Milkweed Books
1011 Washington Avenue South
Suite 107
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes Jennifer Kabat for the launch of her debut memoir, The Eighth Moon: A Memoir of Belonging and Rebellion. After reading from The Eighth Moon, Jennifer will be joined in conversation by Summer J. Hart and Kathryn Savage.
Enjoy a social hour and book-signing in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore Milkweed Books beginning at 6 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation at 7 p.m.
Jennifer Kabat received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism and has been published in BOMB and The Best American Essays. Her writing has also appeared in Granta, Frieze, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Review, and The White Review. A finalist for the essay prize at Notting Hill Editions, she often collaborates with artists. She’s part of the core faculty in the Design Research MA at the School of Visual Arts. An apprentice herbalist, she lives in rural Upstate New York and serves on her volunteer fire department.
Summer J. Hart is the author of Boomhouse (2023, The 3rd Thing Press), winner of the 2024 Nassar Poetry Prize. Summer is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work has been supported by NYSCA/NYFA and MacDowell fellowships. Her writing can be found in Best Small Fictions 2023, Bedfellows, Heavy Feather Review, Jet Fuel Review, The Massachusetts Review, Northern New England Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Her mixed-media installations have been featured in shows and galleries across the country. Summer is an enrolled member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation.
Kathryn Savage’s Groundglass: An Essay (Coffee House Press), explores topics of environmental justice and links between pollution and public health. Groundglass was named a best read of the year by the Sydney Morning Herald, a Yale Review Favorite Cultural Artifact, and was showcased in Orion Magazine, Lit Hub, and selected by EcoLit Books as a Best Environmental Book of 2022. Other writing has recently appeared in BOMB, Ecotone, Guernica, and VQR. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Milkweed Presents is a monthly event series featuring Milkweed authors as curators of conversation with local writers and community organizers on a topic of their choosing. These events are held in-person at Open Book in Milkweed Books and the Performance Hall.
Milkweed Editions is an independent publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We believe that literature has the potential to change the way we see the world. Learn more at milkweed.org.
Jennifer Kabat
Jennifer Kabat was a finalist for the Notting Hill Editions’ essay prize and has been published in BOMB and The Best American Essays.
The Eighth Moon is at once a search for how to live in a place and an enigmatic lesson in a new kind of seeing—one where everything is connected, and all at once.