All Parents Matter: Tucson Festival of Books Panel

All Parents Matter: Tucson Festival of Books Panel

All Parents Matter: Tucson Festival of Books Panel with Simmons Buntin, Julie Fingersh & Marianne Novy

Join authors Simmons Buntin, Julie Fingersh, and Marianne Novy for an engaging panel at the Tucson Festival of Books: All Parents Matter.

Parenting can be a complex journey that doesn’t end when children leave the nest. Navigating the challenges, including adoption, illness, grief, and unconventional parenting roles, are part of the twists and turns in the adventure of parenting.

No registration required–please join us!

Saturday, March 15, 11:30 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.
Tucson Festival of Books
Koeffler Building, Room 216
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

Simmons Buntin is the author of Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far and the poetry collections Riverfall and Bloom; as well as co-author of Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places and co-editor of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy….

Julie Fingersh is a writer, journalist and, most recently, the author of Stay: A Story of Family, Love & Other Traumas. Julie’s personal essays, editorials, and reported stories have appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, Businessweek, Grown and Flown, and more….

Marianne Novy taught English Literature at the University of Pittsburgh for 40 years. In her early 30s, she met her birthmother and seven half-brothers. Her latest book is Adoption Memoirs, which discusses 45 books published by birthmothers, adoptees, and adoptee parents….

“I can’t think of a better guide—to whiptails, desert super blooms, craft beer, constellations, photography, fatherhood, community, and, well, life—than Simmons Buntin. From Denver to Tucson, to the Bosque del Apache, Mt. St. Helens, and beyond, Buntin writes with equal facility about the beautiful, dynamic intricacies of the natural world and the many lovely, knee-buckling complexities of family. These wide-ranging, self-aware, astute essays will leave you enlightened and deeply glad—glad right down to your heart and bones, the feathery roots of what some of us might even call a soul.”
— Joe Wilkins, author of The Entire Sky and The Mountain and the Fathers