New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh, Cole Arthur Riley, will speak at Cincinnati’s Knox Presbyterian Church at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 25. Riley’s appearance is part of the Knox Church’s Tom York Lecture Series and is open to the public. It is also supported by The Hyde Park Church Collective.
The event will offer a 45- to 60-minute lecture followed by 30-minute Q&A. There is no admission charge; however, donations are encouraged to help fund this and future lectures. Registration for Riley’s appearance is at knox.org/cole.
Riley’s debut book, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us, was an instant New York Times bestseller. She followed that book with Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post.
Cole also is the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Curator.
Cole Arthur Riley was born and raised in Pittsburgh. She studied writing at the University of Pittsburgh, but traces her love of words back to her father, who would bribe her and her siblings to write poems and stories to get out of chores, or for cold hard cash; and her gramma who was part writer, part sage. Some thinkers who have formed her include Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler, James Baldwin, Thomas Merton, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Julian of Norwich.
Seating for Riley’s appearance is limited and can be reserved at www.knox.org/cole
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