Event Speaker: Lue Palmer

Lue Palmer is a writer of prose and poetry on Black relationships to nature, the fantastic in the everyday, and the retelling of history. They have roots in Portland, Jamaica and are currently at work on their first novel, The Hungry River. Lue is beginning a new facet of their career in climate work, writing about environmental racism in New Orleans. They were a recipient of the 2021 Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship, an alumni of the Clarion West Program and a recent graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.