Join us for a special edition of Writing to Heal with the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System with author Catherine Simone Gray. Free copies of Proud Flesh will be available while supplies last.

Proud Flesh is a searing portrait of a mother’s body—a resurrection and reclamation of pleasure after abuse, a study of intergenerational trauma, and a love letter to the bodies of women: as alive and unbound as the teeming Mississippi wilds that bear witness.

Catherine Simone Gray is a writer and educator whose writings on her blog Unsilenced Woman have captivated audiences globally of up to 2.5 million. She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship by the Mississippi Arts Commission and has been published in The Bitter Southerner. Her writings on motherhood has been shared by respected organizations for new mothers, such as La Leche League, International Cesarean Awareness Network, and ImprovingBirth. She lives in Jackson, Mississippi with her husband and their two children.

Book giveaway sponsored by the Friendly City Books Community Connection, a special project of the CREATE Foundation.