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SUMMARY:Sony Ton-Aime and Lauren Francis-Sharma
DESCRIPTION:Chautauqua Writers’ Center Faculty Reading — Featuring Sony Ton-Aime (Poetry) and Lauren Francis-Sharma (Prose) \nSony Ton-Aime is a Haitian poet\, essayist\, translator\, and Executive Director of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures. He is the author of the poetry collection\, Konbit (2026\, CMU Press)\, the chapbook\, LaWomann (2019)\, the Haitian Creole translation of Olympic Hero: The Lennox Kilgour’s Story\, and co-founding editor of ID13. His work has appeared and is forthcoming in Artful Dodge\, Cream City Review\, Idaho Review\, Hunger Mountain Review\, and Cleveland Review of Books\, Consequence Forum\, among others.  \nA child of Trinidadian immigrants\, Lauren Francis-Sharma is the author of the critically acclaimed novels ’Til the Well Runs Dry (Picador\, 2014)\, and Book of the Little Axe (Grove Atlantic\, 2020)\, which was the 2020 American Library Association’s “Libraries Transform Book Pick” and finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award in Fiction. Casualties of Truth (Grove Atlantic\, 2025)\, her most recent book\, is a riveting literary novel with the sharp edges of a thriller about the abuses of history and the costs of revenge\, set between Washington\, D.C.\, and Johannesburg\, South Africa.   \nFrancis-Sharma was a MacDowell fellow and is the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College. She holds a BA from UPENN\, a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School\, and an MFA from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She resides near Washington\, DC\, with her family.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/sony-ton-aime-and-lauren-francis-sharma/
LOCATION:Hall of Philosophy\, Hall of Philosophy
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Week Three (July 11–18),Weekly Themes,Chautauqua Writers’ Center,Literary Arts
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