IN-PERSON (free tickets required): “Join a special event featuring a reading by celebrated author Novuyo Rosa Tshuma in conversation with author/physician and 2024 Science + Literature committee chair Ricardo Nuila (*The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine*) on writing fiction through a scientific lens. The event will include a book sale facilitate by Kindred Stories and book signing.

“Novuyo’s latest novel *[Digging Stars](https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/17772/digging-stars)* was a National Book Foundation’s *2*024 Science + Literature selection and tells the story of Rosa, a protagonist preoccupied both with space, and with what it means to be human*.* Her first novel, *House of Stone*, won the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Balcones Fiction Prize, and was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. A former Houstonian, Tshuma earned her PhD at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where she was an Inprint Nina and Michael Zilkha/Fondren Foundation Fellow, recipient of Inprint International Student Fellowships, and was a much beloved Inprint Writers Workshop leader. A recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, Tshuma has taught graduate fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently teaches at Emerson College.”

***Presented by Baylor College of Medicine’s Humanities Expression and Arts Lab, Hermann Park Conservancy’s Garden and Nature Series, Inprint, and the National Book Foundation.***

More information and link to FREE tickets (required): [Science + Literature: Written in the Stars with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (inprinthouston.org)](https://inprinthouston.org/event/special-event-science-literature-reading/)

**PARKING**: Free parking is available near the Sam Houston Monument (Lot A), the large central parking lots in front of the Houston Zoo (Lots G and F), across the street (Lot H), near Miller Outdoor Theatre (Lots E and D) and beside the McGovern Centennial Gardens (Lot C) located on Hermann Drive. Metered parking is available on the streets adjacent the Park. To view a parking lot map, [click here](https://www.hermannpark.org/media/uploads/hermann_park_parking_map.pdf).