Writers LIVE! A.J. Verdelle, "Miss Chloe"

400 Cathedral Street,Baltimore MD 21201

12 September, 2022

Description

Award-winning novelist A.J. Verdelle will discuss her friendship with the late novelist Toni Morrison. Her book, part-memoir and part-ruminations on a writing life, explores their long relationship that was forged from their shared desire to write about Black women’s lives. A.J. Verdelle will be joined in conversation by Morgan State University philosophy and religious studies professor Harold Morales. A.J. Verdelle is a  creative writing professor at Morgan State University and Lesley University.  She is the author of several books and essays and the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award. Harold Morales is a philosophy and religious studies professor as well as the director of the Center for the Study of Religion and the City at Morgan State University. He is the author of Latino & Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority. ASL interpretation will be available for attendees. Writers LIVE! programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund and the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Portfolios, www.BakerArtist.org.