Alison Hart at Alameda Authors Series 3

For the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alameda Free Library. Our May author Alison Hart will discuss her novel Mostly White, and her current writing projects.

Biography

Alison Hart studied theater at New York University and later found her voice as a writer. She identifies as a mixed-race African American, Passamaquoddy Native American, Irish, Scottish, and English woman of color.

She was recently introduced by best selling, award winning author Isabel Allende at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Isabel’s response to Mostly White: “So compelling it gave me goosebumps from the very first lines.”

Hart’s poetry collection Temp Words was published by Cosmo Press in 2015, and her poems appear in Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016) and elsewhere. She lives in Alameda, California.