FREEMAN NG: Introduces “Bridge Across the Sky,” his historical novel in verse about a Chinese teen who immigrates to the United States with his family and endures mistreatment at the Angel Island Immigration Station (in San Francisco Bay) while trying to navigate his own course in the new world. The author is a former Google software engineer who writes full time. Although he lived most of his life a 20-minute ferry ride from Angel Island, he never thought about the station and its history until he heard abut the poems written on its walls. (Read more at AuthorFreeman.com). He will also sign copies of “The Haunted States of America,” a middle-grade anthology of ghost stories. In conversation with Minnesota writer Sun Yung Shin. 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, Red Balloon Bookshop, 891 Grand Ave., St. Paul. Free; registration required: redballoonbookshop.com/event.

DEBBIE RUSSELL: Signs copies of “Crossing Fifty-One.” 10-11a.m. Friday, Aug. 30, Lake Country Booksellers, 4766 Washington Square, White Bear Lake.

TOPAZ WINTERS: Celebrates the five-year anniversary and special-edition relaunch of her collection “Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing.” The author is a Singaporean-American poet and editor-in-chief of Half Mystic Press. Her work has been published in literary magazines and performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre for Fiction, and the Singapore Writers Festival. She lives in Singapore and New York. 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, SubText Bookstore, 6 W. Fifth St., St. Paul.

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