A.E. Rooks is the author of The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade, winner of the Maritime Foundation’s Mountbatten Award for Best Book in 2022. A Jeopardy! champion who’s additionally received two national awards for sex positive journalism, Rooks’s literary passions are united by what the past can teach us about the present, how history shapes our future, and above all, really interesting stories.

Schedule

10:00 am to 10:45 am
Outside Museum, North Tent
American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives
Robert W. Fieseler with moderator A.E. Rooks

11:15 am to Noon
Bienville Building, Conference Center 118
In the Shadow of the South: Memoirs of Prejudice, Truth, and Hope
Larry Bagneris, Call Me Larry: A Creole Man’s Triumph over Racism and Homophobia
Adam Gussow, My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir
with moderator A.E. Rooks

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Between Confession and Concealment: Short Stories of the Modern Soul
Teresa Tumminello Brader, Secret Keepers: Stories
Daren Dean, The New Salvation and Other Stories
Jennifer Anne Moses, You’ve Told Me Before: Stories
with moderator A.E. Rooks

Moderator