Author Talk: Jeanne Carstensen and Michael Krasny

A special fundraising event for the Sebastopol Community Cultural Center.

Sunday, April 26, 2025

Doors 5:00pm | Event 5:45pm*

*VIP ticket holder pre-event experience from 4pm-5:30pm

TICKETS: $20 “Early Bird” GA (purchase by March 23!)

$25 GA advance

$30 GA door

$150 VIP Includes pre-Talk event 4pm-5:30pm in the Youth Annex!

“A Greek Tragedy” is described as: Five Days at Memorial meets Into the Raging Sea with this harrowing and moving true story of a devastating shipwreck during the biggest refugee crisis since World War II.

— About Our Guests —

Jeanne Carstensen is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and Salon and broadcast nationally on The World. She covered the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and Turkey and has been awarded grants and fellowships from The Pulitzer Center, Logan Nonfiction Program, and Mesa Refuge, where she was the Peter Barnes Long-Form Journalism fellow. She lives in San Francisco.

Michael Krasny, PhD, is recently retired as Professor Emeritus of English at San Francisco State and served for nearly a quarter of a century as the host of Forum, on KQED public radio, where he was the recipient of many awards and interviewed most of the nation’s leading writers, politicians and thinkers. He is the author of a number of books, including Off Mike, Spiritual Envy and Let There Be Laughter, as well as co-author of Sound Ideas.