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Prologue Bookshop is proud to present Emily Hilliard for an in-store author event.

The event will take place on March 27th at 6:00 p.m.

RSVP using the Eventbrite link below.

Emily Hilliard is the Program Director for Folk and Traditional Arts at Mid Atlantic Arts, managing the Central Appalachia Living Traditions program. She is also a 2020-2021 American Folklife Center Archie Green Fellow, for a project documenting rural mail carriers in Central Appalachia. From 2015-2021, Hilliard worked as the West Virginia State Folklorist and Founding Director of the West Virginia Folklife Program at the West Virginia Humanities Council. She holds an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina, and a B.A. in English and French from the University of Michigan. Her book, Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in November 2022.

Hilliard has been a faculty member of the University of Michigan's New England Literature Program, and currently teaches in Marshall University's Graduate Humanities Program.

Her research and writing interests include foodways, vernacular music, occupational folklife, feminism and domestic space, and the intersections between traditional, experimental, and radical culture.

Buy a copy of her book here.