Events › Meet & Greet with Author Kai Harris

In Celebration of Silicon Valley Reads(SVR), and Black History Month (BHM), please join the San Jose Public Library System and our Community Engagers in welcoming Author Kai Harris to The San Jose Club House for engaging conversation and refreshments!  What the Fireflies Knew was recently nominated for a NAACP Image Award, which honors “outstanding achievements and performances of people of color”.

Dr. Kai Harris is a writer and educator from Detroit, Michigan who uses her voice to uplift the Black community through realistic fiction centered on the Black experience.   Her critically acclaimed debut novel What the Fireflies Knew is a Marie Claire Book Club pick, Book of the Month add-on, and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Kai’s writing, which centers on the Black experience, has appeared in Guernica, Lit Hub, Kweli Journal, Longform, and the Hilltop Review, amongst others. In addition to fiction, Kai has published poetry, personal essays, and peer-reviewed academic articles on topics related to Black girlhood/womanhood, the slave narrative genre, and Black identity.   Kai currently  resides in the Bay Area with her husband, three daughters, and dog Tabasco, where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Santa Clara University.

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