The 18th annual Kentucky Women’s Book Festival will feature authors from a wide variety of genres March 2nd,2024 in University of Louisville’s Belknap Campus' Ekstrom Library.

The festival begins at 9 a.m. with coffee and conversation and the opening session begins at 9:30 a.m. in Chao Auditorium in Ekstrom Library. Festival sessions and presentations are free but participants are asked to register to guarantee their space.

Opening Speaker: Joy Priest
 
The festival’s opening speaker is Joy Priest (she/her) the author of Horsepower (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology (Sarabande, 2023). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Nation, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of African American / African Diasporic Poetry on the faculty of Pitt's MFA program and the Curator of Community Programs & Practice at its Center for African American Poetry & Poetics.

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Date: March 2, 2024

Time: 9:30 a.m.

Location: Chao Auditorium in Ekstrom Library - 2215 S 3rd St, Louisville, KY 40208

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