Cord Swell, brittny ray crowell’s debut poetry collection, is a pilgrimage through experimental poems, stories, and mixed-media collage, of three generations of Black women. Marrying inventive form with meaning, these poems echo the voices of lost loved ones.

Nina McConigley comes to Houston with her debut novel, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, about a pair of Indian-American teenage sisters who plot to murder a newly immigrated uncle.

crowell and McConigley will read from their new works followed by an on-stage conversation led by a local writer/journalist. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing.