An Evening with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

Authors Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and Dawn Davies will come together for the release of their work featured in the new anthology “Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship.” The event is presented in partnership with Miami Book Fair.

Curated by B.K. Jackson, the anthology brings together 28 writers whose essays examine the experience of discovering previously unknown close relatives. The collection looks at questions of biological family, identity, inheritance and how new information can change a person’s understanding of kinship.

Cancio-Bello is the author of “Hour of the Ox,” winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and co-translator of Yi Won’s “The World’s Lightest Motorcycle.” She is also a co-founder of the Adoptee Literary Festival and serves as a programs and marketing supervisor for Miami Book Fair.