Knox is Lit

Knox is Lit!
A Book Reading, Book Signing and Open Mic Event

Saturday, October 26, 2024
1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Book Reading
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Open Mic and Book Signing
Sponsored by the Class of 1994
Whitcomb Art Gallery

Featured Readers

Tammy Rosen '94
Tammy, writing as Renee Rose, has hit the USA Today list 15 times and sold over two million copies of her steamy romance novels. Her books have been featured in USA Today's Happily Ever After and Popsugar and can be frequently found on Barnes and Noble's Top Indie Picks list, Apple Book's Most Anticipated Pre-Orders, and Amazon's Top New Releases. Passionate about helping other authors find and maintain an abundant mindset to catapult their careers, she is the author of the non-fiction book Write to Riches: 7 Steps to Manifest Abundance from Your Books and the coach of the corresponding course. She lives in Tucson, Arizona where she is plotting more books than she knows how to write.

Write to Riches: geni.us/write2riches
Big Bad Boss:  geni.us/bbbmidnight
Alpha King:  geni.us/alphaking

Tasha Coryell '10
Tasha lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband and son. She holds BA in creative writing from Knox College and an MFA and PhD from the University of Alabama. Her debut novel, Love Letters to a Serial Killer, was published in June 2024 by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Love Letters to a Serial Killer: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735555/love-letters-to-a-serial-killer-by-tasha-coryell/

Glenda Bailey-Mershon '74
Glenda grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains, among a family of mixed heritage, who worked farms and textile mills. She has been a bobbin threader, a bartender, a university administrator, a bookstore and small press owner, and has taught writing, anthropology, women’s studies, and history. Her publications include Weaver’s Knot (Finishing Line Press, 2023); the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014); several short collections; and four volumes as editor of anthologies. Her work has appeared in publications as varied as The Daily
Beast and Appalachian Review, and has been frequently anthologized. She co-founded Jane’s Stories Press Foundation, which offers the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, and writes the popular Substack newsletter, The Inspiration Shelf. She is an activist for women, civil rights, and Romani culture.

Weaver’s Knot:  www.finishinglinepress.com/product/weavers-knot-by-glenda-bailey-mershon/

Eve’s Garden:  www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eves-garden-glenda-bailey-
mershon/1119462403?ean=9781940189055

Bess Cooley '12
Bess's poetry collection, Florence, is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in November 2024. She is a winner of the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize and her work has also appeared in Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, American Literary Review, The Journal, and Verse Daily, among other journals. She is co-founding editor of Peatsmoke Journal and teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Florence: sundresspublications.com

Featured Artist

Melanie Brown '94
Melanie is an exhibiting painter and teaching artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois by way of Colrain, Massachusets and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Melanie has performed live painting during collaborations with Ryan Ingebritsen, Jeff Yang, Eric Mahle, and the Ursa Ensemble. She also performs live painting regularly during concerts at Fulton Street Collective. A long time teacher and former program director at Lillstreet Art Center, Melanie has been painting and teaching for 19 years in Chicago alongside children and adults of all ages. Melanie holds a BA from Knox College and an MFA in Painting from The American University in Washington, DC.

Featured Musician

José A. Ponce '94
Jose is an artist, musician, sound engineer living in Southern California. Performs around the inland empire with several different bands including the Thin Heirs and The Passports. Has music featured in the documentary Fastest Woman on Earth as a member of Rah Stones on HBO MAX. Has commissioned public art on display in Claremont, California and Los Angeles, California.