Emma Keeling – Content Editor  Harper Lee is a common household name known as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. She was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28th, 1926 in Alabama and was the youngest of four children. She attended Monroe County High School and developed an interest in […]

Brendan Lanier – Contributor  George Orwell was an English writer born in 1903 to middle-class English parents in Burma. After school, he chose to work for the Imperial Police in Burma. Finding this unsatisfying, he wandered around Paris and London living as a tramp and working in grimy restaurants. This was when he began writing. […]

BG Authors Staff This week on Book Talk with BG Authors, Mary Ross, with the help of guest contributors Emma Keeling, Orion Emerick, Nathan Halm and Kylie Tusing, highlights the books members of the BG Authors community is reading, books to read during Black History Month, and book related events in the Northwest Ohio area. […]

Emma Keeling – Content Editor However you’re spending this Valentine’s Day, whether it’s out to dinner with your partner, a cozy night in with a book, or getting ahead on some homework, I think we can all agree that dating and relationships in today’s world is no easy fleet. But it’s also one hundred percent […]

 Kylie Tusing | Content Creations Editor  February is National Black History Month and is a time when the black community is taught and celebrated across America. Though it is also a month for growth and learning how to become actively anti-racist. In this article, I want to share a series of books that share narratives […]

Emily Grether | Contributor With all the recent snowfall and cold winds, we are granted no better reason to stay inside and read. Here are some of my favorite books that  make me smile, even on the coldest and snowiest of days. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson “NIMONA is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack […]

By BG Authors Staff This is the first episode of our new podcast, Book Talk with BG Authors! This has been a long project in the making, but the contributors of BG Authors are ecstatic to finally be publishing this podcast. In this episode, we cover the history of BG Authors, the purpose of starting […]

Emma Keeling – Contributor In honor of National Signing Day on February 3rd, I wanted to take some time to write about a few influential sports memoirs relating to all different kinds of sports. Signing day for student athletes starts on February 3rd and goes all the way until August 1st this year, 2021. This time […]

Mary Ross | Site Director When I got the chance to meet with Cassandra Caverhill, I was captivated with her story and found myself having more of a conversation with her than an interview with her while we discussed poetry. She had sent me her chapbook in advance and found I had so many questions […]

Mary Ross | Site Director “Every summer, mayflies swan the shores of Lake St. Clair for a week’s time, before their bodies dry up and scatter like ashes. Set inside the blue-collar automotive town of Windsor, Ontario, Mayflies traces the trajectory of adolescence into adulthood…” so says the synopsis of Cassandra Caverhill’s newest poetry chapbook, […]