This pre-publication author series is a chance for booksellers, librarians, and other industry professionals to hear from the author, ask their questions directly, and gain insight into the writer's process and story behind the book. Ashley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fellowship. Her work has been a notable mention in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and she’s the recipient of the Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. In 2015, she cofounded Transit Books, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature. Immediate Family is her first book. Tamara Shopsin is an illustrator, graphic designer, writer, part-time cook, and a co-owner of the New York City eatery Shopsin’s. She is the author of Mumbai New York Scranton, What Is This?, and Arbitrary Stupid Goal; and coauthor, with Jason Fulford, of the books This Equals That and Offline Activities. LaserWriter II is her first novel. Venita Blackburn is the author of the story collection Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2018 Young Lions Fiction Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Pleiades, Madison Review, Bat City Review, American Short Fiction, and Bellevue Literary Review. She is a faculty member in the creative writing program at Fresno State University and the founder and president of Live, Write, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color. Nadia Wassef is the author of Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller and an owner of Diwan, Egypt’s first modern bookstore, which she co-founded in 2002 with her sister, Hind. She received an MFA from Birkbeck College at the University of London; a Master in Social Anthropology from the University of London; and a Master in English from American University in Cairo. Before Diwan, she worked in research and advocacy for the Female Genital Mutilation Taskforce and in the Women and Memory Forum. Featured on the Forbes List of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the Middle East in 2014, 2015, and 2016, Wassef’s work has been covered in Time, Monocle, Business Monthly, and elsewhere. She lives in London with her two daughters.
Advance Access: FSG Presents
From Sep 2, 2021 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM GMT
Organized by Macmillan Publishers
Free
FSG presents four compelling conversations between upcoming fall authors and their editors!
This pre-publication author series is a chance for booksellers, librarians, and other industry professionals to hear from the author, ask their questions directly, and gain insight into the writer's process and story behind the book.
Ashley Nelson Levy received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fellowship. Her work has been a notable mention in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and she’s the recipient of the Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. In 2015, she cofounded Transit Books, an independent publishing house with a focus on international literature. Immediate Family is her first book.
Tamara Shopsin is an illustrator, graphic designer, writer, part-time cook, and a co-owner of the New York City eatery Shopsin’s. She is the author of Mumbai New York Scranton, What Is This?, and Arbitrary Stupid Goal; and coauthor, with Jason Fulford, of the books This Equals That and Offline Activities. LaserWriter II is her first novel.
Venita Blackburn is the author of the story collection Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2018 Young Lions Fiction Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Pleiades, Madison Review, Bat City Review, American Short Fiction, and Bellevue Literary Review. She is a faculty member in the creative writing program at Fresno State University and the founder and president of Live, Write, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color.
Nadia Wassef is the author of Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller and an owner of Diwan, Egypt’s first modern bookstore, which she co-founded in 2002 with her sister, Hind. She received an MFA from Birkbeck College at the University of London; a Master in Social Anthropology from the University of London; and a Master in English from American University in Cairo. Before Diwan, she worked in research and advocacy for the Female Genital Mutilation Taskforce and in the Women and Memory Forum. Featured on the Forbes List of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the Middle East in 2014, 2015, and 2016, Wassef’s work has been covered in Time, Monocle, Business Monthly, and elsewhere. She lives in London with her two daughters.