Sat, Nov 08
|Texas Capitol - Extension Room: E2.010
Torch x Texas Book Festival featuring Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly
Join this Torch panel at the Texas Book Festival!
Time & Location
Nov 08, 2025, 10:15 AM
Texas Capitol - Extension Room: E2.010, 1100 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701, USA
About the event
Join us for a conversation featuring Tiana Clark, author of Scortch Earth, and Donika Kelly, author of The Natural Order of Things!
Join Tiana Clark and Donika Kelly for a conversation that spans love, survival, joy, and the Black experience. Clark’s Scorched Earth takes readers through the borders of ruined and radical love, navigating divorce, the first Black Bachelorette, and the art world with lyrical precision, blending reverence and irreverence in a celebration of queer, Black joy. Kelly’s The Natural Order of Things explores the possibilities of life beyond survival, exploring intimacy, connection, and the reparative power of relationships with people, animals, and the natural world. In this conversation presented by Torch Literary Arts, Clark and Kelly illuminate the beauty, pain, and resilience woven into Black life.
Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collections Scorched Earth; I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood, which won the…