FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bluffton, SC –
Author Talk with Tara Lynn Masih at The Roasting Room on Monday, March 10, 2025
Featured Book: My Real Name is Hanna
Libraries for Kids, International www.libraries4kids.org is pleased to announce an author talk
featuring Tara Lynn Masih from 10:30 to 11:30 am at the Roasting Room, 1297 May River Road,
Bluffton, SC. The event is free and open to the public; however, a $5 donation is suggested. Books
will be available for sale, courtesy of The Storybook Shoppe – A Children's book shop
Following the author's talk, attendees are invited to join the author for an optional Dutch Treat lunch.
This informal gathering offers a chance for further conversation in a relaxed atmosphere.
Space is limited, so reservations are necessary, and early arrival is recommended. For more
information or to RSVP, please contact Tamela Maxim at 843.683.4100 or
tamela.maxim@libraries4kids.org.
Tara Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award for
Young Readers for her debut novel My Real Name Is Hanna. Her anthologies include The Rose Metal
Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning
Essays. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories, her latest collection, won a 2022 Florida Book
Award, and she’s published multiple chapbooks with the Feral Press archived in universities such as
Yale and NYU. She founded the Intercultural Essay Prize in 2006 and The Best Small Fictions series
in 2015.
Masih received a finalist fiction grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, an Inspirational
Woman in Literature Award from AITL Media, and several national book awards, including an IBPA
Benjamin Franklin Award, for her work as an editor.
Tara Lynn Masih Homepage – TaraMasih
About Libraries for Kids:
Libraries for Kids, International is a 501(c)(3) organization providing leisure and reference books to
schools in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda for recreational and supplemental reading. Libraries for
Kids works exclusively with schools with little or no electricity or internet access in communities facing
significant environmental, climatic, and cultural challenges.
Contact:
Tamela Maxim, Board Member, Libraries for Kids, International, tamela.maxim@libraries4kids.org,
843.683.4100