From November 13-20, the Miami Book Fair will function panel discussions, readings, and conversations from Florida authors who’ve devoted their lives to crafting uniquely Floridian tales. From chronicles of the plight dealing with Florida’s manatees to a deep dive into the aftermath of gun violence in Miami, Florida’s high authors are highlighting their state’s points at this yr’s honest.
Nadege Green
Miami researcher, author, and archivist Nadege Green has devoted her skilled life to telling tales in regards to the lived expertise of Black individuals in South Florida. For her current anthology, More Than What Happened: the Aftermath of Gun Violence in Miami, Green makes use of historical past and first-person narrative to reveal the resilience and love that perseveres after individuals’s lives develop into irrevocably modified by gun violence.
More Than What Happened: the Aftermath of Gun Violence in Miami Panel Discussion. 12:30 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at 300 NE Second Ave., Miami (Building 8, Third Floor, Room 8301).
Kathie Klarreich
After 1 / 4 of a century working as a journalist for NPR, ABC, and the New York Times, Kathie Klarreich based Exchange for Change, a Miami-based nonprofit that facilitates writing workshops in correctional programs. Don’t Shake the Spoon: a Journal of Prison Writing is a literary journal containing the essays, poems, and tales of Florida’s incarcerated people, gathered by way of Exchange for Change programming. Klarreich will talk about her newest publication in a panel together with Eyone Williams, an writer and violence-prevention specialist who served 17 years in jail throughout his younger maturity and Darren Tinker, an Exchange for Change program participant who served greater than three years in Florida state prisons for a criminal offense he did not commit.
Kathie Klarreich on Don’t Shake the Spoon: A Journal of Prison Writing. 11:30 a.m. Saturday, November 21, at 300 NE Second Ave., Miami (Building 8, Third Floor, 8301).
Craig Pittman
In Manatee Insanity: Inside the War Over Florida’s Most Famous Endangered Species, bestselling writer and journalist Craig Pittman takes a deep dive into the historical past of Florida’s efforts to legally shield manatees. This work continues Pittman’s efforts to share the tales of Florida’s most unusual wildlife and folks with each humor and coronary heart, which he is achieved for the previous three a long time for retailers just like the Tampa Bay Times and the Florida Phoenix. During the honest, Pittman will share tales from his time reporting on the Floridian environmental beat in dialog with two different Floridian authors: Clay Henderson and Anne McCrary Sullivan.
Craig Pittman, Clay Henderson, and Anne McCrary Sullivan: A Conversation. 2 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at Magic Screening Room, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami (Building 8, First Floor).
Vanessa Garcia
She’s written for Sesame Street, her performs have been produced globally, and now she’s created a youngsters’s image e book. Vanessa Garcia’s What the Bread Says: Baking with Love, History, and Papan tells the story of a woman and her grandfather who embark on a baking journey that takes them from Spain to France to Cuba and teaches them the facility of roots, household, and love. Garcia will seem in dialog with Cuban writer Carlos Manuel Álvarez in the course of the honest, in addition to learn What the Bread Says throughout Picture Book Story Time within the Children’s Alley.
Carlos Manuel Álvarez and Vanessa Garcia: a Conversation. 3 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at Magic Screening Room, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami (Building 8, First Floor).
What the Bread Says: Baking with Love, History, and Papan Picture Book Story Time. Noon Sunday, November 20, at Children’s Alley, Magic Screening Room, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami.
Anne McCrary Sullivan
In The Everglades: Stories of Grit and Spirit from the Mangrove Wilderness, Anne McCrary Sullivan relays the experiences of those that have traversed one in all Florida’s wildest corners and made it again to inform tales of shark encounters, manatee rescues, and limitless magnificence. The Fulbright scholar, professor emerita of National Louis University, and artist in residence in Everglades fellow (a partnership with Everglades National Park that goals to empower artists to suppose critically and creatively about their relationship with the setting) will seem in dialog with fellow Floridian authors Craig Pittman and Clay Henderson.
Craig Pittman, Clay Henderson, and Anne McCrary Sullivan: a Conversation. 2 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at Magic Screening Room, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami (Building 8, First Floor).
Anastasia Samoylova
Miami-based photographer Anastasia Samoylova explores the distinctive contradictions — the paradise carved out of untamed swamp, the sweetness and bloat accompanying the event of land — that coalesce to make Florida the head-scratcher it’s. In Floridas, a photograph dialogue on Florida’s previous and current, Samoylova pairs her pictures with the work of Walker Evans, who photographed the Sunshine State from the Nineteen Thirties to the Nineteen Seventies. She will talk about her current work in the course of the honest in a dialog moderated by Heather Diack, affiliate professor of artwork historical past on the University of Miami.
Floridas: a Reading. 4 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at Magic Screening Room, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami (Building 8, First Floor).
Clay Henderson
In Forces of Nature: a History of Florida Land Conservation, retired Stetson University school member Clay Henderson attracts on his lengthy profession as an environmental lawyer to rejoice the Sunshine State’s storied historical past as a pacesetter in state-funded conservation and land preservation. From chronicling the earliest naturalists like John Muir to highlighting little-known efforts — like Frank Chapman convincing Teddy Roosevelt to make Pelican Island in Florida’s Indian River County the nation’s first wildlife refuge — Henderson crafts an entire historical past of the perseverance essential to make Florida house to just about 30 nationwide wildlife refuges and one of many nation’s most intensive state park programs. He will seem in dialog with fellow Floridian authors Craig Pittman and Anne McCrary Sullivan.
Craig Pittman, Clay Henderson, and Anne McCrary Sullivan: A Conversation. 2 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at Magic Screening Room, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami (Building 8, First Floor).
Deb Rogers
Working as a blogger, policymaker, and sufferer advocate, Deb Rogers has traversed your entire state in efforts to enhance Florida’s response to violent crime, and he or she labored for a couple of years as a wilderness schoolteacher. In her current novel Florida Woman, Rogers introduces readers to a girl whose life has gone viral following an outrageous crime she did not imply to commit. The heroine makes an attempt to search out solace whereas logging in neighborhood service hours at a Florida shelter for rescued monkeys, however she finally ends up uncovering one thing extra sinister than she may’ve imagined. During the honest, Rogers will seem in dialog with fellow crime and thriller novelists Sascha Rothchild and Virginia Hartman.
Sascha Rothchild, Deb Rogers, and Virginia Hartman: A Conversation. 4 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at 300 NE Second Ave., Miami (Building 8, Second Floor, 8202).
James A. Kushlan and Kirstin Hines
Author and wildlife photographer Kirstin Hines and author, ornithologist, and conservationist James A. Kushlan teamed as much as create Everglades National Park, a full-color celebration of the park’s seventy fifth anniversary. The pair observe the nationwide park’s historical past in full, from its creation as a motion to save lots of the wetlands from these plucking egret feathers for girls’s hats to its present standing as a protected wild house that welcomes almost a million guests every year. Hines and Kushlan will seem in dialog with James C. Clark, a historian and the writer of A History Lover’s Guide to Florida.
James A. Kushlan, Kirstin Hines, and James C. Clark: A Conversation. Noon Saturday, November 19, at Magic Screening Room, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami (Building 8, First Floor).