Alison Garwood Jones

To my Hamilton and Burlington peeps (hey, @hillstrath grads!), mark your calendars:

SATURDAY, JULY 12
2:00-3:30 PM
BURLINGTON CENTRAL LIBRARY – 2331 New St, Burlington, ON L7R 1J4

Come and say hi and please join me for the homecoming edition of my author talk, “INKING YOUR GRIEF.”

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Discover how author and illustrator Alison Garwood-Jones found drawing to be a powerful way to process loss and promote healing. Alison reflects on the grief of orphaned adults through a series of portraits—some grim, some funny, but all relatable—from her new book, I MISS MY MOMMY. Find out how creating art can help keep a loved one close or foster peace and understanding when there’s no love lost.

This is a unique opportunity to connect and reflect on the power of images and of art making to help us sit with emotions we’d rather avoid but can’t stop feeling.

An audience Q&A will follow the talk, and her book will be available for sale and signing.

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My thanks to Emma Burkholder and Parampreet Khanuja for their enthusiastic support. Librarians have wings.

I MISS MY MOMMY is available in paperback at PenJarProductions.com and most libraries across the Golden Horseshoe and the GTA. The Ebook version is available through Indigo.

My printing partner is the one and only Lulu Press