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An in depth speaker series highlighting notable voices from the Sacramento community and beyond

Join us for this free speaker series for thoughtful conversations on topics that matter to our community. No advance registration is required for these live, in-person events.  

 
Mark Oshiro: Enters the Chat – September 29 from 4 - 6 p.m. at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria
Join bestselling author Mark Oshiro for a conversation celebrating the Freedom to Read.

Mark Oshiro is the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning Latinx queer author of Anger Is a Gift, Each of Us a Desert, and Into the Lightas well as their middle grade books The InsidersYou Only Live Once, David Bravo, and Star Wars Hunters: Battle for the Arena. They are the coauthor (with Rick Riordan) of The Sun and the Star: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure. When not writing, they are trying to pet every dog in the world.
 
 
 

Previously of Enters the Chat


Barbara Rae-Venter: Entered the Chat
Author Barbara Rae-Venter comes to Sacramento and Enters the Chat to talk all about her book, I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever.


Illyanna Maisonet: Entered the Chat
Illyanna Maisonet discussed her book, Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook. Described as a “delicious journey through purpose, place, and the power of food” Diasporican is a visual record of Puerto Rican food, ingredients, and techniques.

Christian Cooper: Entered the Chat
Christian Cooper joined us for a conversation all about his debut memoir, the NY Times best-selling book, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World


Gabby Rivera: Entered the Chat
Gabby Rivera dropped by Sacramento Public Library to talk all about her impressive work like her debut novel Juliet Takes a Breath and the solo Marvel comics series AMERICA about America Chavez, a portal-punching queer Latina powerhouse.


TJ Klune: Entered the Chat
Bestselling author TJ Klune was in conversation with the Big Gay Fiction Podcast to chat about publishing, writing, queer identity, book-banning, being neurodiverse, and the upcoming sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea.


It's not too late to join the conversation... watch previous Enters the Chat guests like Ear Hustle, Paul Holes, Ann Bannon and more on YouTube.