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Fireside Reading Series: Where We Come From

Fireside Reading Series: Where We Come From
Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library
    Wed., February 22 at 7:00 pm
    • Real-time Captioning
    • Captioning will be provided for the Zoom event. ASL interpretation available upon request.

Location

1558 W Minnehaha Ave
St. Paul, MN 55104
U.S.
651-642-0293
  • Accessible Entrance

Schedule and Tickets

The event is free, but online registration in advance is requested. For other questions contact The Friends at info@thefriends.org or 651-222-3242.

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About the Show

Feb. 22, 2023

The six-week Fireside Reading Series highlights the work of some of Minnesota’s finest writers who have published new work the previous year. Celebrate the final event in the current Hamline Midway Library building (or livestreamed via Zoom, with closed captioning available).

In this unique collaboration, four authors lyrically explore where they each come from—literally and metaphorically—as well as what unites all of us as humans. Richly layered illustrations connect past and present, making for an accessible and visually striking look at history, family, and identity.

We come from stardust / our bodies made of ancient elements. / We come from single cells / evolving over billions of years. / We come from place, language, and spirit. / And each of us comes from story.

Diane Wilson is an award-winning writer, speaker, and editor. Her work includes Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past (2006), Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life (2011), and The Seed Keeper (2021) which won the Minnesota Book Award. Her essays have been featured in many publications, including We Are Meant to Rise; Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations; and A Good Time for the Truth. Wilson is a Mdewakanton descendent, enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation.

Sun Yung Shin is a Korean American poet, fiction writer, nonfiction writer, editor and educator. Her books include four collections of poetry: The Wet Hex (Coffee House Press, 2022); Unbearable Splendor (Coffee House Press, 2016, Minnesota Book Award winner); Rough, and Savage (Coffee House Press, 2012); and Skirt Full of Black (Coffee House Press, 2006, Asian American Literary Award). Her poetry has been supported with fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Residency, the Archibald Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She lives in Minneapolis.

Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist and author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015) and Dream Country (Dutton, 2018), young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards. Gibney teaches writing at Minneapolis College . A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow, her new book explores themes of transracial adoption through speculative memoir (Dutton, 2023). She lives in Minneapolis.

John Coy is the author of young adult novels, the 4 for 4 middle-grade series, and nonfiction and fiction picture books including Hoop Genius, Game Changer, Their Great Gift, Dads, and If We Were Gone. He has received numerous awards for his work including a Marion Vannett Ridgway Award, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor, a Bank Street College Best Book of the Year, and the Burr/Warzalla Award for Distinguished Achievement in Children’s Literature. John lives in Minneapolis.

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