The cover of “We Arrive Uninvited” by Jen Knox and the cover of “The Geography of Kisses” by Karin Cecile Davidson are on the left side of the graphic, while photos of Knox and Davidson are on the right. In between the photos is text that reads: “Jen Knox & Karin Cecile Davidson, in conversation, May 25th at 6:30pm
Prologue Bookshop is proud to present Jen Knox and Karin Cecile Davidson for an in-store conversation with each other about their newly released books, "We Arrive Uninvited" (Knox) and "The Geography of First Kisses" (Davidson).
This event will take place on May 25th at 6:30pm in the bookstore.
RSVP to the event using the Eventbrite link below.
Jen Knox was a high school dropout who went on to find purpose through writing, which led her to earn a BA in English from Otterbein University (cum laude) and an MFA from Bennington College. Now, her short fiction and creative nonfiction are taught in classrooms and appear in over a hundred publications around the world, including The Best Small Fictions (edited by Amy Hempel), Chicago Tribune, Chicago Quarterly Review, Room Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. Her collections include The Glass City (Prize Americana winner), Resolutions (AUX Media), and After the Gazebo (a Pen/Faulkner nominee). Jen’s chapbook of flash fiction, Dandelion Ghosts, was released in 2021, and she is currently working on a craft book about how to write compelling fiction.
A tender coming-of-age story set in the Ohio flatlands that plays deftly with mystery and the wonders of female power and intuition. Jen Knox explores with insight and wisdom the “hysteria” that women were, and still are, often labeled with, and counsels us to connect with the “pulse of the earth” and to each other. A talented writer exhibiting her own intuition, Knox understands that our greatest fear is loneliness. In We Arrive Uninvited, she gifts us myriad ways to find a cure.
Purchase a copy of We Arrive Uninvited here.
Karin Cecile Davidson is the author of the story collection The Geography of First Kisses, winner of the 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2023), and the novel Sybelia Drive (Braddock Avenue Books, 2020). Her stories have appeared in Five Points, Story, The Massachusetts Review, Colorado Review, Passages North, Post Road, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Waasmode Short Fiction Prize, the Orlando Prize for Short Fiction, a Peter Taylor Fellowship, and residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and The Studios of Key West. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she now lives in Columbus, Ohio.
In The Geography of First Kisses, one finds portrayals of quiet elegance reminiscent of early-20th-century art films. The fourteen ethereal stories are tethered to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana, the fields of Iowa and Oklahoma, the pine woods of Florida, places where girls and women seek love and belonging, and instead discover relationships as complicated, bewildering, even sorrowful. Saturated with poetic illusion and powered with prose of a dark, pulsating circuitry, the collection combines joy, heartache, and tenacity in a manner sorely missed in today's super-structured literature.
Purchase a copy of The Geography of First Kisses here.
A book signing will take place after the conversation.