This engaging reading and conversation will feature Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Age of Phillis, longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for poetry. Professor Jeffers is a poet, fiction writer, scholar, and essayist whose work examines culture, religion, history, and family. She is the author of five books of poetry, and the recipient of two lifetime achievement notations, the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year and induction into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. Professor Jeffers has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry in conjunction with the Library of Congress. An elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, she teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma where she is a professor of English. Even more great details at the Royall House & Slave Quarters events page.

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