Spokane native K.A. Gilmore returns home to celebrate the upcoming release of Nobody Told Me I Am Black: Book One – Setting the Stage, the first book in a three-book series exploring race, identity, and the conversations many people have never known how to begin.

Join the author for an evening of appetizers, drinks, music, and conversation while celebrating the launch with readers, friends, classmates, former colleagues, and community members.

Whether you've known Karen for years or are discovering her work for the first time, this is an opportunity to reconnect, meet the author, and learn more about a book written to encourage honest conversations about race without pressure.

K.A. Gilmore is the pen name of Karen Loomis.

Karen grew up in Spokane and spent 29 years of her life in the Inland Empire. Many of the stories in Book One – Setting the Stage take place in Spokane, making this homecoming especially meaningful as the book begins its public journey.