In collaboration with WTTW, PBS Books is honored to host this virtual engagement event with author Kelli Jo Ford on August 26th as part of the dynamic, sequel partnership with The Library of Congress for the 2021 Library of Congress National Book Festival “Open a Book, Open the World.”

Kelli Jo Ford's debut novel-in-stories Crooked Hallelujah (Grove Press) explores the lives and loves of a family of Cherokee women through four generations. "Hybrid Vigor," a story from Crooked Hallelujah, won The Paris Review's 2019 Plimpton Prize, and the manuscript for Crooked Hallelujah won the University of Central Oklahoma's 2019 Everett Southwest Literary Award. Ford has been awarded a National Artist Fellowship by the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, an Elizabeth George Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship, and a Katharine Bakeless Nason Award in Fiction by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Ford lives in Virginia with her gifted poet husband Scott Weaver and daughter, Cypress.  For more information about this dynamic author visit, kellijoford.com.