On Writing Memoir, Gender Violence, & Reparative Justice

Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore & Social Center: Literary Reading & Discussion: On Writing Memoir, Gender Violence, & Reparative Justice

Please join three Philadelphia writers for a reading from Lisa Nikolidakis’ new memoir, No One Crosses the Wolf, as well as an open discussion about the challenges posed by writing and publishing about real people, violence, and justice.

Speaker / Author bios

Lisa Nikolidakis’s memoir, No One Crosses the Wolf, about the traumas of a perilous childhood, a shattering murder-suicide, and a healing journey debuted in September 2022. It was selected by Amazon for its “First Reads” program; Vanity Fair named it one of “14 New Books to Read in September”; Buzzfeed picked it as the #1 of “15 Incredible Memoirs to Look Out for This Fall”; and it was chosen for Audible’s “Top 10 True Crime Books of 2022.” More information about her and her work can be found at www.lisanikolidakis.com

Piyali Bhattacharya is a fiction and nonfiction writer. Her edited anthology, Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion, received an Independent Publisher Book Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Annie Liontas‘ debut novel, Let Me Explain You (Scribner), was featured in The New York Times Book Review as Editor’s Choice and was selected by the ABA as an Indies Introduce Debut and Indies Next title. Annie served as a mentor for Pen City’s incarcerated writers, working with the Prison Writing Project at Connally Maximum Security Penitentiary. At GWU, she serves as co-PI for a Mellon grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. Her informed memoir, Sex with a Brain Injury, (Scribner) is out in 2024.