Recent Release + Upcoming Events
Telling lyrical stories that celebrate joy, expand understanding, and foster compassion . . .
Autumn Song: Essays on Absence
(University of Nebraska Press | American Lives Series)
Shortlisted for the inaugural Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award
“This gorgeous collection of essays about home and belonging cast a spell on me, with its gentle yet sharp observations and evocative sense of place . . . Underlying these contemplative essays is an urgency to make sense of a world that often feels chaotic and frightening.”—Geeta Kothari, author of I Brake for Moose and Other Stories
“Patrice Gopo deftly plunges the reader into a life that weaves the personal with the political—and spotlights patterns of beauty amid the chaotic and often racist American fabric, both past and present. Gopo’s prose is vivid and gorgeous.”—Devi S. Laskar, author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues and Circa
A Special Upcoming Event to Support Hurricane Recovery Efforts
Compressed Words, Expansive Impact: Flash Essays and Social Change
Thursday, November 14, 2024
6-8 pm ET
CharlotteLit
Virtual via Zoom
Examine how writing flash essays can help promote positive social change in and beyond our spheres of influence.
(In support of hurricane recovery efforts in Western North Carolina, I’ve partnered with CharlotteLit to offer this course. CharlotteLit will donate all proceeds from this class to hurricane recovery work. Thank you for supporting this work.)
