Wed, Oct 14
|Virtual Author Talk
Guest Author Talk: It's Not the Weight You Carry, Writing Out Loud and Owning Your Raw with Antonia "Tuni" Deignan
Join Sherry + memoirist Antonia "Tuni" Deignan, author of Underwater Daughter in this heartfelt conversation on staying true to your remembered experience with courage and conviction, layering prose, poetry, and dreamscapes into memoir, and the healing power of writing raw, "out loud."
Time & Location
Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Virtual Author Talk
About the event
"It's not the weight you carry but how you carry it—
books, bricks, grief—
it's all in the way
you embrace it, balance it, carry it."
~Mary Oliver
Tuni spent most of her life using a whole host of coping mechanisms to avoid facing the trauma of her childhood: a sexually abusive father and a mother who seemed helpless to stop him. But when a bike accident rendered her immobile and dependent on narcotics at age fifty-five, she finally sat down to unwind and understand the circus of her life— a journey that led her to a place of understanding, peace, and even joy.