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

11:15 am to 12:15 pm

State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A

Relationships and Realizations: Short Stories

with Annell López, Christopher Lowe, Julia Ridley Smith, and moderator A.E. Rooks

Moderator