Join us for a discussion with Glory Edim, award-winning author of Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books that Saved Me and founder of the reading network Well-Read Black Girl. This discussion will include a keynote address from the author, followed by a public Q&A session and book signing.

About Glory

Glory Edim is an author, activist, and the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a nationwide book club-turned-literacy non-profit that celebrates the life changing power of literature. Well-Read Black Girl’s mission is to use storytelling as a tool for advocacy and collective empowerment.

Glory has won numerous awards for her work supporting writers of color, including the 2017 Innovator’s Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and the Madam C.J. Walker Award from the Hurston/Wright Foundation. She also serves on the board of Baldwin for the Arts. Her best-selling anthology, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, was published by Penguin Random House in 2018.

She resides in Washington D.C. with her son, Zikomo.

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