BOOK LAUNCH: Shredding Rugs with Lachrisa Grandberry

An afternoon of Poetry, Presence, & Healing Through Words with Lachrisa Grandberry

Join Milwaukee-born, Chicago-based multi-faceted artist Lachrisa Grandberry for a two-hour immersive afternoon of poetry, reflection, and conversation. Through curated readings from her collection Shredding Rugs, Lachrisa explores truth-telling, resilience, generational healing, and the radical act of speaking what once felt unspeakable. The afternoon will include extended live readings, insight into Lachrisa’s creative process across poetry and theater, and guided audience conversation about how words help us process grief, trauma, love, and becoming.

Whether you are a writer, an artist, or simply someone who has ever needed language to make sense of your life, this event offers an invitation to listen, reflect, and engage. Books will be available for signing following the program. Light refreshments will be served. Presented in collaboration with kindgoods of Sister Bay.

About the Author

Lachrisa Grandberry is a Milwaukee-born, Chicago-based playwright, poet, lyricist, and multi-faceted artist. She is a 2026 Goodman Theatre New Stages Residency Playwright, where she is developing her play Black-Eyed Peas and Collard Greens. Her work spans poetry and musical theater, often exploring generational healing, truth-telling, and the resilience of Black and Brown communities. She is the lyricist, co-authbor, and co-composer of Sunflowered and co-author, co-lyricist of Girls on Sand, both developed at Northern Sky Theater. Her generational drama Eeny Meeny Miny NO!, was featured in the inaugural Milwaukee Black Theater Festival.

Lachrisa is the author of the poetry collection Shredding Rugs, a body of work rooted in personal reckoning, presence, and the healing power of language. A 2024 Dramatist Guild Foundation National Musical Theater Playwriting Fellow, she also serves as Program Director of NOVA (Nurturing Original Voices & Artists) at Northern Sky Theater, where she mentors and develops emerging writers. Through page and performance, Lachrisa creates work that invites audiences into urgency, recognition, and tenderness. Learn more at lachrisagrandberry.com.