February 17th @6pm

Organization: Phoenix Center for the Arts

Lourdes Leiner author of Sequence, Spider’s Silk, Spit It Out and more will be discussing her newest release In Vitro at Phoenix Center for the Arts!

ABOUT THE BOOK
Set in a near-future America shaped by rising authoritarian control and biomedical innovation, In Vitro follows the story of women whose bodies become battlegrounds between technology, politics, and autonomy. The novel explores reproductive rights, the ethics of artificial life, and the struggle to preserve humanity in an increasingly mechanized world. Told through haunting, poetic prose, In Vitro blurs the line between body and machine, asking how far society will go to engineer perfection and what it means to remain human. Rooted in the landscapes and lore of the American Southwest, In Vitro reimagines the futures of women navigating power, technology, and survival. Through speculative storytelling and vivid imagery, the book envisions what it means to reclaim agency in worlds still haunted by history.unities — a bridge of peace through the universal language of music.