JAMI ATTENBERG Jami Attenberg is the New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including The Middlesteins, All Grown Up the recently published a new novel, A Reason to See You Again, and a memoir, I Came All This Way To Meet You: Writing Myself Home. She is also the creator of the annual online group writing accountability project #1000WordsofSummer, which inspired the USA Today bestseller 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round": Jami has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times, The Guardian, and others. Her work has been published in sixteen languages.

Her debut collection of stories, Instant Love, was published in 2006, followed by the novels The Kept Man and The Melting Season. Her fourth book, The Middlesteins, was published in October 2012. It appeared on The New York Times bestseller list, and was published in ten countries in 2013. It was also a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the St. Francis College Literary Prize. Her fifth book, Saint Mazie, was described by The New York Times Book Review as, “full of love and drink and dirty sex and nobility.” Her sixth book, All Grown Up, was a national bestseller, appearing on numerous year-end lists. Her most recent novel, All This Could Be Yours, for which Kirkus dubbed her, “poet laureate of difficult families,” also appeared on a number of year-end lists. In 2022 she published a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home, which USA Today called, “a fierce memoir of personal transformation.” She lives in New Orleans, LA.

KEITH F. MILLER, the author of the novels Pritty and his latest, Togetha (both published by HarperCollins), is an award-winning educator, artist, and researcher who studies healing literacies and their role in supporting BIPOC communities in healing, growing, and thriving through trauma. The founder of Healing By Any Means, LLC, Keith’s work powers people, projects, and healing-centered research in service of systems and narrative change through the arts. He is an executive producer of Pritty: The Animation, and he has an MFA in creative writing from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY.

DENNY S. BRYCE Denny S. Bryce is the bestselling, award-winning author of three novels The Other Princess, A Face in the Sun, and Wild Women and the Blues. She is also an NPR book critic, an adjunct professor at Drexel University, and a freelance writer who has written for Harper’s Bazaar and USA Today. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society, Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and Tall Poppy Writers. She is represented by Wendy Sherman at Wendy Sherman Associates Literary Managament.

WHAT IS SEERSUCKER LIVE? Seersucker Live is a 501(c)(3) literary arts non-profit in Savannah, Georgia that for over a decade has promoted the local literary community through reading performances, featuring national, regional, and local writers. Seersucker shows frame traditional literary readings in an entertaining and accessible format, with a special emphasis placed on presenting diverse writers to a diverse audience. Most importantly, Seersucker aims to treat literature with respect without taking themselves too seriously. Oh, and also, there’s always an open bar! The Book Lady is proud to be a co-sponsor of Seersucker Live events and you’ll always find us onsite selling books!