Drawing upon the heroes of her New York Times bestselling book, Factory Man and Truevine, journalist Beth Macy tells the stories of gritty underdogs from rural America who battle greed and exploitation to win justice for their communities. Macy will talk about her writing process and how her nonfiction narratives draw upon decades of analysis, journalistic investigation and on-the-ground reporting to help readers understand complicated social issues such as globalization, racial injustice and the opioid epidemic - the subject of her next book.

About the Author:

Beth Macy is an author, a journalist, a frequent lecturer/speaker and a former reporter. Her work has appeared in national magazines and The Roanoke Times, where her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Neiman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard.