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Minneapolis College English professor Shannon Gibney releases her new book in a book launch event with the Minnesota State community on Tuesday, January 24, at 6:30 pm.
Gibney will read from her memoir/novel The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be (Dutton, 2023), and engage in discussion about it with Write Like Us mentor and poet LM Brimmer, followed by Q & A with the audience.
Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often surreal experience of growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee.
Books will be available for sale and signing by the author at the event, but you also purchase in advance at Penguin Random House
This event is co-sponsored by Minneapolis College and Write Like Us, and is free and open to the public.
Write Like Us is an equity-based creative writing program at five Twin Cities metro-area community colleges: Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Century College, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Normandale Community College, and North Hennepin Community College. Write Like Us centers and celebrates the work of BIPOC writers and writing students, fostering literary mentorship and leadership as it builds a platform for shared stories, voices, and lived experiences. For more information about Write Like Us and our other author events, see Write Like Us.
ABOUT SHANNON GIBNEY
Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of See No Color and Dream Country, young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards, as well as the forthcoming picture book Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight. She co-authored the picture book Where We Come From, and is a co-editor of What God Is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color, and the forthcoming anthology When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology. Gibney teaches writing in the English department at Minneapolis College, where she is also the campus steward for the Write Like Us program.
ABOUT LM BRIMMER (Moderator)
LM Brimmer is an artist & educator living on Dakota land in Minneapolis, MN. Co-editor of the anthology Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose and Pride (MNHS Press 2019), their essays and poetry have appeared in The Alliance of Adoption Studies and Culture Journal, The Public Art Review, La Raza Comíca, Impossible Archetype, Gasher Journal, The B'K', Quarterly West, Voicemail Poems elsewhere. They attend the low-residency MFA program at Randolph College. lisamariebrimmer.com