March 31, 2021 @ 7 PM
Season 1 Episode 1: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich and Lisa Braxton
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich (they/them)
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE, the Prix des libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD, an award for one book of any genre in the world. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Audible.com, Bustle, Book Riot, The Times of London, The Guardian, Paris Match, Lire, Telerama, and The Sydney PressHerald, it was an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger, a finalist for a New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award, and has been translated into ten languages. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Maine Arts Commission, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award, Marzano-Lesnevich has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe, Oxford American, Harper’s, and many other publications.
Lisa Braxton (she/her)
Lisa Braxton is an Emmy-nominated former television journalist, an essayist, short story writer, and novelist. Her first novel, The Talking Drum, is about 3 young couples in the early 1970s and how they’re affected when an urban redevelopment project takes over a neighborhood. Recently, The Talking Drum was selected by Shelf Bound book review magazine as the overall winner of its 2020 Independently Published Book Award. She also received a 2020 outstanding literary award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Her stories and essays have appeared in Vermont Literary Review, Black Lives Have Always Mattered, Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Book of Hope.
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