Six Bridges Book Festival: Allison Alford / Jennifer Case

Moderated by Jennifer O'Brien

Six Bridges Book Festival presents Allison Alford (Good Daughtering) and Jennifer Case (The Carework Project). Moderated by Jennifer O'Brien.

Allison Alford

Dr. Allison Alford is a communication expert, author, and speaker whose work centers on the often invisible roles women play in their families and communities—especially the overlooked labor performed by adult daughters. With a PhD in communication studies and two decades of university-level teaching, Alford brings both academic depth and heartfelt clarity to conversations about gender, identity, and relational responsibility. 
 
Good Daughtering: The Work You’ve Always Done, the Credit You’ve Never Gotten, and How to Finally Feel Like Enough invites readers to name and reframe the emotional, logistical, and cognitive labor daughters provide—labor that is deeply impactful yet rarely acknowledged.

Jennifer Case

Jennifer Case is the author of Sawbill: A Search for Place, and her essays have appeared in journals such as the Rumpus, Orion, Ecotone, and North American Review. She teaches at the University of Central Arkansas and serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at Terrain.org.  
 
Part memoir and part cultural reflection, The Carework Project: Reckoning with Love, Labor, and the Living World combines intimate storytelling with research, interviews, and visual art to explore what care means in a time of climate crisis. Case shows how caregiving, often invisible, gendered, or undervalued, is central to our survival, and how healing can start with the smallest gestures of attention. The book invites readers to envision a world where care is not a burden but a source of mutual renewal and belonging. 

ASL interpretation will be provided for all Six Bridges sessions held in CALS Ron Robinson Theater. ASL interpretation for sessions at other CALS locations and Six Bridges venues (including CALS Main Library) will be provided by request. To request ASL interpretation, please submit an ASL Interpretation Request form.

CALS will validate parking in the CALS Library Square surface lot and the CALS Parking Deck. The entrance to the surface lot is located on 2nd Street near River Market Ave. The entrance to the parking deck is located on Rock Street and can be accessed from President Clinton Ave. Street parking is also available throughout the River Market District (free after 6pm and on weekends).