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Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children (winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Reader’s Choice Award), the novel Dora: A Headcase, and three books of short fiction. Her widely acclaimed memoir, The Chronology of Water, was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. Lidia received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. She lives and teaches in Oregon with her husband Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son, Miles. She is a very good swimmer.

Amber Tamblyn

Amber Tamblyn has been nominated for an Emmy, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award for her work in television and film, and is known for her work as Joan on the CBS television program Joan of Arcadia.  Her debut collection of poetry Free Stallion, won the Borders Book Choice Award for Breakout Writing in 2006.  Her work has since been published in New York Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle, Poets & Writers, Interview and others.  She is the Executive Producer of “The Drums Inside Your Chest”,  an annual poetry concert that showcases outstanding contemporary poets, and co-founder of the nonprofit Write Now Poetry Society which works to build an audience for unique poetry events. Her second book of poetry and prose Bang Ditto, published in 2009, was an Independent Best Seller.  She currently writes for The Poetry Foundation and is a poetry reviewer for Bust Magazine.  She lives in New York City with her betrothed, comedian David Cross.

Ann Friedman

Ann Friedman is a freelance journalist who writes about gender, media, technology, and culture. Former executive editor of GOOD Magazine, she is a frequent contributor to The Los Angeles Times, The Gentlewoman, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, ELLE, The Guardian, and Los Angeles magazine. Along with Aminatou Sow, she co-hosts the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, featuring engaging dialogues on friendship, pop culture, and politics.

Reservation Policy for Free Programs:
As most ALOUD at Central Library programs are free of charge, it is our policy to overbook. In the case of a FULL program your free reservation may not guarantee admission. We recommend arriving early. Space permitting, unclaimed reservations will be released to standby patrons at approximately 7 PM.

Standby Policy:
Standby numbers are distributed in person only one hour before the program, on a first-come, first-served, basis. There is no advance wait list for full programs. Standby patrons will be admitted subject to availability. Most programs will be available via podcast.

Book Signing Policy:
ALOUD is one of many free programs at the Los Angeles Public Library made possible by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. Most ALOUD author programs are followed by book signings. At least one copy of the author’s book must be purchased from The Library Store in order to participate in any post-program book signing, and you will be asked to show proof of purchase. Please be prepared to show your proof of purchase when you enter the book signing line. Proceeds support the Los Angeles Public Library.

Main Image: Book cover, The Book of Joan