An Evening with Angeline Boulley, author of Firekeeper’s Daughter

Rhode Island Center for the Book presents an evening with Angline Boulley, the author of Firekeeper’s Daughter, the 2022 selection for Reading Across Rhode Island’s all-state read. Angeline Boulley will be in conversation with Jim Ludes, the Executive Director of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University.

Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper’s Daughter is her debut novel and was an instant #1 NYT Bestseller. It also won the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature (Teen category) in 2022.

Tickets are $35 and includes admission to the talk, reception with refreshments following Q&A. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

This event is supported in part by a sponsorship from the Humanities Council.