Join us for an evening with local writer Amy Pence to celebrate her debut novel Yellow, a multi-threaded novel that weaves fact, physics, space exploration, and philosophy to create a transcendent reading experience. She'll be in conversation with local novelist Robert Gwaltney. Registration is free but recommended.

This event will be held in the Fourth Floor Gallery and Event Space of Decatur Library. Please enter through the main level, rear doors (top of the parking deck). The elevator on the right goes to the Fourth Floor and will be unlocked at 6:30.

About Amy Pence: Amy Pence is the author of four poetry collections and two chapbooks, including We Travel Towards It, attentive to climate change’s losses—both collective and personal—and the prose/poetry hybrid [It] Incandescent. Raised in New Orleans and Las Vegas, Amy taught college English, poetry writing at Emory, and in other workshop settings. She makes her home in Atlanta, where she continues to write across genres. Yellow is her debut novel, published by Red Hen Press this spring.

About Yellow: It’s 1973: summer of the Watergate hearings and Skylab’s launch into space when 12-year-old Z discovers an unclassified slime mold growing in her Louisiana backyard. Something compels her deep coherence with this magical creature—until an incident with a serial killer at the lake disrupts their connection. Both mystifying and metaphorical, Yellow becomes a guiding force for her brother Clem, a New Orleans seeker. As years pass, Z tries to recover what life has taught her to forget. A multi-threaded novel, Yellow weaves fact, physics, space exploration, and philosophy to create a transcendent reading experience.

About Robert Gwaltney: Robert Gwaltney, a recipient of the 2022 Pat Conroy Writers Residency, was named 2023 Georgia Author of the Year for his debut novel, The Cicada Tree. He resides in Atlanta, Georgia, where he is an active member of the Atlanta literary community serving as a board member for Broadleaf Writers Association. Robert’s work has appeared in such publications as Southbound Magazine, Southern Literary Review, The Blue Mountain Review, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. His new novel, Sing Down The Moon, which has been awarded the Somerset Award for Literary and Contemporary Fiction, will be published by Mercer University Press in the Spring of 2026.