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An Evening with Nghi Vo

Culturally Speaking Author Series
2025-06-25 18:00:00 2025-06-25 20:00:00 America/New_York An Evening with Nghi Vo Join us for an evening with Nghi Vo, author of Hugo award winning novel The City in Glass. Book signing to follow. Main Library - Community Learning Center - Leighton Auditorium

Wednesday, June 25
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-06-25 18:00:00 2025-06-25 20:00:00 America/New_York An Evening with Nghi Vo Join us for an evening with Nghi Vo, author of Hugo award winning novel The City in Glass. Book signing to follow. Main Library - Community Learning Center - Leighton Auditorium

Join us for an evening with Nghi Vo, author of Hugo award winning novel The City in Glass. Book signing to follow.

Nghi Vo is an American author of short stories, novellas, and novels.

She is the author of the novels Siren Queen and The Chosen and the Beautiful, as well as the acclaimed novellas of the Singing Hills Cycle, which began with The Empress of Salt and Fortune. The series entries have been finalists for the Locus Award and the Lambda Literary Award, and have won the Crawford Award, the Ignyte Award, and the Hugo Award. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind.

Book signing to follow. Book sales provided by Brain Lair Books.

To check out books by Nghi Vo at SJCPL, click here. 

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REAL Services, in partnership with the St. Joe County Public Library and supported by the Florence V. Carroll Charitable Trust, may be able to provide transportation to attend Culturally Speaking events for individuals facing transportation barriers. 

If you require transportation, please contact Rachael Zeiger-Toppen, r.zeiger@sjcpl.org, 574.282.4658, and provide your name and contact information at least one week prior to the event. This information will be shared with REAL Services to coordinate transportation arrangements.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Literature & Writing |

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