Reginald Dwayne Betts
Bastards of the Reagan Era
(Four Way Books)

I was invited to work with the remarkable poet, memoirist, activist and essayist Reginald Dwayne Betts for the launch of his poetry collection Bastards of the Reagan Era (Four Way Books 2015). The book won the 2016 PEN New England Award in Poetry, the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year for Poetry, a winner of the National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s (NCCD) 2016 Media for a Just Society Award, the 2016 Housatonic Book Award, and was shortlisted for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award. The book made Library Journal’s “Best Books 2015: Poetry” list, and was a finalist for both the Firecracker Award in Poetry and the 2016 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry. Click here to read the media kit. 

“Reginald Dwayne Betts paid a heavy price for the wisdom coursing through his fierce, unstoppable book of poems, Bastards of the Reagan Era. The redemption he has found in wrestling, fearlessly, with the destructive decisions—and decade—of his generation’s trials is mesmerizing and beautiful in the language and rhythms of his pen. Betts’s journey back—from prison all the way to Yale Law School—is as inspiring as it is rare, and should give us pause in condemning any man to social death. From rebirth comes justice—and power.”
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--Henry Louis Gates, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

Lily King, Euphoria
(Grove Atlantic)

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Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction 2014 and the New England Book Award 2014. Named in the Top 10 Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review amid a slew of best-of lists for the year. Set between World War I and II and inspired by events in the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria (Grove Atlantic) is an enthralling story of passion, possession, exploration and sacrifice from award-winning novelist Lily King. I worked with Lily as her assistant behind-the-scenes. What a joy. Check out Lily's website here. 

Susan Conley
The Foremost Good Fortune
(Knopf)  

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Created a China Tour for the launch of Susan Conley's award-winning memoir The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf) that charts her battle with breast cancer while living in Beijing. I helped to create an innovative sponsorship deal with the Peninsula Hotel Group (who sponsored the entire tour) and organized events in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. I also worked on Susan's novel, Paris Was The Place (Knopf). 

Watch the trailer by Willa Kammerer. 

Cynthia Lowen 
The Cloud That Contained The Lightning 
(The University of Georgia Press)

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Cynthia Lowen is a renowned producer and writer for documentaries such as Bully and Netizens (watch the trailers here.) I worked with her on her award-wining poetry collection The Cloud That Contained the Lightning (University of Georgia Press) which takes the vast subject of the atomic bomb and distils it into the life of a single man: J. Robert Oppenheimer. Acclaimed for it’s questioning of contemporary society through the reawakened lens of history, the book has been selected by Nikky Finney as a winner of the prestigious National Poetry Series. I helped with US and Asian outreach. Check out her site!

Debra Spark, The Pretty Girl 
(Four Way Books)

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Booked events in the United States, Paris and Geneva. From Victorian toy theaters to a graphic novelist's battle with schizophrenia that causes her cartoon characters to march off the page, the novella and six stories in Debra Spark's The Pretty Girl (Four Way Books) revolve around artists, artistry, and the magical--sometimes malicious--deceptions they create.  

Watch the trailer by Molly Jean Bennett.