Tennessee Tech University
Backdoor Playhouse, Jere Whitson Building
805 Quadrangle
Cookeville, TN 38501
United States
Free and open to the public.
Tennessee Tech welcomes Margaret Renkl, author of Late Migrations, for a reading at the Backdoor Playhouse.
Free and open to the public. Reading starts at 7:00 PM
Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl is the author of Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South and Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. Her work has also appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Proximity, and River Teeth, among others. The founding editor of Chapter 16, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.
From Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family—and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.