Four years ago our co-op had the honor of hosting the launch of AK Press' Black Dawn Series with author adrienne maree brown and series editor Sanina Clark. Now these two incredible dreamers are returning to discuss the powerful conclusion of adrienne's Grievers Trilogy.
Ancestors is a story of how life blooms amid tragedy and hate. In the wake of a mysterious pandemic known as Syndrome H-8, the survivors of a ravaged and isolated Detroit are building a future inside the network of deserted skyscrapers that define the city's skyline.
adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her collaborations, and her podcasts. Informed by twenty-five years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E. Butler scholarship, and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured emergent strategy, pleasure activism, radical imagination, and transformative justice as ideas and practices for change. Some of her books include Emergent Strategy, the New York Times–bestseller Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel Us, Loving Corrections, and her two prior novellas in this series, Grievers and Maroons.
Sanina L. Clark is a nonbinary, speculative fiction editor and drag artist with a background in journalism, theatre and childhood literacy. They are the editor of Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve (longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature) and the the creator of the Black Dawn Series under AK Press, a speculative novella series. Their bookcase is filled with YA, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, horror, plays and queer literature.
