Author Events
Through its Writers & Readers, Writers Unplugged and Ohio Center for the Book, Cleveland Public Library engages authors, academics and public figures in discussions surrounding the books and stories that have shaped their lives and how the craft of writing has evolved.
Writers & Readers
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Upcoming Author Visits
See who’s coming next.
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Writers Unplugged:Cara Black
Online Event Monday, April 01 | 7 pmWriters 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.
Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees.
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Author Visit- William Krejci
Main Library (Downtown), 1st Floor – Indoor Reading Garden Saturday, April 06 | 12 pmExplore Cleveland's spooky past with local historian and author of Lost Ghost Stories of Cleveland, William Krejci, as we investigate our city's ghostly legends and urban lore! Book signing to follow.
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Visiting Local Poet: Ali Black
Mount Pleasant Wednesday, April 10 | 3 pmIn honor of National Poetry Month, poet Ali Black will be reading her poetry and hosting a poetry workshop.
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Writers Unplugged: Samuel Burr
Online Event Thursday, April 11 | 4 pmWriters 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.
Samuel studied at Westminster Film School and now works as an author and freelance TV executive. We will discuss his debut novel, The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers.
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Meet the Author: Douglas Westerbeke
Main Library (Downtown), 1st Floor – North Reading Room Saturday, April 20 | 2 pmLocal librarian and author, Douglas Westerbeke, visits to discuss his debut novel, A Short Walk Through A Wide World.
Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs and the author will sign books after the discussion.
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Poetry Reading: Lindsay Turner and Noah Falck
Main Library (Downtown), 2nd Floor – Literature Department Saturday, April 20 | 4 pmJoin the Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library for a National Poetry Month reading featuring authors Lindsay Turner (Cleveland) and Noah Falck (Dayton).
About the readers:
A poet, critic, and translator, Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry collections The Upstate (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018). Her translations from the French include books by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Stéphane Bouquet, Frédéric Neyrat, Richard Rechtman, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and others. Her translation of Bouquet's The Next Loves was longlisted for the National Translation Awards, shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, and named a New York Times top 10 poetry collection of 2019, and she has twice received French Voices Grants for her translation work. Originally from northeast Tennessee, she lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University.
Noah Falck is the author of Exclusions (finalist for the 2020 Believer Book Award), as well as several chapbook collections, including normal normal, You Are In Nearly Every Future, and the co-authored collection Prerecorded Weather (winner of the 2022 James Tate Poetry Prize). His poems have been published in the Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily and Poets.org and anthologized in Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion. He lives in Buffalo, New York, where he works as Literary Director at Just Buffalo Literary Center. In 2013, he started the Silo City Reading Series, a multimedia poetry event series inside a 120-foot high, 100-year-old abandoned grain elevator.
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Poetry Reading: Stephanie Ginese and Taylor Byas
Main Library (Downtown), 2nd Floor – Literature Department Saturday, April 27 | 4 pmJoin 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.
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Writers Unplugged: Heather Gudenkauf
Online Event Monday, April 29 | 7 pmWriters 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.
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Writers Unplugged: Wendall Thomas
Online Event Thursday, May 09 | 7 pmWriters 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.
Wendall Thomas not only writes for film and television and is an accomplished professor of screenwriting at UCLA, but is also the writer of the Cyd Redondo series. Join us to talk about her latest book, Cheap Thrills, in this series.
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Writers Unplugged: Mark Sullivan
Jefferson Thursday, June 13 | 7 pmWriters 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.