Rural Assembly
N/A
Knoxville, TN 37917
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT
Award-winning essayist Margaret Renkl will join Rural Assembly Everywhere as the first keynote speaker at the two-day virtual festival this April. Renkl and the Rural Assembly’s Whitney Kimball Coe will discuss the shifting culture and demographics in the South, how we stay connected to one another in this time of deep division, and Renkl’s 2019 essay collection Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. The live event will kick off Rural Assembly Everywhere at 2 p.m. ET on April 20 and will feature a question and answer session with viewers. Register here!
Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl is the author of The Comfort of Crows, Late Migrations, and Graceland, at Last. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly.
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.