MN Book Award Series: “Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces” with Michelle Filkins

MN Book Award Series: “Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces” with Michelle Filkins May 15 @ 7:00 pm MN Book Award Series: Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces with Michelle Filkins, joined by Sha Cage, Maureen Aiken, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Suzanne Nielsen and Patricia Cumbie. Thursday, May 15, 7:00 p.m. East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul, MN 55106 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. REGISTRATION IS REQUESTED: https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/eastsidefreedomlibrary/event.jsp?event=286& The East Side Freedom Library is fortunate to have on our board of directors editor, librarian and writer Michelle Filkins. Join us for a conversation on the collection recognized as a Minnesota Book Award finalist, Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces. Michelle will be on hand along with some of the contributors to the collection. Locker Room Talk, gives us insight into the epic and ordinary moments that happen when women are together. Subverting the traditional idea of “locker room talk,” this collection illuminates the conversations women share with family, friends, and strangers, whether at the sinks of a nightclub ladies’ room, on a bus heading to the Women’s March, or in the kitchen of an elder relative. Cumulatively, they reveal the myriad ways women care for themselves, each other, their communities, and our world. Michelle Filkins is a founding editor of Spout Press and a contributing author to The Evolution of Human Cooperation and Community Development (Lexington Books, 2021) and Creating a Transformational Community: The Fundamentals of Stewardship Activities (Lexington Books, 2017). She is a Little Free Library steward and one of the Daunte Wright Memorial caretakers. Currently she is a professor and reference and instruction librarian at Metro State University in Saint Paul. Sha Cage is a renaissance artist who writes, directs and acts in theater and film. She has been called a change-maker and one of the leading artists of her generation. Sha is one of the premier actors, artists and culture makers in the Twin Cities whose work has been recognized globally. Maureen Aitken’s short-story collection, The Patron Saint of Lost Girls (SEMO Press), won the Nilsen Prize, the top Foreword Review INDIE Prize (General Fiction, Gold Winner), and ranked in the Kirkus Best Indie Books of 2019. She is a Minnesota Book Award finalist and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Leslie Adrienne Miller’s collections of poetry include Y, The Resurrection Trade, and Eat Quite Everything You See from Graywolf Press, and Yesterday Had a Man In It, Ungodliness and Staying Up For Love from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Patricia Cumbie’s short stories and essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Her writing has been supported by The Loft Literary Center’s Fiction Mentor Series, a nSASE/Jerome Fellowship, a Loft Career Initiative Grant, and a Minnesota State Arts Board fellowship. Suzanne Nielsen (she/her) is a lifelong resident of St. Paul, Minnesota. She is an East Sider who teaches writing at Metropolitan State University. Her latest poetry collection, Face Up, was published in March 2022. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE FOR THE CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY!