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Bridgeport Public Library - Book Signing

Bridgeport, WV – Anna Smucker, WV author, will be at the Bridgeport Public Library for a book signing event on Thursday, December 12, 2019 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm! Copies of her books will be available for purchase during the event.

If you have questions about this program, please contact Tyler at the library at 304-842-8248. About Anna Smucker Anna Egan Smucker is a poet of the sacred: of trees and rivers, memory and loss, body and story. Her distinct and compassionate voice bears witness to violence, injustice, heartbreak and transformation, and offers an anchor amid the falling and dissolving of this life. Rowing Home is a book to share and to come back to. Don’t miss it! – George Ella Lyon, Kentucky Poet Laureate Bridgeport resident, Anna Egan Smucker is an award-winning author of nine books. No Star Nights, her memoir about growing up in the steel mill town of Weirton, WV won the International Reading Association Children's Book Award. Golden Delicious: A Cinderella Apple Story and Brother Giovanni's Little Reward: How the Pretzel Was Born represented WV at National Book Festivals in D.C.. Fallingwater: The Building of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece, co-authored with Marc Harshman, garnered starred reviews and was named an Amazon Nonfiction Book of the Month. Recipient of a WV Arts Commission Artist Fellowship Award, her poems have been published in anthologies and literary journals. Her first book of poems, titled Rowing Home, was published in 2019 by Finishing Line Press. Anna will have all of her books available for signing. She looks forward to meeting old friends and new!

Date: 12/12/2019
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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