We are proud to announce that Angel Tucker will be on faculty for the 2023 Writers Conference!
Angel Tucker has worked in Youth Services at Johnson County Library for 19 years and currently serves as the Youth Services Manager. She is the founder of elementia, Johnson County Library’s inter-nationally recognized visual and literary arts magazine for young adults and currently sponsors and helps coordinate Race Project KC – an equity initiative that aims to bring students and educators together to discuss the history of race, equity, and inclusion in the United States. Angel was awarded a Library Journal Mover and Shaker award in 2018 and in 2019 provided a keynote address in Auckland, New Zealand at the Oceania region’s LIIANZA (Pronounced: LeeOnZa) Library Conference on behalf of Race Project KC. She teaches a School Library Journal virtual courses twice a year on the power of using local history to combat systematic oppression.
Angel will provide a drop-in activity at the conference this year and will guide attendees on making a special collage that reflects their individual creative practice.
You can register for the conference here. Registration isn’t required but is appreciated, and your RSVP includes both days of the conference, Nov. 3 and 4. Sessions are available on a first-come first-serve basis. We will also be hosting a Writers Conference Kickoff on Thursday, Nov. 2.
Inspired by this year’s conference book, By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review, we asked Angel a few questions to get to know her better:
1. What's in your TBR pile?
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
2. What are you reading right now?
Equity by Design by Mirko Chardin & Katie Novak
The E Suite by Tina Kuhn & Neal Frick
The Whispers by Ashley Audrain
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
3. Do you have a favorite book you love to recommend?
I love to recommend The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth
4. Do you have a favorite bookstore?
Marcus Books in Oakland, CA & Raven Book Store in Lawrence, KS
5. Answer the question you wish we had asked.
My favorite spoken word piece that I listen to over and over - Reyna's Interlude: An Ode to the Black Woman's Body (Track 11 on Rapsody’s album Eve)