, which received an honorable mention in the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award contest of the 2022 International Latino Book Awards. She has also published the chapbook Codex of Journeys: Bendito camino and several artisan chapbooks. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in Edinburgh Review, Huizache, Indiana Review, Tigertail, ANMLY, and other publications. She has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Dairy Hollow, and the Tasajillo Residency. Valenzuela is also the acclaimed Spanish-language translator of works by Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Cristina García, Dagoberto Gilb, John Olivares Espinoza, and many other writers. In 2006, she received the Alicia Gordon Award for Word Artistry in Translation. Her most recent translation is the poetry book Mujer sin vergüenza by Sandra Cisneros (Vintage Español, 2022). A CantoMundo and Macondo fellow, she’s a longtime Austin resident and a University of Texas at Austin alumna.
Get Liliana’s latest book of poetry, Codex of Love: Bendita ternura, here. https://ebookwoman.com/book/9781733809269
Ma Xochitl- Bio is forthcoming
PART 3: Texas Histories
Jessica Goudeau, We Were Illegal
Jessica Goudeau’s first nonfiction book, After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and a Christopher Award. It was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice book, World Magazine’s “Understanding the World” Book of the Year, a Library Journal “Best Social Science Book of the Year” and one of Chicago Public Library’s “Best Books of 2020.” Her second nonfiction book, We Were Illegal, was named one of “19 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer” and an Editor’s Choice book by the New York Times and an NPR “Book of the Day,” and received a starred review from Kirkus.
spent more than a decade working with refugees in Austin, Texas and was the co-founder of Hill Tribers, a nonprofit that provided supplemental income for Burmese refugee artisans for seven years until it successfully ended when the last artisan found full-time employment. She is the co-host and producer, with Christine Renee Miller, of “The Beautiful and Banned,” a weekly conversational podcast about banned books, plays, and films now and throughout history. She has a PhD in literature from the University of Texas, served as a Mellon Writing Fellow and Interim Writing Center Director at Southwestern University, was a Visiting Professor at Sewanee School of Letters, and teaches Creative Nonfiction at Wilkes University.
Get Jessica’s latest book, We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family’s Mythmaking and Migration, here. https://ebookwoman.com/book/9780593300503
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Where is it happening?
5501 N Lamar Blvd, Ste A105, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78751Event Location & Nearby Stays:
