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WHAT: The Women Behind the Book, presented by The African American Museum and Library
WHEN: Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
WHERE: The African American Museum and Library
659 14th Street, Oakland, CA
WHO: Brandelyn Castine will be featured as guest author at The Women Behind the
Book event where she will be speaking and signing copies of her latest book, U.G.L.Y.
WHY: This event is in honor of “Women’s History Month”
Event Details: The Women Behind the Book is a free event.
Copies of U.G.L.Y will be available for $20.00
About Brandelyn N.Castine
Brandelyn N. Castine is the author of Everybody Plays the Fool, a novel; Spoken Silence: Life in Four
Parts, a volume of poetry; and U.G.L.Y., a novel and currently lives in the Bay Area. As a full time
writer with a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley, Brandelyn is also a contributing author in the Gumbo
for the Soul Anthology, a project that was created to raise funds to support literacy programs in the Bay
Area. In addition, Brandelyn is currently working as a freelance writer for Leather, Empress and Vapors
Magazines.
