Tracy Floreani
HPPR Radio Readers Book Club ContributorTracy Floreani is Professor Emerita of English and former Director of the Jeanne Hoffman Smith Center for Film and Literature at Oklahoma City University. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Kansas, with specializations in American literature, studies in race and ethnicity, and history and theory of the novel. She is also Past-President of the Society for the Study of Multiethnic Literature of the U.S. Tracy has published two scholarly books on ethnic literature and is currently completing on a biography of Fanny McConnell Ellison, the wife of novelist Ralph Ellison. When not reading, writing, or involved in community-based projects, she enjoys gardening, textile arts, and playing American folk music.
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Hello, Tracy Floriani here coming to you from central Oklahoma with a summer readingrecommendation. This summer I've been reading Sunlight Finds You, the new novel by Kansas author Laura Moriarty. The book comes out August 4th, so be looking for it in the weeks ahead.
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This is Tracy Floreani, coming to you from central Oklahoma, just blocks away from historic Route 66, with commentary on the next book in the High Plains Public Radio Readers Club: Shing Yin Khor’s graphic memoir The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66. -
This is Tracy Floreani in central Oklahoma with a commentary on the last book in the fall 2025 High Plains Public Radio Readers Club. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, by Margaret Renkl, is a bit hard to categorize, but it’s mostly a memoir told through a series of very short essays.
