My Chapter 16 Q&A with Kathlyn J. Kirkwood
January 25th, 2022 by jules
Over at Tennessee’s Chapter 16, I talk to Kathlyn J. Kirkwood about her new middle-grade memoir in verse.
In Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round: My Story Of The Making Of Martin Luther King Day (Versify, January 2022) with illustrations by Steffi Walthall, Kirkwood shares memories of her growing civic awareness and activism as a teenager in Memphis as well as her decades-long struggle to turn Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday into a national holiday.
Our chat is here.
Photo of Dr. Kirkwood is © Padrion Scott, Sr. / P. Scott Photography.
