TNM Talks: Shannon Luders-Manuel in Conversation with TNM Founder Shari Foos
Fri, Sep 13
|Zoom
Join a virtual conversation with Shannon Luders-Manuel, writer and sensitivity reader. Her book, The One Who Loves You: A Memoir of Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World will be released in February 2025
Time & Location
Sep 13, 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
Zoom
About the Event
About Shannon Luders-Manuel: Shannon Luders-Manuel is a writer and sensitivity reader whose memoir, The One Who
Loves You: A Memoir of Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World, is forthcoming in February 2025 from Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press.
Shannon’s book artfully details her experience growing up mixed-race with her white family in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s and ‘90s, and her complicated relationship with her absent Black father who struggled with alcohol addiction. The book intimately explores her quest for identity and belonging with her father, her family, her partners, and the evangelical church, culminating in taking care of her father in hospice when she was 24.
Shannon holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has written extensively about race, with bylines in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the LA Review of…