Jackson-Brown to speak as part of Indiana Authors Awards’ Speaker Program
The love of reading, importance of stories and immense talents of Indiana authors will be celebrated during a special event on Hanover College’s campus through the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards’ Speaker Program.
Angela Jackson-Brown, an award-winning writer, poet, playwright and educator, will speak at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 24, at Hanover’s Duggan Library. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
Jackson-Brown is the director of the creative writing program at Indiana University Bloomington. She also teaches in the graduate program at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, Ky.
She is the author of “Drinking From a Bitter Cup,” “When Stars Rain Down,” “The Light Always Breaks” and “Homeward.” Her novels have received starred reviews from the “Library Journal” and “Publishers Weekly” and glowing reviews from “Alabama Public Library,” “Buzzfeed,” “Parade” magazine and “Women’s Weekly.”
“When Stars Rain Down” was named a finalist for the 2021 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction, longlisted for the Granum Foundation Award, and shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Award. “Homeward” was shortlisted for the Indiana Authors Award in 2024. “House Repairs,” a collection of her poems, was the winner of the Alabama Library Association Poetry Award in 2021.
Jackson-Brown’s short fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry works have appeared in journals such as “The Louisville Journal” and the “Appalachian Review.”
She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and Spalding’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing.
Founded in 1972, Indiana Humanities connects people, opens minds and enriches lives by creating and facilitating programs that encourage Hoosiers to think, read and talk. The non-profit entity is funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Lilly Endowment Inc.
Indiana Humanities’ Indiana Authors Awards celebrate books written in Indiana by Hoosier authors. The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards annually highlight the best works of Indiana writers in multiple categories, as well as literary debuts and lifetime achievement.
Jackson-Brown’s appearance is supported by the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library and Hanover’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, Haq Center for Cross-Cultural Education, Duggan Library, English department, Black Student Union and “Kennings,” the College’s literary magazine.
Photos courtesy of Chandra Lynch, Ankh Productions
