Author Event: Coming to the Table, Four Writers Serve It Up
Amy Ferris, Melissa Giberson, Sherry Amatenstein and C.O. Moed

Readings and discussions on sisterhood, motherhood, daughterhood and stepping into our own lives.

Moderated by Heather Sommerhayes Cariou.

C.O. Moed grew up on the Lower East Side when it was still a tough neighborhood. An alum of the infamous WOW Cafe, IT WAS HER NEW YORK (Rootstock Publishing), true stories and snapshots of undying love, old lesbians, all our fellow New Yorkers and home is available on Amazon and at local bookstores. She lives with fellow writer/Mets fan Ted Krever.

Amy Ferris is an author, a writer, a screenwriter, an editor and a playwright. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney, Confessions From a Midlife Crisis (Seal Press) was adapted into an Off-Broadway play in 2012. Amy has written for both the small screen (TV) and the big screen (Feature Films) and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Award (BET, Black Reel Award) for her adaptation of the film, Funny Valentines (Director, Julie Dash) she curated the anthology Shades of Blue, Writers on Depression, Suicide and Feeling Blue, and co-authored Old School Love (HarperCollins, 2020) with Rev Run of RUN DMC fame. Her new memoir, Mighty Gorgeous - A Little Book About Messy Love, is published by SheWritesPress.

Melissa Giberson is the award-winning author of Late Bloomer: Finding My Authentic Self at Midlife (She Writes Press). She has published articles in numerous online and in-print publications, including The Boston Globe, Salon, Kveller, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Gay & Lesbian Review, and Writer’s Digest. Her essay, “Art is the Antidote,” appears in the anthology Art In The Time of Unbearable Crisis.

Sherry Amatenstein, LCSW is the author of 3 books, editor of the anthology HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL: True Confessions From Both Sides of the Therapy Couch, and contributor to numerous publications including AARPethel.com and Shondaland. She’s taught workshops on women empowerment around the country, co-led a weekend retreat with Amy Ferris and Blair Glaser: Women Writing to Change the World, and is involved in a peacemaking project with Jewish and Muslim women. Howdoesthatmakeyoufeelbook.com

Heather Summerhayes Cariou, a 2016 post-graduate Fellow in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and recipient of the 2019 Kalanithi Prize Stanford Med, is the author of Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister’s Memoir. An actor/singer/dancer on stages across Canada and off-Broadway, she once paddle-captained a raft full of screaming women through Rogue River's Blossom Bar rapid at high water and made a full-Kabuki Thanksgiving dinner in a Baltimore hotel room for the cast and crew of a Broadway-bound musical. She is currently working on the story of her brother's double-lung transplant, and a stage adaptation of a memoir by Ann Burack-Weiss, The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's Life.