Acclaimed fiction writer Dionne Irving will read from her latest short story collection, Islands, which explores colonialism, immigration, sexual discrimination, and class in the lives of Jamaican women who emigrate to London, Panama, France, Jamaica, and Florida. Her other work includes the novel Quint, based on a real-life Canadian family of quintuplets who became celebrities in the 1940s, and the essays such as “Treading Water” and “Do You Like to Hurt?” which were Notable essays in Best American Essay 2017 and 2019.