Melanated Reader Presents:

Join Crystal and Maisy Card, author of These Ghosts Are Family, on IG Live

12/14/2020 @ 6pm EST

Maisy Card is a writer and a public librarian. Her debut novel, These Ghosts are Family, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and was shortlisted for The Center For Fiction's First Novel Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Lenny Letter, AGNI, Lit Hub, Guernica and other publications. Her short story, "The True Death of Abel Paisley," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2018. Maisy was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica, but was raised in Jamaica, New York. She earned an MFA from Brooklyn College, an MLIS from Rutgers University and a BA in English and American Studies from Wesleyan University. She is currently an instructor for Sackett Street Writers' Workshop.