Literary Salon: Pen Parentis

Readers are Domenica Ruta, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto and Marina Budhos

Domenica Ruta is the author of a memoir of growing up with a drug-addicted mother, With or Without You, which was a New York Times Bestseller.  She is a co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays that celebrates single motherhood and includes work by Amy Poehler, Anne Lamott and Ariel Gore.

Travel writer, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, is the author of the memoir Hiroshima in the Morning, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle. Her debut novel, Why She Left Us, won an American Book Award. She was the first woman to graduate from Columbia College with a BA in Astrophysics.

Marina Budhos has written several award-winning novels, including Watched, Ask Me No Questions, Tell Us We’re Home, and The Professor of Light. She has twice been a recipient of a NJ Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship to India, and was honored by the Walter Award and the Asian Pacific Award in Literature. 

Featured authors, all parents, read from their novels and participate in a Q&A generally centered on craft and time-work balance.

RSVP is recommended: penparentis.org/calendar