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Join us for a reading and panel conversation with Ingrid Persaud and local authors to celebrate Caribbean Heritage Month, moderated by Cherrie Woods.

Carol Mitchell of CaribbeanReads will also present on publishing Caribbean literature during this time of COVID-19. Finally,  members of the Caribbean Lit Book Club will talk about their year of discovering and discussing Caribbean literature.

Ingrid Persaud was born in Trinidad. Her debut novel, Love After Love, won the Costa First Novel Award 2020. She also won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018 and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017. She read law at the London School of Economics and was an academic before studying fine art at Goldsmiths and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in several newspapers and magazines including Granta, Prospect, Five Dials, The Guardian and National Geographic. 

ASL interpretation will be available to attendees.

Visit https://www.theivybookshop.com/ to order your copies of Love After Love.

Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.