Upcoming Author Visits

Poetry Reading: Stephanie Ginese and Taylor Byas
Main Library (Downtown), 2nd Floor – Literature Department
Saturday, April 27 | 4 pm
Join the Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library for a National Poetry Month reading featuring authors Stephanie Ginese (Lorain) and Taylor Byas (Cincinnati). 
About the readers: 
Stephanie Ginese is an author, instructor, and stand-up comedian from South Lorain, Ohio. Her debut collection of poetry, Unto Dogs, was released in July of 2022 on Grieveland. She is currently the inaugural writer-in-residence at ATNSC and a 2023 Cleveland Arts Prize recipient. She lives in Cleveland with her two children. She can be found at www.sginese.com. 
Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus, an Acquisitions Poetry Editor for Variant Literature, a member of the Beloit Poetry Journal Editorial Board, and a 2023-24 National Book Critics Emerging Fellow. She is the 1st place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contest, and the 2021 Adrienne Rich Poetry Prize. She is the author of the chapbook Bloodwarm from Variant Lit, a second chapbook, Shutter, from Madhouse Press, and her debut full-length, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times from Soft Skull Press, which won the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award and is shortlisted for the 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry. She is also a coeditor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol X: Alabama, forthcoming from Texas Review Press, and Poemhood: Our Black Revival, a YA anthology forthcoming from HarperCollins.

Writers Unplugged: Heather Gudenkauf
Online Event
Monday, April 29 | 7 pm
Writers Unplugged is a chance to hear your favorite writers or new to you writers as if you were eavesdropping on them in a coffee shop. 
Heather Gudenkauf is the Edgar Award nominated, New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of nine novels. We will talk about her latest book, Everyone is Watching.

Writers Unplugged: Abby L. Vandiver
Woodland
Thursday, June 06 | 7 pm
Register for Writers Unplugged: Abby L. Vandiver
Writers Unplugged is a chance to hear your favorite writers or new to you writers in conversation as you were eavesdropping on them in a coffee shop. 
Join us as local writer, Abby L. Vandiver, talks about her latest book.  

Writers Unplugged: Mark Sullivan
Jefferson
Thursday, June 13 | 7 pm
Register for Writers Unplugged: Mark Sullivan
Writers Unplugged is a chance to hear your favorite writers or new to you writers in conversation as you were eavesdropping on them in a coffee shop.
Join writer, Mark Sullivan as he talks about his recently published book, Thrive: When Trouble Visits! Being Your Best in Tough Times.

Writers Unplugged: Wendall Thomas
Online Event
Friday, June 28 | 7 pm
Writers Unplugged is a chance to hear your favorite writers or new to you writers as if you were eavesdropping on them in a coffee shop. 
Wendall Thomas is the 2024 Lefty Award Winner for Best Humorous Mystery Novel. We will talk about her latest book, Cheap Trills. 

Writers Unplugged: Juliet Grames
Online Event
Thursday, July 18 | 7 pm
Writers Unplugged is a chance to hear your favorite writers or new to you writers in conversation as you were eavesdropping on them in a coffee shop.
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is the just published book by best-selling and award-winning writer Juliet Grames, and she will talk about this book and her inspriation for the story.  

Writers Unplugged: Hannah Mary McKinnon
Online Event
Thursday, July 25 | 7:30 pm
Writers Unplugged is a chance to hear your favorite writers or new to you writers as if you were eavesdropping on them in a coffee shop. 
Hannah Mary McKinnon is the Internationallybestselling writer of suspense novels . We will talk about her latest book, Only One Survives.

Writers Unplugged: Sagit Schwartz
Online Event
Wednesday, July 31 | 7 pm
Writers Unplugged is a chance to hear your favorite writers or new to your writers in conversation as if you were eavesdropping on them in a coffee shop. 
Sagit Schwartz is a writer, producer, and licensed psychotherapist.  We will talk about her debut novel, Since She's Been Gone. 

Writers & Readers: Vivian Tu – Your Rich BFF
Main Library (Downtown), Lower Level – Auditorium
Thursday, August 01 | 6 pm
Register for Writers & Readers: Vivian Tu – Your Rich BFF
Join personal finance guru and author of Rich AF, Vivian Tu, as she shares her tips and secrets to building wealth. Vivian's straight-talking, girlfriend-to-girlfriend approach will resonate if you want financial freedom