Dear colleagues,

In honor of Women’s History Month, and in celebration of International Women’s Day, the UTC Library is thrilled to welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Wells for a livestream reading and conversation. We’re streaming to YouTube, so you are invited and welcome to attend this public event!

Rebecca’s beloved novels, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere, and Ya-Yas in Bloom, as well as The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, showcase the enduring, beautiful, funny, heartbreaking, and wondrous relationships among women. Rebecca explores the complex bond between mothers and daughters; the necessity and delight of female friendship; the mixed inheritance that (to use Rebecca’s phrase) the Cult of Southern Lady-hood conveys; and the shape-shifting power of the Divine Feminine. Rebecca’s work, translated into 23 different languages, is universal. But her soil is the soul of the American South, and nobody works it like she does.

Join us as Rebecca shares her own “divine secrets” of love and loss, illness and health, and ultimately, her abiding faith in the deep healing that creativity can give. This vibrant and heartfelt event will take place Monday, March 8 from 4:00pm – 5:30pm EST on the UTC Library’s YouTube Channel.

Rebecca welcomes the opportunity to share her work virtually, including speaking, performing, teaching, and one-on-one creativity coaching. To inquire about booking costs and to schedule your own event, please contact [log in to unmask].

Hope to see you on Monday!

Chantelle Swaren (She/Hers)

Outreach and Assessment Librarian

UTC Library

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga