PRESENTATION: Back to School Young Writers’ Edition

Guest speakers are Jeeah Kim and Sariah Waller. Birmingham Police Chaplain, Marvin
A. Neal, will make a visit to collect much needed school supplies for the Birmingham
City Schools.

The authors:

Jeeah Kim is a Korean-American poet from Prattville, Alabama. She is a lifelong learner with a passion for equity in education, literacy and public speaking. The author of Asynchoritos (2022) and everything I couldn’t tell you (2023), she writes about everything from the fantastical, the day-to-day, and the experiences of Asian-American diasporas.

Sariah Waller is a published writer, a senior at Oak Mountain High School who just completed the Ava Long Creative Writing Workshop at UAB. She published her very first book, “The Healing Heart” on Amazon in April of 2022 while in eighth grade. It’s a love story about two different people from two different backgrounds whose hearts become one. She is currently working on a new book called “The Red Dagger.”

Heads up for September 2025 – Special speaker Naima Simone