Rose Gordy - Book Reading

Join us at the Oakland Library on Thursday, October 24th, 2019 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm for a book reading by author Rose Gordy.

She will be reading excerpts from "The Waltz Of Choice", "The Green That Never Died", and "Dream Poetry In Flow."

There will be select books available for purchase during this time as well.

Read more about the author below:

"Rose Gordy spent thirteen years of her early life as a nun effectively cut off from the world. In spite of the conditions within the Church, she managed to leave and make a life for herself including getting married and having children. Through her experiences in the convent as well as decades of teaching in the classroom, she has woven compelling stories and poems honoring the lives lost and changed forever by adversity. Rose Gordy is also a veteran secondary English teacher, speech and debate coach, dream counselor, and published poet, essayist and short story writer. She earned a Masters Degree in English and French from the University of Notre Dame and has been writing and teaching for most of her life. She resides in the Washington, D.C. area and Deep Creek Lake, MD".