Authors Reading with
Linda Chavez & Doritt Carroll
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 7:00 pm
Linda Chavez's ‘The Silver Candlesticks’ is the story of a young woman who learns her family is Jewish just as the Spanish Inquisition grips Sevilla.
Doritt Carroll’s chapbook, The Convert, offers poems that take their starting point from a religious conversion and use that experience to explore how we are shaped by social, familial, and religious expectations.
Linda Chavez served as director of public liaison in the Reagan White House and as staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She served on the Sub-commission on Human Rights of the U.N. Human Rights Commission from 1992-1996. She is the author of multiple books, including the memoir An Unlikely Conservative.
Doritt Carroll is an attorney and poet from Washington, DC. She is the winner of the Stephen Meats poetry prize, the Laura Lee Washburn chapbook prize, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. The Convert is her fourth collection of poems.
Stewart Moss is the author of ‘For Those Whose Lives Have Seen Themselves’, and ‘Arrivals and Departures’. Moss was a former Executive Director of The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
A reception and book signing will follow the reading.
Reading 7 pm
Book signing and reception 8 pm
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