Southern Voices 2024 Participants
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Katie Baldwin
Baldwin
Katie
Southern Voices Featured Artist
Reception and Artist Lecture • Tue., Feb. 20 • 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
Born in the Pacific Northwest, Katie Baldwin earned an MFA from University of the Arts (2004) and a BA from Evergreen State College (1994). As a Fulbright Scholar (2021) she developed her project Modified Landscape at the International Print Center in Taipei, Taiwan. She has traveled extensively as an artist-in-residence, most notably to Japan, where she learned woodblock printing from master carvers and printers. Her books and prints have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the ASP Gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, Kentler International Drawing Center in Red Hook, NY and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama. Her work can be found in numerous collections, such as the Library of Congress in Washington DC, Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KS and Yale University Library Special Collections in New Haven, CT. She has received grant funding through several organizations, most recently from South Arts to support a fellowship awarded by Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. She served as the Victor Hammer Fellow (2011 - 2013) at Wells College, Aurora, NY. Dedicated to collaborative work, she co-founded the wood+paper+box collaborative (2012), the Shift-lab collective (2013), and the international print collective Mokuhanga Sisters (2020). She was awarded the Distinguished Research and Creative Activities Award (2022) from University of Alabama Huntsville, where she is an Associate Professor of book arts and printmaking.
Elizabeth George
An Evening with
Friday, February 23 • 7 pm
Tickets $40
Elizabeth George is The New York Times and internationally best-selling author of 20 British crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his unconventional partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers. Her crime novels have been translated into 30 languages and featured on television by the BBC. She is also the author of a young adult series set on Whidbey Island in the state of Washington. Author of the best-selling creative writing book Write Away, Elizabeth is a longtime instructor of creative writing and has taught at colleges, universities, writers' retreats and conferences internationally. She is the recipient of the Anthony Award, the Agatha Award, France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and Germany's MIMI, and has twice been nominated for an Edgar Award. Elizabeth is the recipient of an honorary doctorate of humane letters from California State University Fullerton and an honorary MFA from Northwest Institute of Language Arts (Whidbey Island MFA Program). She serves as the executive chair of the Elizabeth George Foundation, which makes grants to poets, emerging playwrights and unpublished novelists. She currently lives on Whidbey Island.
Conference
Author
Saturday, February 24 • 9 am - 4 pm
Tickets $45
Kate Quinn
The Diamond Eye
Yasmin Angoe
They Come at Knight
John Archibald
Shaking the Gates of Hell
Kim Cross
In Light of All Darkness
Kristin Harmel
The Paris Daughter
Daniel Nayeri
The Many Assassinations of Samir, The Seller of Dreams
Kenan Orhan
I Am My Country
Kate Quinn
The Diamond Eye
Quinn
Kate
Kate Quinn is The New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of historical fiction. She has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga, before turning to the 20th century with The New York Times best sellers The Alice Network and The Huntress. In the summer of 2017, Reese Witherspoon selected The Alice Network for her book club, and it was also selected as an Amazon Best Book of the Month, a Goodreads Best Books of the Month, and an NPR Best Book of the Year. Her latest novel, The Diamond Eye, was released in March 2022. A native of Southern California, today she lives in San Diego with her husband and three rescue dogs.
Yasmin Angoe
They Come at Midnight
Angoe
Yasmin
Yasmin Angoe is the Anthony-nominated author of the critically acclaimed thrillers Her Name Is Knight and They Come At Knight of the Nena Knight series. She is a first-generation Ghanaian American and, in 2020, received the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime. Yasmin’s books were an Amazon Best Book of the Month for Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, and an Editor’s Pick. The Nena Knight series has been optioned for a TV series by Ink Factory and Fifth Season and is currently in development. Yasmin is a proud member of several prestigious organizations, such as Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Crime Writers of Color, International Thriller Writers, and the Women’s National Book Association. Yasmin is a former English teacher and lives in South Carolina with her husband Vincent and their four children.
John Archibald
Shaking the Gates of Hell
Archibald
John
Birmingham’s John Archibald is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a longtime fixture in the South. The 2018 Pulitzer jury described his columns as "lyrical and courageous commentary that is rooted in Alabama but has a national resonance in scrutinizing corrupt politicians, championing the rights of women and calling out hypocrisy." He was lead reporter on the 2023 Pulitzer for Local Reporting, which examined out-of-control policing in the tiny Alabama town of Brookside. His book, Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution was named one of NPR's "books we love" of 2021. He was a 2021 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and taught column writing in the Harvard Summer School.
Cross
Kim
Kim Cross is a New York Times best-selling author, journalist, and historian known for meticulously reported narrative nonfiction, including What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley. Her stories have been recognized in “Best of” lists by The New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Sunday Long Read, Longform, Apple News Audio, and The Best American Sports Writing. She lives in Boise, Idaho and In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America’s Child is her latest work.
Kim Cross
In Light of All Darkness
Kristin Harmel
The Paris Daughter
Harmel
Kristin
Kristin Harmel is The New York Times best-selling author of more than a dozen novels including The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Room on Rue Amélie, The Sweetness of Forgetting and The Paris Daughter. She is published in more than thirty languages and is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series, Friends & Fiction. She lives in Orlando, Florida.
Daniel Nayeri
The Many Assassinations of Samir,
The Seller of Dreams
Nayeri
Daniel
Daniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma with his family at age eight. His autobiographical novel, Everything Sad is Untrue: (A True Story) was the winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, the Christopher Medal, and the Middle Eastern Book Award. He is a former publisher, editor and pastry chef. He lives with his wife and son in an Airstream in one of America's great National Parks.
Kenan Orhan
I Am My Country
Orhan
Kenan
Kenan Orhan is the author of I Am My Country: and Other Stories. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories. He teaches literature and creative writing at the Kansas City Art Institute and lives in Kansas.