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Our New Histories: The Debut BIPOC Writers Reshaping Literature
Fri, Sep 19
|Cafe con Libros
Join authors Camille U. Adams, Olufunke Grace Bankole, Tramaine Suubi, Jared Lemus in a conversation about their debut books, moderated by M. Lin THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2025 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT
Time & Location
Sep 19, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Cafe con Libros, 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA
About the Event
Restless Books, Tin House, Amistad, and Ecco present four ascendent authors whose first releases shook 2025. Camille U. Adams traces her family’s legacy of secrets and abandonment in the Trinidadian memoir How to Be Unmothered; individual longing and a Yoruba prophecy collide in Olufunke Grace Bankole’s intergenerational novel, The Edge of Water; Tramaine Suubi follows the waxing moon from anxiety to ecstasy in their poetry collection, phases; and Jared Lemus turns a cinematic eye to reluctant outlaws and would-be saints in the stories of Guatemalan Rhapsody. Moderated by M Lin.
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2025 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Camille U. Adams, PhD, is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her memoir, How to Be Unmothered, was recognized as a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing 2023. She earned her MFA in Poetry from City College, CUNY, and a PhD in Creative Nonfiction from Florida State University. Honors for her work include Best of The Net: Nonfiction 2024, five nominations for…