AUTHOR EVENT: Connor Towne O'Neill in conversation with Irvin Weathersby

We are excited to celebrate the late September release of DOWN ALONG WITH THAT DEVIL'S BONES: RECKONING WITH MONUMENTS, MEMORY, AND THE LEGACY OF WHITE SUPREMACY, by Connor Towne O'Neill. Connor will be in conversation with Brooklyn-based writer and professor Irvin Weathersby. The event is free but registration is required.

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Connor Towne O’Neill’s writing has appeared in New York magazine, Vulture, Slate, RBMA, and the Village Voice, and he works as a producer on the NPR podcast White Lies. Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he lives in Auburn, Alabama, where he teaches at Auburn University and with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. This is his first book.

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Irvin is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He has earned degrees from Morehouse College, Morgan State University, and The New School where he studied English Literature, Education, and Creative Writing respectively. Since 2003, he has been an educator in various capacities, first as a high school teacher in Baltimore and later as an adult educator in college and library settings. He currently is a full-time professor at Queensborough Community College where he teaches composition and creative writing. His memoir-in-essays titled In Open Contempt will be published by Viking/Penguin Random House. Irvin is most proud of his work in the reentry sector where he served as the education coordinator for a reentry program in the South Bronx and Harlem. Tasked with ensuring the educational attainment of formerly incarcerated youth aged 18-24, he helped participants earn GEDs, trade-school certifications, and college degrees.

Irvin’s writing reflects his passions which include music, literature, art, education, mass incarceration, gentrification, history, biography, and other themes. He has received funding and support from the Voices of our Nation Arts Foundation, the Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Award, and the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference where he was named the 2019 Bernard O’Keefe Scholar in Nonfiction.

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