# Event Details - **Event Name**: Joseph Osmundson in Person - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us on Wednesday, June 17 at 7 PM as Joseph Osmundson talks about his new book, Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood.About this EventJoin us on Wednesday, June 17 at 7 PM as Joseph Osmundson talks about his new book, Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood. He will be joined in conversation by Andrea Lawlor.About the BookNBCC and Lambda Literary Award finalist Joseph Osmundson chronicles his journey toward and away from parenthood to ask how we create and nurture queer families.Since grade school, Joseph Osmundson dreamed of being pregnant. As he grew into the queer scientist he is today, the economic precarity of academia and the warming planet led to his decision not to reproduce. That is, until a couple he had known since college, two women, came to him with a proposition: would Joe be a bio-dad and would he co-parent alongside them?Soon everything was falling into place. But when the two mothers communicated their need for a child to reflect their own racial backgrounds, Joe's whiteness exposed fault lines in their parenting journey. Spawning Season is a genre-bending memoir that treats the scientific as integral to the personal and that builds an entire species of the grief we carry in our bodies. In exploratory prose that builds on the work of Donna Haraway and José Esteban Muñoz, Osmundson considers the ethics of child-rearing in the 21st century, the brutal wonder of caregiving, and the joys and intricacies of building family beyond biology.About the AuthorJoseph Osmundson is a professor of microbiology at New York University and the author of Virology. His work has been published in leading biological journals including Cell and PNAS and in the New York Times, the Atlantic, TIME, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He lives and works in New York City.About Andrea LawlorAndrea Lawlor is the author of a novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (Vintage), as well as two chapbooks, Position Papers Vol.1 (Factory Hollow) & Position Papers Vol.2 (Belladonna*). They teach creative writing at Mount Holyoke College. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/south-hadley/joseph-osmundson-in-person/100001984147816531 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - door_time: 2026-06-17T22:30:00Z - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Odyssey Bookshop - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: South Hadley - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Odyssey Bookshop - **lat**: 42.259151 - **long**: -72.57602 - **full address**: Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Joseph Osmundson in Person - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/73a5a1932e099323d45af91a071553956e3b7ea21aa0d690510c2b228688d9e5-rimg-w1200-h863-dc90908f-gmir.jpg?v=1772238893 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Joseph Osmundson in Person being held? - **A:** Joseph Osmundson in Person takes place on Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Joseph Osmundson in Person? - **A:** Joseph Osmundson in Person is organized by Odyssey Bookshop. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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