Read Local: Pantea Amin Tofangchi and Judith Krummeck
Schedule
Mon Jul 08 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
12 N Market St, Frederick, MD, United States, Maryland 21701 | Frederick, MD
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Join us on July 8 at 6 pm at the Iguana to meet local author Judith Krummeck and Pantea Amin Tofangchi. They will be set up for a casual meet and greet event. Come learn about their books and get copies signed!This event is free and open to the public.
About the featured titles:
Glazed With War: Pantea Amin Tofangchi grew up in poetry, war, death, conflict, beauty, hatred, love, and censorship all at the same time. She was eight when the Iran‑Iraq War started and in senior high when it ended. Glazed With War is her story, her life, written from her childhood’s perspective.
The Deceived Ones: Displaced by the Russian invasion, Vira, carrying little but her precious viola da gamba, is a refugee in the Uniting for Ukraine program. When she is physically attacked soon after her arrival in the United States, the terrifying experience prompts her to hide in plain sight by passing as her twin, Sevastyan, until he is able join her.
About the authors:
Pantea Amin Tofangchi is an Iranian-American poet, writer, and graphic designer. She is the Art Director and graphic designer for Passager and Passager Books, Advertising Media Plus and The Business Monthly. She writes poems (in English), essays, stories and plays (mostly in Persian.) Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Little Patuxent Review, Welter, Atlanta Review—in which she won the International Merit Award—and other journals. She was selected as a finalist for The National Poetry Series’ 2016 and Georgia Poetry Prize 2018.
Judith Krummeck is the author of a memoir in essays, Beyond the Baobab, about her immigration from Africa to America, and the biographical memoir, Old New Worlds. Judith’s debut novel, The Deceived One, is forthcoming in Spring 2024, and her screenplay based on André Brink’s Booker-nominated novel, Philida, is in development. Judith holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Rumpus, Monkeybicycle, Past Ten, Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Style, Welter, Passager, and Eight Stone Press. She lives with her husband in Baltimore, Maryland, where she is the evening drive-time host for the classical music station, WBJC.
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12 N Market St, Frederick, MD, United States, Maryland 21701Event Location & Nearby Stays:
