Leslie Gray Streeter and Milton Kent at The Baltimore Book Festival

We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 13-14. On Sunday, September 14th, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!

At 3pm, join us to hear from Leslie Gray Streeter, journalist at The Baltimore Banner and author of -- the charming story of a successful journalist who returns to her hometown just as her biggest mistake becomes headline news. It's a vibrant, funny, and heartfelt novel about facing the past, and its secrets, head-on. It'll be the perfect way to spend the afternoon at the Book Festival, as Leslie Gray Streeter appears in conversation with veteran journalist and Professor Milton Kent.

Leslie Gray Streeter is an award-winning journalist and columnist for the Baltimore Banner. She is the author of the memoir Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “Journey” in the Title, the cohost of the podcast Fine Beats and Cheeses, and a frequent speaker on grief. She is also a slow runner, an amateur vegan cook, and a fan of Law & Order. Leslie lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her son, Brooks. For more information, visit www.lesliegraystreeter.com.

Professor Milton Kent is a veteran of Baltimore and Maryland journalism. The 1981 recipient of the Baltimore Sun Minority Journalism Scholarship, Professor Kent graduated from the University of Maryland in 1985.

Professor Kent began a long association with the Baltimore Sun in 1985, serving as the Evening Sun's Howard County reporter for 2 ½ years before joining the paper's features department as an entertainment writer in 1988. The following year,he began covering men's and women's college basketball for the Evening Sun, concentrating on the Maryland men's and women's teams. He continued covering college basketball when the writing staffs of the Evening and Morning Suns merged in 1991.

From there, he covered the Orioles for three seasons before becoming one of the nation's first fulltime sports media critics for parts of six years. He has covered the NBA until 2004, he launched a high school sports column, which he wrote until he left the Sun.

Professor Kent joined the staff of AOL Fanhouse, an online sports operation, covering sports media and women's basketball, until operations ceased in 2011. He then joined the faculty at Morgan State, University, where he has taught until the present day.

In addition to writing for various platforms, including Sports Illustrated.com and TV Guide, Kent has hosted "Sports At Large," a weekly commentary program airing on WYPR (88.1 FM) since 2002. Kent and his wife, Glenda, live in Baltimore County.

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