For Amherst College’s annual LitFest, 2022 National Book Award Nonfiction Finalists Ingrid Rojas Contreras (The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir) and Meghan O’Rourke (The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness) read from their work, and discuss crafting personal narratives informed by cultural, historical, and scientific contexts.

Moderated by Dennis James Sweeney, author of In the Antarctic Circle and a lecturer in English at Amherst College.

This program is supported by Amherst College and The Common magazine.