Journeys and Generations: Lauren Francis-Sharma

Lauren Francis-Sharma, Shivanee Ramlochan and Maisy Card 

Journeys and Generations: Lauren Francis-Sharma

Lauren Francis-Sharma, Shivanee Ramlochan and Maisy Card 

5:00pm

Saturday, October 23

Family truths, secrets and identity struggles unfold in the new and highly acclaimed work of historical fiction by Lauren Francis-Sharma. American novelist Lauren Francis-Sharma will present Book of the Little Axe, based on the true story of adventurer Edward Rosed, and the incredible journey of a family from Trinidad to the American West during the tumultuous days of warring colonial powers and westward expansion.

Interviewer: Shivanee Ramlochan

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Family truths, secrets and identity struggles unfold in the new and highly acclaimed work of historical fiction by Lauren Francis-Sharma. American novelist Lauren Francis-Sharma will present Book of the Little Axe, based on the true story of adventurer Edward Rosed, and the incredible journey of a family from Trinidad to the American West during the tumultuous days of warring colonial powers and westward expansion.

Interviewer: Shivanee Ramlochan

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

This event has undergone a participant change. Please be advised that Maisy Card, originally scheduled for this event, can no longer appear. The event will proceed, with apologies for any inconvenience caused by this change.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Lauren Francis-Sharma
Lauren Francis-Sharma is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel ’Til the Well Runs Dry, a Black Caucus of the American Library Association honoree and shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize. She resides near Washington, DC, with her husband and two children and is the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College.

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Shivanee Ramlochan
Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet and essayist. Her book of poems, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The Red Thread Cycle, a suite of poems from her debut collection, won a Small Axe Literary Competition Prize for Poetry (second-place) and was on audiovisual display at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas in 2019. Her second book, Unkillable, a nonfiction narrative focusing on Indo-Caribbean women’s disobedience in Trinidad, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2022.

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Maisy Card 
Maisy Card holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and is a public librarian. Her writing has appeared in Lenny Letter,  School Library Journal,  Agni,  Sycamore Review, Liars’ League NYC and  Ampersand Review. Maisy was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica, but was raised in Queens, New York. Maisy earned an MLIS from Rutgers University and a BA in English and American Studies from Wesleyan University. She is the author of  These Ghosts Are Family. 

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5:00pm

Saturday, October 23

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