Speaker @ the Center to Feature Author Ellen Malphrus

Join us on Wednesday, November 18 from noon to 1:00 p.m. for Speaker @ the Center, featuring author Ellen Malphrus. Untying the Moon (University of SC Press) takes readers on a road trip in a '67 Skylark convertible through blood and bone places in search of the redemptive possibilities of love and home.

Ellen Malphrus lives and writes in her native Carolina lowcountry and southwest Montana. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Southern Literary Journal, Review of Contemporary Fiction, William and Mary Review, Georgia Poetry Review, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and the anthology Essence of Beaufort and the Lowcountry. She was a student of James Dickey and teaches at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Learn more about Untying the Moon at the University of SC Press website.

Books will be available for purchase and signing. All Speaker @ the Center programs take place at the South Carolina State Library located at 1500 Senate St., Columbia. Speaker @ the Center is FREE and open to the public.

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Jennifer Bartell Boykin, Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC

April 25, 2024, 6:00 PM
Join the South Carolina State Library's Center for the Book for our next Speaker at the Center Author Talk, featuring Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC, Jennifer Bartell Boykin. She will discuss her debut book of poetry, Traveling Mercy, and her upcoming release, Only Believe (The Word Works), a winner of the 2023 Hilary Tham Capital Collection.