New Nonfiction Panel w/ Alison Kinney, Anjali Enjeti, & Nicole Walker in Conversation with Wendy Walters
Join us for a triple book launch celebrating new nonfiction releases by Alison Kinney, Anjali Enjeti, & Nicole Walker, with Wendy Walters!
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Celebrate three brand-new works of nonfiction, all centered on personal and political narratives of resistance! This panel features United States of Rejection by Alison Kinney, Ballot by Anjali Enjeti, and How to Plant a Billion Trees by Nicole Walker. The panel will be moderated by Wendy Walters.
Books will be available for purchase from Books Are Magic.
Alison Kinney is the author of United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate & Hope (May 2026), Avidly Reads Opera, and Hood. Her writing on cultural history, politics, the arts, and social justice has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, Lapham’s Quarterly, The New York Times, and other publications. She teaches creative nonfiction at Eugene Lang College at The New School.
Anjali Enjeti is the award-winning author of The Parted Earth and Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change. Her third book, Ballot, describes voting and voting rights from her perspective as a Georgia voter, poll worker, and electoral organizer, who has volunteered for the campaigns of Jon Ossoff, Stacey Abrams, Reverend Raphael Warnock, and others. Her writing has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Harper's Bazaar, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Antioch University in Los Angeles and Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia.
Nicole Walker is the author of How to Plant a Billion Trees: A Memoir of Childhood Trauma and the Healing Power of Nature and Writing the Hard Stuff: Turning Difficult Subjects into Meaningful Prose from Bloomsbury, as well as Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster, The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet, Sustainability: A Love Story, Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, and Quench Your Thirst with Salt. She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story with Sean Prentissand with Margot Singer, Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction; edits the Crux series at University of Georgia press and nonfiction at Diagram; and teaches creative writing and serves as the Writer-in-Residence for the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University.
Wendy S. Walters is the author of Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal; Troy, Michigan; and Dead White. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The Yale Review, BOMB, and others. She is a recipient of fellowships from Creative Capital, The Architectural League of New York, NYFA, and Mass MoCA. For The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she cocurated the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recastwhich was called “a master class in presenting complicated, troubling art.” She is an associate professor of nonfiction in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.
