Register 97 Seats Remaining

Lit Chat Interview with Tiya Miles

This Lit Chat Interview is a 60-minute program consisting of a 40-minute conversation between author Tiya Miles and interviewer Tammy Cherry followed by 20 minutes of audience Q&A. A book signing will follow, with books available for sale on site by local bookstore, San Marco Books and More.

Tiya Miles is the author of eight books, including four prize-winning histories about race and slavery in the American past. She is a two-time winner of Yale’s Frederick Douglass Prize and a two-time winner of the National Council on Public History Book Award. Her latest work is Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. Her 2021 National Book Award winner, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, was a New York Times bestseller that won eleven historical and literary prizes, including the Cundill History Prize. All That She Carried was named A Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, NPR, Publisher’s Weekly, The Atlantic, Time, and more. Her other nonfiction works include Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, The Dawn of Detroit, Tales from the Haunted South, The House on Diamond Hill, and Ties That Bind. Miles publishes essays and reviews in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and other media outlets, and she is the author of the novel, The Cherokee Rose, a ghost story set in the Native American plantation South.

Miles has consulted with colleagues at historic sites and museums on representations of slavery, African American material culture, and the Black-Indigenous intertwined past, including, most recently, the Fabric of a Nation quilt exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her work has been supported by a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Miles was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and she is currently the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University.

This Lit Chat Interview is presented as part of the Library's Mellon Foundation Grant. It is a part of Jax Book Fest 2025: Writer’s Day!

Did you know that all of our Lit Chat authors' books count toward your Jax Stacks Reading Challenge completion? Find out what other authors we're hosting this year and join in the fun! 

Registration is required for this event, and must be completed 3 days prior to the start time. A library card and PIN are required for registration. If you do not have a card, click HERE to obtain one.

PLEASE NOTE:

1. Seating for the program will begin at 3:30 pm.

2. Registered attendees will be seated first come, first serve. Bring your library card (physical or on the JaxLibrary app) for faster check-in.

3. Waitlisted attendees and walk-ins will be seated if seats are available. There may be a short wait as registered customers are seated.

4. All registered seats will be forfeited at 3:55 pm and made available to waitlisted and walk-in attendees. Registered attendees arriving after this time will be seated if seats are available. 

5. A limited number of books will be available for sale on site by San Marco Books & More. Books can be pre-ordered on their sit and picked up at the program. 

Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodations for persons with disabilities are available upon request. Please allow 1–2 business days to process. Last-minute requests will be accepted, but may not be possible to fulfill. Please ask for Learning Services at 255-2665 or email JPLPrograms@coj.net.

Upcoming events