Join Pulitzer-prize finalist Chloé Cooper Jones (Easy Beauty) and CV Writers Guild director B.J. Hollars (Year of Plenty) for a conversation on memoir writing, personal discovery, and writing toward unexpected revelations on the page. This is a virtual event.

This event is co-sponsored by the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library. Registration is available here: https://lephillips.librarycalendar.com/event/memoir

About the presenters:

Chloé Cooper Jones is a professor, journalist, and the author of the memoir Easy Beauty, which was named a best book of 2022 by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. She was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing in 2020. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient, a Howard Foundation Fellow, and an Associate Professor of Writing at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

B.J. Hollars is the author of several books, including Year of Plenty is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press this spring.