Tyra Manning and Karen Keilt Author Event

We are thrilled to welcome author Tyra Manning along with special guest Karen Keilt. Tyra will be discussing her new release, Your Turn: Ways to Celebrate Life Through Storytelling and Karen will present her memoir, The Parrot’s Perch. Each presentation will include an overview of the works and the inspiration behind them. There will also be time for questions from the audience. Signed copies of the books will be for sale. 

Former River Forest, Illinois resident, Dr. Tyra Manning earned her doctoral degree in education from the University of Kansas and went on to become one of the nation’s top school superintendents. Since her retirement, her mission has been to share her compelling life’s story of hope and redemption by encouraging readers to tell their own life stories through writing. Her first book, Where the Water Meets the Sand, is an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Gold winner in the Autobiography & Memoir category.

In Your Turn, renowned educator Dr. Manning offers examples of stories from her own life, followed by an invitation for readers to delve onto their own emotional histories, with plenty of room to explore on the page with writing prompts and tools.

A guidebook for transformation through self-expression, Your Turn will spark readers' creative thought and offers them a space to document their own self-reflection--helping them overcome challenges and move forward.

Karen Keilt, is the author of a memoir, The Parrot’s Perch. Keilt, a native of Brazil,” tells the story of her imprisonment and torture while a captive of the country’s military dictatorship regime. In this emotional and courageous memoir, Keilt outlines her life’s journey to find true happiness after years of clinging to survival.