2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award Winners Announced

The University of Iowa Press is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Awards. Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell is the winner of the 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her collection The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti. Barbara Hamby's Lester Higata's 20th Century is the winner of the 2010 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. The recipients were selected by Paul Harding, author of Tinkers.

Painter, poet, and short story writer Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell was born and grew up in Haiti. She has held fellowships at the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University and has received a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts. In 1993, she won the Grolier prize for poetry. Her collection Crossroads and Unholy Water won the 1999 Crab Orchard Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Walt Whitman prize from the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry has appeared in such anthologies as Sisters of Caliban: Contemporary Women Poets of the Caribbean, The Beacon Best of 1999: Creative Writing by Women and Men of All Colors, and New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology and in such magazines as Callaloo, Ploughshares, and River Styx, and her short fiction has been published in Callaloo, the Crab Orchard Review, and the New Arcadia Review as well as The Best American Short Stories 2003.

Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell’s stories transport you to a lush, singular, lyrical, flamboyant, and spirit-filled Haiti where palm trees shine wet with moonlight and the sky paints a yellow screen over your head and the ocean sparkles with thousands of golden eyes—and keep you there forever. Her characters may dream of escape, whether from themselves, from family, from Vodou, from financial and cultural difficulties and the politicians that create or maintain them, or from the country itself, but Haiti will forever remain part of their souls and part of the thoughts of her readers.

Hawai’i native Barbara Hamby is writer-in-residence in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee. She is the author of four books of poetry, most recently All-Night Lingo Tango. Her first book, Delirium, won the 1994 Vassar Miller Prize and two prizes for the best first book of poems published in 1995, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her second, The Alphabet of Desire, won the 1998 New York University Prize for Poetry; the New York Public Library chose it as one of the twenty-five best books of 1999. Her third, Babel, won the 2003 Associated Writing Program’s Donald Hall Prize. She is also co-editor with her husband, David Kirby, of the poetry anthology Seriously Funny. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Mississippi Review, Southwest Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2001.

“Lester Higata knew his life was about to end when he walked out on the patio behind his house in Makiki and saw his long-dead father sitting in a lawn chair near the little greenhouse where Lester kept his orchids.” Thus begins Barbara Hamby’s magical narrative of the life of a Japanese American man in Honolulu. Starting in 1999 with his conversation with his father, continuing throughout his life with Katherine and their children in Hawai’i, and ending with his days in the hospital in 1949, as he heals from a wartime wound and meets the woman he will marry, Hamby moves backward in time to recreate not one world but any number of worlds that have shaped Lester. The world of his mother, as stubbornly faithful to Japan and Buddhism as Katherine’s mother is to Ohio and conservative Christianity; the world of his children, whose childhoods and adulthoods are vastly different from his; the world after Pearl Harbor and Vietnam; the world of a professional engineer and family man: the worlds of Lester Higata’s 20th Century are ordinary worlds filled with ordinary people living extraordinary lives, moving from farms to classrooms and offices, from racism to acceptance and even love, all in a setting so paradisal it could be heaven on earth.

The short fiction awards are given to a first collection of fiction in English and are administered through the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The honors are national in scope and have been given since 1969. The John Simmons Short Fiction Award (named for the first director of the University of Iowa Press) was created in 1988 to complement the existing Iowa Short Fiction Award.

University of Iowa Press Announces New Series: Iowa and the Midwest Experience

The University of Iowa Press is pleased to announce a new book series, Iowa and the Midwest Experience, edited by William B. Friedricks, professor of history at Simpson College. The series will publish innovative books on the social, cultural, economic, political, and geographical issues that have shaped the history of Iowa and other midwestern states. In addition to presenting current research and suggesting future directions for scholars, the series aims to make midwestern history more accessible to the general public.

William B. Friedricks, director of the Iowa History Center, was recently named the inaugural winner of the Iowa History Prize, awarded by Humanities Iowa to help support and promote awareness of and interest in Iowa history. He is the author of several books including Investing in Iowa: The Life and Times of F. M. Hubbell and In for the Long Haul: The Life of John Ruan. He has appointed an advisory board consisting of Marvin Bergman of the State Historical Society of Iowa; Rebecca Conard, Middle Tennessee State University; Thomas Morain, Graceland University; Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Iowa State University; Dorothy Schwieder, Iowa State University; and Timothy Walch, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

“I’m eager to bring the history of Iowa and its neighboring states to the forefront. Midwestern history has long been neglected, and there are so many interesting stories to be told here. Obviously a publication program goes a long way toward creating public enthusiasm as well as giving educators and scholars a great set of resources. As the only university press in the state, the University of Iowa Press is a natural partner in such a venture. The press represents all the best qualities of a publisher, including impeccable editorial, design, and production standards,” said Friedricks.

“We are thrilled to be publishing in the area of midwestern history in a more formal and determined way,” said Holly Carver, director of the University of Iowa Press, “and to be working with a scholar as esteemed as William Friedricks. Bill has been a relentless and creative promoter of Iowa history. He has chosen an advisory board of highly respected scholars and has already poured energy into pursuing significant projects. The fact that he is an author helps enormously in identifying promising manuscripts and guiding them through the publication process.”

Please send inquiries and proposals to William Friedricks or consult the submission guidelines for authors.

2009 Iowa Poetry Prize Winners Announced
Winning Collections to Be Published in Spring 2010

Samuel Amadon of Houston, Texas, and Molly Brodak of Augusta, Georgia, have been named 2009 recipients of the prestigious Iowa Poetry Prize. Amadon's collection Like a Sea and Brodak’s collection A Little Middle of the Night will both be published in March 2010 by the University of Iowa Press.

Drawing equally from Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, John Berryman, and Robert Frost, Samuel Amadon’s Like a Sea is a collection of poems where personality is foregrounded and speech is both bizarre and familiar. Central to this work is “Each H,” a sequence of monologues and dialogues where an unknown number of speakers examine their collective and singular identities at the same time that they distort them. Many styles are represented in Like a Sea, from a sequence of pared-down sonnets to a more traditional lyric to a procedural collage that takes from J. D. Salinger, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Walter Benjamin, Jane Kenyon, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Primo Levi, Eugenio Montale, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. Like a Sea is a book of significant variation and originality.

Amadon's eclectic collection begins with the line “I could not sound like anyone but me,” and through the wide range of forms and styles and voices the poet employs, he tests the true limits of that statement. Hartford, Connecticut, the image of a half-abandoned city, remains a landscape in the background of these poems, casting a tone of brokenness and haplessness. Ultimately the poems in Like a Sea present the confusion and fear of the current moment equally alongside its joyful ridiculousness and possibility. Rather than create worlds, they point out what a strange world already exists.

Samuel Amadon was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. A recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, he received his BA in English from Boston University and his MFA in poetry from Columbia University. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Boston Review, VOLT, and elsewhere. With Stephanie Anderson, he edits Projective Industries, a chapbook series. The author of the chapbooks Advice for Young Couples, Goodnight Lung, and Each H, he is currently a graduate teaching fellow in the Department of English at the University of Houston, where he is working on his PhD in creative writing and literature.

The language of Molly Brodak’s first full-length collection, A Little Middle of the Night, is ever shifting, brightly sonic, and disarming while exploring the margin between nature and art, darkness and beauty, dreams and awakenings. As echoed in one epigraph from Emerson, these poems capture “the Exact and the Vast” of consciousness in intense lyric verse with an angular and almost scientific sensitivity. Here is a speaker intent on discovery: “Oh whole world, we choose / another.”

This award-winning collection simmers with wit as Brodak confronts tragedy, childhood losses, transcendent love, and the question of art itself. Tinged with a suffering—“I was the littlest wastebasket. / I was my own church. Except— / scared. scared”—that rises above personal sorrow, her fierce and painterly poems redefine nature and art and what exists between: “Lately, there is spangled shade in my space / and a cold apple orchard to tend in place of consciousness.” As Reginald Shepherd said about the poems in her first collection, the chapbook Instructions for a Painting, Brodak’s world is “‘small enough / to sing in all directions,’ and large enough to take us there.”

Michigan-born Molly Brodak is currently a lecturer in English and humanities at Augusta State University. Her work has appeared in the Colorado Review, FIELD, Ninth Letter, the Journal, the Northwest Review, the Laurel Review, the New Orleans Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Instructions for a Painting was chosen by Reginald Shepherd for the 2007 GreenTower Press Midwest Chapbook Series. She attended the Savannah College of Art and Design and received her BA in English from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and her MFA in creative writing from West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Awarded annually by the University of Iowa Press, the Iowa Poetry Prize is one of the leading national poetry awards. The acclaimed competition is open to new as well as established poets. Recent winners of the prize include Full Catastrophe Living by Zach Savich, something has to happen next by Andrew Michael Roberts, Sunday Houses the Sunday House by Elizabeth Hughey, and American Spikenard by Sarah Vap.

E-Books Now Available from the University of Iowa Press

The University of Iowa Press is proud to announce that as of May 15, 2009, it is offering a select group of its titles as e-books, available directly from the publisher's website. In conjunction with its distribution partner, the Chicago Distribution Center, and BiblioVault, a digital content repository hosted by the University of Chicago Press, the press is acting as a beta client for CDC in its initial forays into direct to consumer e-book fulfillment.

The fulfillment service uses Adobe's Digital Editions software, which is available free of charge for personal computers, Macs, and a varied and growing list of mobile platforms. Digital Editions offers an excellent user interface, similar in look and feel to Adobe Reader, as well as bookmarking and text-searching capabilities. The fulfillment system allows the University of Iowa Press not only to sell e-books directly through its website, but to distribute complimentary review copies, desk copies, and examination copies to media and scholarly partners. This aspect of the service reduces the number of printed copies that are distributed for free, reducing the press's carbon footprint and allowing it to raise awareness as a committed member of the Green Press Initiative.

University of Chicago Press director Garrett Kiely says, "Being able to present e-books via Digital Editions is a wonderful opportunity for the Chicago Distribution Center's client presses to move directly into the growing digital market with a minimum of stress. We are pleased that a publisher as respected as the University of Iowa Press has agreed to act as a beta press for this project."

Holly Carver, director of the University of Iowa Press, adds, "Not only are we taking advantage of a brand-new avenue for our titles, but we are saving paper and postage by offering e-books in place of traditional paper review and examination copies. We hope to continually add a vibrant mix of older and newer titles to this program and look forward to working with all our partners to increase the availability and visibility of our books. There are a myriad of e-distribution options beginning to appear and we are pleased that our relationship with the Chicago Distribution Center, the premier fulfillment operation in academic publishing, has allowed us to explore this opportunity."

For more information on the University of Iowa Press e-book initiative, please contact Jim McCoy, Marketing Manager, 319-335-2008, james-mccoy@uiowa.edu, or visit us online at www.uiowapress.org.

The Making of Theatrical Reputations Is a Finalist for the 2009 George Freedley Memorial Award

The University of Iowa Press is proud to announce that The
Making of Theatrical Reputations by Yael Zarhy-Levo has been
chosen as a finalist for the 2009 George Freedley Memorial Award.

Today's successful plays and playwrights achieve their prominence not simply because of their intrinsic merit but because of the work of mediators, who influence the whole trajectory of a playwright's or a theatre company's career. Critics and academic writers are primarily considered the makers of reputations, but funding organizations and various media agents as well as artistic directors, producers, and directors also pursue separate agendas in shaping the reputations of theatrical works. In The Making of Theatrical Reputations, Zarhy-Levo demonstrates the processes through which these mediatory practices by key authority figures situate theatrical companies and playwrights within cultural and historical memory.

To reveal how these authorizing powers-that-be promote theatrical events, companies, and playwrights, Zarhy-Levo presents four detailed case studies that reflect various angles of the modern London theatre. In the case of the English Stage Company's production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, she centers on a specific event. She then focuses on the trajectory of a single company, the Theatre Workshop, particularly through its first decade at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London. Next, she explores the career of the dramatist John Arden, especially its first ten years, in part drawing upon an interview with Arden and his wife, actress and playwright Margaretta D'Arcy, before turning to her fourth study: the playwright Harold Pinter's shifting reputation throughout the different phases of his career.

Zarhy-Levo's accounts of these theatrical events, companies, and playwrights through the prism of mediation bring fresh insights to these landmark productions and their creators.

Established in 1968 to honor the late George Freedley—theatre historian, critic, author, and first curator of the New York Public Library Theatre Collection—the George Freedley Memorial Award honors the best English-language work about live theatre published in the United States. This award is sponsored by the Theatre Library Association, an organization that supports librarians and archivists affiliated with theatre, dance, performance studies, popular entertainment, motion picture and broadcasting collections and promotes professional practices in acquisition, organization, access, and preservation of performing arts resources in libraries, archives, museums, private collections, and the digital environment.

Yael Zarhy-Levo is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in the Department of Literature at Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of The Theatrical Critic as Cultural Agent: Constructing Pinter, Orton and Stoppard as Absurdist Playwrights.

University of Iowa Press Announces Two Winners for the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award

Now in its 40th year, the New Writers Award seeks to recognize promising young writers and provide undergraduate students an opportunity to meet with writers in early stages of their careers. Judges are professors of literature and writers in residence at the Great Lakes Colleges. The winners of the 2009 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for both fiction and creative nonfiction were published by the University of Iowa Press.

The creative nonfiction winner is Family Bible by Melissa Delbridge. The following excerpt is from the judges’ comments: “Some of the best memoirs do more than describe an individual life; they capture a time and place along with the particular psychological and cultural texture of a self. Family Bible shows that the real work of honesty lies in discovering a language capable of shaping the truth into reality on the page. There is dry wit and southern sass, yet Delbridge offers substance as well as style, asking hard questions about the ways in which we internalize trauma. Delbridge resists the self-pity we might otherwise expect from a childhood like hers. In a sense, the narrative perspective can be understood in the context of the ironic title. What the reader gets is not an un-self-examined application of simple scriptural lessons but a hard-edged reminder never to cast the first stone.”

The winner in the fiction category is Desert Gothic by Don Waters. The following excerpt is from the judges’ comments: “These are the stories of unrepentant outsiders . . . told on behalf of those who cannot tell. The textures are rich, the lexicon hard and fast and eidetic. The dramas are found in the seams of life and they are real and fleet. The consequences are unanticipated and just right. Many of these characters want to believe in something, but they can’t stop being imperfect. Although you wouldn’t expect figures such as Mormons on motorcycles, egotistical long distance runners, and writers obsessed with Mark Twain in one volume, Waters weaves these lives together through their connection with the Southwestern landscape, and ultimately through their fear of death. The language is economical and precise, gritty and engaging.”

Melissa Delbridge has published essays and short stories in the Antioch Review, Southern Humanities Review, Third Coast, and other journals. She is an archivist in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. Delbridge lives with her family in Orange County, North Carolina, where she spends her leisure time letting the dogs in and out, making pickles, plotting vengeance, substantiating rumors, and working on a novel.

Don Waters was born and raised in Reno, Nevada, and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He’s received numerous honors for his writing, including fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Jentel Foundation, as well as the McGinnis-Ritchie Award from the Southwest Review. His stories have been published in such venues as Epoch, StoryQuarterly, the Kenyon Review, the Southwest Review, the Santa Monica Review, ZYZZYVA, the Cimarron Review, and Grain.

Author Events

Linda Scarth & Robert Scarth, Deep Nature: Photographs from Iowa

Grinnell, Iowa

Tuesday, March 2

4:15 PM

Presentation sponsored by the Center for Prairie Studies at Grinnell College, Alumni Recital Hall102

1226 Park Street

641/269-4720

S.L. Wisenberg, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch

Lake Forest, Illinois
Thursday, March 4
4:00 PM
Reading with Angela Jackson, Lake Forest College literary festival at Lake Forest College in the Meyer Auditorium

847/735-5167

Cornelia F. Mutel, A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Des Moines, Iowa

Tuesday, March 9

6:30 PM

Panel discussion at the Iowa State Historical Society Building, “ A Watershed Year: Lesson Learned, Preparing for the Future,” including Mutel and several chapter authors

600 East Locust Street

515/281-6412

Cornelia F. Mutel, A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Des Moines, Iowa

Wednesday, March 10

7:00 AM

Legislative breakfast reception including Mutel and several chapter authors at the Iowa State Capitol, Room 116

1007 Grand Avenue

515/281-5591

Cornelia F. Mutel, A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Iowa City, Iowa

Thursday, March 11

8:45 AM

Interview on the Dottie Ray Show on KXIC

S.L. Wisenberg, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch

Chicago, Illinois

Sunday, March 21

10:30 AM

Coffee with the Cancer Bitch: reading and discussion at the Kam Isaiah Israel Congregation

1100 East Hyde Park Boulevard

773/924-1234

Cornelia F. Mutel, A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Iowa City, Iowa

Sunday, March 28

9:30 AM

Author talk at the Zion Lutheran Church adult education hour

310 North Johnson Street

319/338-0944

S.L. Wisenberg, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch

Chicago, Illinois

Friday, April 2

3:00 PM

Reading with Roxanne Pilat at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 2027 University Hall in the English Department Seminar Room (UH2028), part of the Writers One-on-One reading series

601 South Morgan Street

312/413-2200

Cornelia F. Mutel, A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Iowa City, Iowa

Saturday, April 3

2:00 PM

Panel discussion with Mutel and chapter authors Witold Krajewski, John Castle, and Wayne Petersen at the Iowa City Public Library. Sponsored by the Iowa City Public Library and Prairie Lights Bookstore

123 South Linn Street

319/356-5200

Linda Scarth & Robert Scarth, Deep Nature: Photographs from Iowa

Davenport, Iowa

Saturday, April 3

2:00 PM

Presentation and booksigning at Borders

4000 East 53rd Street

563/359-7830

S.L. Wisenberg, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch

Denver, Colorado

Thursday, April 8

10:30 AM

AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair Panel, Sick Humor: What's NOT Funny about Serious Disease? with Paula Kamen, William Bradley, Regina Barreca, and Marya Hornbacher at the Colorado Convention Center in room 107

700 14th Street

703/993-4301

S.L. Wisenberg, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch

Denver, Colorado

Thursday, April 8

12:00 PM

AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair Panel, The Person Within Myself: Constructing the Narrative Persona in Creative Nonfiction, with Elizabeth Kadetsky, Hattie Fletcher, Valerie Miner, Jane Bernstein, and Lise Funderburg at the Colorado Convention Center in rooms 403, 404

700 14th Street

703/993-4301

Cornelia F. Mutel, A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Ottumwa, Iowa

Thursday, April 8

7:00 PM

Author lecture, “Natural Flows: Water, Flooding, and Nature in Iowa.” Buena Vista University, Estelle Siebens Science Center, Room 126

610 West Fourth Street

641/682-4572

Rachel Zucker & Arielle Greenberg, Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days

Denver, Colorado

Friday, April 9

10:00 AM

Book signing at the AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair at the University of Iowa Press booth in Exhibit Hall A, tables E2 and E3

700 14th Street

703/993-4301

Kathryn Ma, All That Work and Still No Boys

Denver, Colorado

Friday, April 9

11:00 AM

Book signing at the AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair at the University of Iowa Press booth in Exhibit Hall A, tables E2 and E3

700 14th Street

703/993-4301

Cornelia F. Mutel, A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Ames, Iowa

Friday, April 9

7:00 PM

Ten Year Water Monitoring Conference will include author lecture, “Natural Flows: Water, Flooding, and Nature in Iowa" at the Iowa State University in the Scheman Center.

515/294-3347 

Jennine Capó Crucet, How to Leave Hialeah

Denver, Colorado

Saturday, April 10

11:00 AM

Book signing at the AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair at the University of Iowa Press booth in Exhibit Hall A, tables E2 and E3

700 14th Street

703/993-4301

Cornelia F. Mutel, A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Saturday, April 10

2:00 PM

Panel discussion with Mutel, chapter authors Linda Langston and Witold Krajewski, and State Senator Rob Hogg at the Cedar Rapids Public Library in Westdale Mall

2600 Edgewood Road SW

319/398-5123

William E. Whittaker, Frontier Forts of Iowa: Indians, Traders, and Soldiers, 1682-1862

Davenport, Iowa

Saturday, April 10

2:00 PM

Presentation and booksigning at Borders

4000 East 53rd Street

563/359-7830

S.L. Wisenberg, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch

Denver, Colorado

Saturday, April 10

3:00 PM

Book signing with guest Michael Martone at the AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair at the University of Iowa Press booth in Exhibit Hall A, tables E2 and E3

700 14th Street

703/993-4301

S.L. Wisenberg, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch

Chicago, Illinois

Wednesday, April 14

5:00 PM

Reading at Roosevelt University in Gage Gallery, part of the MFA Reading Series

18 South Michigan Avenue

312/341-3500

Kathryn Ma, All That Work and Still No Boys

San Francisco, California

Friday, April 16

6:30 PM

San Francisco Public Library Literary Laureates Dinner

100 Larkin Street

415/557-4400

Cornelia F. Mutel, A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Iowa City, Iowa

Wednesday, April 21

4:00 PM

Reception at the John Deere Plaza at the University of Iowa

3100 Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences

319/335-5764

Kathryn Ma, All That Work and Still No Boys

San Francisco, California

Thursday, April 22

7:30 PM

Authors' Panel: Emergin Asian American Women Writers at the University of San Francisco

Fromm Hall, Xavier Room

415/422-5555

Cornelia F. Mutel, A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Saturday, April 24

1:00 PM

Author lecture at Corridor Earth Day Celebration in Teamster’s Hall

5000 J Street SW

319/395-6700

Kathryn Ma, All That Work and Still No Boys

Stanford, California

Saturday, April 24

1:00 PM

Book fair at the Stanford Humanities Center

424 Santa Teresa Street

650/723-3052

Linda Scarth & Robert Scarth, Deep Nature: Photographs from Iowa

Oskaloosa, Iowa

Tuesday, May 4

Presentation at the Book Vault

105 South Market Street

641/676-1777

Kathryn Ma, All That Work and Still No Boys

Ashland, Oregon

Saturday, June 12

TBA

Book signing at the Tudor Guild Gift Shop at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

15 South Pioneer Street

541/482-0940

Carl H. Klaus, Letters to Kate: Life after Life

Iowa City, Iowa

Wednesday, November 3

TBA

Reading at Prairie Lights Bookstore

15 South Dubuque Street

319/337-2681

For more information or to schedule an event with one of our authors, please contact our associate marketing manager, Allison Thomas Means.