COME EARLY, from 10-10:40 AM, to hear the Black Women Write panel talk at the Sacramento Book Festival, including these fascinating ladies:
BJ Davis
B.J. Davis uses poetry and poetic prose to open hearts and minds to the wonders and follies of everyday life, perhaps to stir a memory, perhaps to help heal.
Bee Jay Da-vis is a poet, a flash fiction storyteller, an attorney, and an advocate for self-realization. She’s a lover of action movies, live theater, and all genres of music, except heavy metal. Joining Black Women Write six years ago inspired her to pick up the pace on the writing she’s been doing since she was a thirteen-year-old growing up in Baton Rouge, LA. Her debut collection, True…At First: Poems, Musings & Flash Fiction, was published in 2020 and is available to buy on Amazon. Her latest publication is My Only Friends Are Pirates, an epic poem styled as an action/thriller. It is available on Amazon Kindle and in paperback. Her forthcoming book of guided meditations speaks to her deep faith and her desire to guide others towards inner peace.
She draws inspiration from a variety of places and spaces, including science fiction, her New Orleans birthplace, Mississippi and North Carolina ancestors (especially her grandfather,) and the Navajo Indian Reservation on which she lived and worked for a goodly spell. She currently resides in Sacramento, CA with her husband and the ghosts of two sweet cats.
RoseMary Covington
Rosemary Covington’s fiction let’s you inhabit the loves and longings of well imagined and colorful characters who we can’t help but root for as they move through life’s challenges and share unexpectedly delightful moments.
Character-Driven Fiction
RoseMary Covington Morgan left a successful career as a transit planning and development executive manager to accept a new challenge as an author. She has been writing character driven fiction for almost six years.
Since beginning this new adventure, RoseMary has published the short story, “The Song” in the anthology Storytellers-Tales from the Rio Vista Writers’ group. She also has 3 short stories, “My Big Red Shadow”, “T’was” and “School Shopping” and two poems published in the Northern California Publishers Anthologies. Her short story, Minnow Mildred, appeared in the California Writers Club publication, Visions.
She has published novel, Swimming Through Mud, and one novella, The Dancer. Her collection of short stories, Slices of American Lives will be available in February 2025.
She currently lives in Sacramento, CA.
Kathy Lynne Marshall
Kathy Lynne Marshall isn’t just a genealogist, she’s a historical detective, giving voice to the forgotten. She honed her writing skills as a researcher, analyst, technical writer, and human resources manager at the California Highway Patrol for 36 years. Now in retirement, she employs meticulous research and a touch of creative empathy, to unearth the stories of women, African Americans and other unsung heroes who ALSO shaped America. Imagine experiencing history through the eyes of those who lived it–that’s the power of Kathy’s “speculative nonfiction.” But she doesn’t stop there. She empowers others to reclaim their heritage, leading workshops and sharing her successful research and self-publishing secrets so anyone can become the author of their family story.
Kathy has been featured in Sacramento Magazine, The Sacramento Bee, The Sacramento Observer, Sacramento News & Review, and Elk Grove Citizen. She has been interviewed on CBS-TV, Fox40-TV for the annual Genealogy Seminar in Sacramento, as well as on several podcasts. She has delighted audiences at local and national genealogy and writing conferences.
Kathy’s books are available on Amazon, other online booksellers, and her website: KathyLynneMarshall.com. As Kanika Marshall, she wrote a book of fictional short stories called Dreamscapes: Where Fantasy, Suspense and Joy Intersect.
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Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Bookfair. Come at 10 AM for the Black Women Write panel discussion.