The Lost Songs of Nina Simone with Shonda Buchanan

Join us for an evening of bold and beautiful storytelling with author Shonda Buchanan. Shonda will be celebrating her newest title, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone, as well as her memoir, Black Indian.

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About the Book:

Nina Simone's ghost lives in these poems by award-winning author, Shonda Buchanan. Like the icon's life and art, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone is complex, daring, sensuous, hard and soft all at once.

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About the Author:

Shonda Buchanan is the author of The Lost Songs of Nina Simone (May 2025) and the award-winning memoir, Black Indian, chosen by PBS NewsHour as a “Top 20 books to read to learn about institutional racism.” Shonda has published in The Mississippi Review, the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, Indian Country Today, Capital & Main, Westways Magazine, Sisters of AARP and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

Twice Pushcart Prize nominee, a Best of the Net nominee, California Arts Council Established Artist Fellow and Oxfam Ambassador, Shonda is a USC Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities Fellow, a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Department of Cultural Affairs Master Artist Fellow. An Oxfam Ambassador and PEN Emerging Voices Fellow and Mentor, Shonda’s works-in-progress are America's Bloodflowers and Children of the Mixed Blood Trail. For more information, visit www.shondabuchanan.com