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Southern Methodist University presents the inaugural Dallas Literary Festival — “Art in an Age of Turbulence” — and I’ll be joining Toni Jensen, Fowzia Karimi, and A. Kendra Greene in the discussion “Read by the Author: Recording Audiobooks in the Last 12 Months.”

Kerri Arsenault is a book critic, book editor at Orion magazine, and a contributing editor at The Literary Hub. She is also a mentor for PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program. Her work has appeared in Freeman’s, Paris Review Daily, New York Review of Books, and the Boston Globe, and the author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains.

A. Kendra Greene is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. She has an MFA in nonfiction and a graduate certificate in book arts from the University of Iowa and has been the recipient of a Fulbright grant and a Harvard Library Innovation Lab Fellowship.

Toni Jensen, author of Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land, teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Arkansas and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is a 2020 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her work has been published in Orion, Catapult, and Ecotone. She is Métis.

Fowzia Karimi, author and artist of Above Us the Milky Way, was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and grew up in Southern California. She emigrated to United States in 1980, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Karimi has a background in Visual Arts and Biology. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland, California.