Join us to celebrate the publication of “When We Were Gun,” by Croton-on-Hudson author and winner of the 2025 Louisville Review National Poetry Prize, Deborah Schupack. Deborah will be in conversation with award-winning writer Kathryn Davis, author of nine books and senior faculty member at Washington University’s writing program.
About the book
Deborah Schupack's fourth book, "When We Were Gun," occupies a narrative space between poetry and prose and a psychic space between everyday and end-of-the-world. The twenty narrative poems are told in a "Greek chorus" of parent voices as they wait outside the scene of a school shooting, forging a remarkable chronicle of the ordinary exigency of parenting. Winner of the 2025 Louisville Review National Poetry Prize, “When We Were Gun” is published by Fleur-de-Lis Press.
About Deborah
Author of the award-winning "When We Were Gun," Deborah Schupack has also written two novels, "The Boy on the Bus" and "Sylvan Street," and the narrative nonfiction book "Relentless" about the science and medicine of Covid pandemic. She lives in Croton-on- Hudson.
About Kathryn
Kathryn Davis is the author of the memoir Aurelia, Aurélia, as well as eight novels, including The Silk Road and Duplex. She has won many national writing awards, including the Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is the senior fiction writer on the faculty of The Writing Program at Washington University.