Shoemaker Visiting Lecturer: Tyriek White

Thank you to author Tyriek White, who spoke to our community this week as part of our Shoemaker Visiting Lecturer series! White, a writer, musician, and educator from Brooklyn, NY, is the author of the novel We Are a Haunting (Astra House, 2023), which won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, was a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize. He was named a 2024 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree and has received fellowships from Callaloo Writing Workshop, New York State Writer’s Institute, and Key West Literary Seminar, among other honors.

Tyriek visited our American Lit, Creative Writing, and Storytelling classes to discuss his experience, do some writing exercises with students, and joined students for the Black History Month Community Dinner before taking the stage with English teacher Kyle Layne-Allen for an enaging conversation. We are so grateful to him for sharing his time and wisdom with our community!

If you were unable attend the Shoemaker, you can watch a video of the livestream here, and you can enjoy the gallery of photos here.