Castle Hill Author Talks
Join us for a series of provocative and entertaining discussions with some of today’s most talented and creative authors. In a series of live, one-hour events, host Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party, will interview acclaimed, debut, and award-winning authors of fiction and non-fiction about their new books and their paths to publication. Available individually or as a series, the interviews will include time for questions from the audience. Events are FREE although donations greatly appreciated!
This is and online event is hosted on Zoom, you must sign up to receive the link!
Tuesday, December 17, 6pm
Join Karen Dukess in conversation with Jackie Morris
on ZOOM
Jackie Morris is a writer and illustrator who lives and works from a small cottage beside the sea's edge in Wales, UK. She won the Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing her outstanding work on The Lost Words, co-created with Robert Macfarlane. She began work in publishing with illustrations for magazines and newspapers and card design for Greenpeace, Amnesty and Oxfam, and in 1992 began work on her first book for children the week after her first child, Tom, was born. Some 60 or more books later her work has been translated into many languages. Her work includes The Lost Spells, The Unwinding, The Snow Leopard, The White Fox, and Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone. Wild Folk, written by Morris and illustrated by Tamsin Abbott, will be published in 2025 and The Lost Birds, a third volume with Macfarlane, will be published in 2026. She is guarded in her home by a pride of cats and a small dog.
About the host
Karen Dukess, who has hosted the Castle Hill Author Talks since 2021, is the author of the IndieNext and Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick THE LAST BOOK PARTY and the upcoming (June 2025) WELCOME TO MURDER WEEK. She has been a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia, and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations. She has a degree in Russian Studies from Brown University and a Master's in Journalism from Columbia University. She lives with her family near New York City and spends as much time as possible in Truro on Cape Cod.
