The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is thrilled to welcome local authors Monica Prince, Tara Stillions Whitehead, and Jamie Beth Cohen for a book launch reading and signing on their new books, Roadmap(Prince), They More Than Burned (Whitehead), and Liminal Summer (Cohen).
Copies of the authors’ books will be available for purchase at the event. Signing to take place following the reading. This event is free and open to the public!
Monica Prince teaches activist and performance writing and serves as Director of Africana Studies at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of Roadmap: A Choreopoem, How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem, and Letters from the Other Woman. Her work appears in Wildness, The Missouri Review, The Texas Review, The Rumpus, MadCap Review, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee obsessed with yoga and maxi skirts with pockets, Prince writes, teaches, and performs choreopoems across the nation.
Tara Stillions Whitehead is a filmmaker and the author of Blood Histories (Galileo Press 2021), The Year of the Monster (Unsolicited Press 2022), and most recently, They More Than Burned (ELJ Editions 2023). Nominated for the 2022 Aspen Words Award and Maya Angelou Award in Fiction, Whitehead’s work was included in the Wigleaf Top 50 in both 2021 and 2022 and was selected as notable in Best American Essays 2022, edited by Alexander Chee. She is Assistant Professor of Film, Video, and Digital Media Production at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, PA.
Jamie Beth Cohen writes about difficult things, but her friends think she’s funny. Her non-fiction has appeared in TeenVogue.com, The Washington Post/On Parenting, Salon, and several other outlets. Her debut novel, Wasted Pretty, is about a sixteen-year-old girl who has to deal with wanted and unwanted attention when she inadvertently goes from blending in to standing out. Although a writer at heart, Jamie has done a number of other things in order to feed, clothe, and shelter herself and her family. Her favorite job was scooping ice cream in Pittsburgh, PA when she was sixteen years old. She thinks everything about sixteen was wonderful and amazing, except all the stuff that was horrible.
