DRUGS, WAR & SIGN LANGUAGE

Hosted by Tulsa Artist Fellow Matt Gallagher
Featuring Translator and Activist Sara Nović

IMAGE: Excerpt from Goddesses of Water by Jeannette L. Clariond. Translation by Samantha Schnee

Tulsa Artist Fellowship programming is free and open to all. Registration required.
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Please join us for an online conversation on Wednesday, May 10, at 6 pm CT with bestselling author, translator and deaf-rights' activist Sara Nović. Her second novel True Biz was released in 2022. The book follows Charlie at River Valley School for the Deaf as she deals with a faulty cochlear implant and meets other deaf people for the first time in her life. The book was chosen as a pick for Reese Witherspoon's book club and was reviewed as "moving, fast-paced and spirited — we have vivid access to all of the main characters’ points of view — but also skillfully educational" by The New York Times.

Nović's 2015 debut novel, 'Girl at War,' tells the story of Ana Jurić, a ten-year-old girl whose life is upended by the civil war that resulted in the dissolution of Yugoslavia. She's also the author of the 2019 illustrated collection 'America Is Immigrants' and holds an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University. She lives in Philadelphia with her family, where she is an instructor of Deaf studies and creative writing.

The conversation will be facilitated by Tulsa Artist Fellow Matt Gallagher and held in collaboration with the Words After War writing workshop and New York University's Cultures of War Research Collaborative.