Come say hello to author and University of Alabama Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Brooke Champagne! She will be chatting with readers and signing copies of NOLA FACE: A LATINA’S LIFE IN THE BIG EASY, her heartbreaking and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up in New Orleans in a feisty family, and finding her own footing amidst its topsy-turvy terrain. Brooke Champagne is the author of Nola Face: A Latina’s Life in the Big Easy. She was awarded the inaugural William Bradley Prize for the Essay, and her work has been selected as Notable in several editions of the Best American Essays anthology series. She is the recipient of the 2023-2024 Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship in Prose. She lives in Tuscaloosa, where she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA Program at the University of Alabama.