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Genevieve Graham in conversation with Katie Bickell

Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025
2:00pm to 4:00pm

St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)
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Closing STARFest is Genevieve Graham, bestselling author of The Forgotten Home Child, with her latest novel On Isabella Street, set amid the social upheaval of 1960s Toronto.

Genevieve Graham is the USA TODAY and #1 bestselling author of twelve novels, including The Secret Keeper, The Forgotten Home Child, Letters Across the Sea, and Bluebird. She is passionate about breathing life back into history through tales of love and adventure. She lives in Alberta. Visit her at GenevieveGraham.com or on X and Instagram @GenGrahamAuthor.

Katie Bickell is author of the award-winning novel Always Brave, Sometimes Kind, which received the Georges Bugnet Award for Best Fiction, the Indie Book Award for Alberta, and was shortlisted for the national ReLit Award. She is also the recipient of the Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story, the Alberta Literary Award's Emerging Writer Award, and the Alberta Views Fiction Contest, among others. Formerly Edmonton Metro Federation of Libraries' Regional Writer in Residence for 2024, Katie is founder of The Memoir House by K.H. Bickell Literary, a boutique collective of authors specializing in ghostwriting services.


St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)

5 Saint Anne Street
St. Albert, AB, T8N 3Z9


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