Bernice L. McFadden is the National Bestselling Author of seven critically, acclaimed award winning novels, including the classics Sugar and The Warmest December.

In her latest release, Gathering of Waters, McFadden explores hatred, race, longing and lasting love. The book uses the murder of Emmitt Till as a central event. The New York Times review calls the book “beautiful and evocative.”

Ms. McFaddden will speak Saturday June 23 at 2:00pm in the Boyd Vance Theater at the Carver Museum and Cultural Center.

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Elizabeth Nunez immigrated to the US from Trinidad after completing high school there. She received a PhD in English from New York University and is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, the City University of New York.

Dr. Nunez is the author of eight novels. Boundaries (2011), her most recent novel, was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice. Boundaries is the story of Anna, a Caribbean immigrant who must navigate the customs of her native culture and deal with the literary segregation she encounters working for a major publisher.

Anna In-Between (2009) received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. It was selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence.

Nunez's other novels include Prospero's Daughter (2010 Trinidad and Tobago One Book, One Community selection; New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, 2006 Florida Center for the Literary Arts One Book, One Community selection, and 2006 Novel of the Year for Black Issues Book Review); Bruised Hibiscus (American Book Award); Discretion (short-listed for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award); Grace; Beyond the Limbo Silence (Independent Publishers Book Award in Multicultural fiction category); and When Rocks Dance.

Ms. Nunez will speak and sign her work on Saturday, June 23 at Noon in the Boyd Vance Theater at the Carver Museum and Cultural Center.

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