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The Ivy is delighted to invite you to an evening with the wonderful local author and playwright R. Eric Thomas, in celebration of his newest novel and YA debut, Kings of B'more! We're thrilled that Madison Mattison will join R. Eric Thomas in conversation.

Click here to order Kings of B'more!

R. Eric Thomas is the bestselling author of Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, a Read with Jenna book club pick featured on Today and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is the co-author of Reclaiming Her Time, a biography of Rep. Maxine Waters. He is also a television writer (AppleTV+’s Dickinson, FX’s Better Things), a playwright, and the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia and D.C. For four years, he was a senior staff writer at Elle.com where he wrote “Eric Reads the News.” Kings of B'more is his YA debut. Learn more at rericthomas.com.

Madison Mattison is a graduate of Goucher College and received her BA in Professional and Creative Writing. Madison has poems published in CHARM Lit Magazine and a short story published in Grub Street of Towson University. She currently works for a small non-profit organization called CHARM which focuses on highlighting and enhancing youth voices in Baltimore City. Madison is also a 2022 recipient of the Kratz Summer Writing Fellowship.

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