“I did not set out with any agenda with my work. I obsessively wanted to tell stories and there were certain things from my home life, from my community, that were really troubling and I wanted to understand why they happened and how they worked."
— Kali Fajardo-Anstine
An Albany Book Festival featured event presented by the NYS Writers Institute
Edwidge Danticat’s latest short story collection Everything Inside: Stories, was honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Story Prize, and the Vilcek Prize in Literature. The book was also a pick of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club. Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is a National Book Award finalist for her debut short story collection Sabrina & Corina (2019), which was also selected a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize and The Story Prize and longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. Drawing from her Southern Colorado heritage and life experiences living across the American West, Fajardo-Anstine’s writing and lectures reflect her own heritage as a Colorado Chicana with roots in Indigenous, Latina, and Filipino cultures.
The NYS Writers Institute continues to support independent local bookstores, and the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza is the sole bookseller for the Albany Book Festival. All featured books can be ordered directly online through this Albany indie bookstore at http://www.bhny.com
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More information and events at www.albanybookfestival.com.
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