Black Writers Read with Shannon Luders-Manuel

RESCHEDULED: Saturday, April 17, 6:00pm
Please join us for the next episode of Black Writers Read featuring memoirist and essayist, Shannon Luders-Manuel. Shannon will read from her essay, “Rediscovering My Father”, which was published in the New York Times. Shannon will also share insight into her memoir and her other work. Go to the Valley Society Facebook event to participate.

Bio: Shannon Luders-Manuel is a West Coast writer, editor, and sensitivity reader. She received her master’s in English literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Real Simple, among others. She is currently represented by Chase Literary Agency for her memoir about growing up mixed race, coming in and out of conservative Christianity, and her complicated relationship with her absent, alcoholic father.

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