Tucson Festival of Books | Evanthia Bromiley

Evanthia Bromiley

Evanthia Bromiley is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and the recipient of scholarships from the Aspen Institute, a Lighthouse Fellowship, a Lisel Mueller scholarship, and Elizabeth George and Carol Houck-Smith awards. She is the 2025 Grace Paley Fellow for Under the Volcano international residency in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Her short fiction and creative nonfiction can be found in AGNI, Prairie Schooner, and Five Points. Her debut novel "Crown" was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Scheduled events:

Southwest Families, Past and Present

Four novelists---all inspired by the desert---discuss how they use the region to tell powerful stories rooted in history and informed by current events

UA Library/Special Collections (Seats 110)

Sat, Mar 14, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm
Southwest Books of the Year
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)

Panelists: Evanthia Bromiley, Nathan Harris, Anne Hillerman, A. Muia
Moderator: Mark Athitakis
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of University of Arizona Libraries, University of Arizona Press, Diane Huggins

Desert Dreams: Escapes and Reinvention

What draws us to (or away from) the desert? Is it the promise of escape, its silence, its capacity for transformation? In this session, our three authors will explore the desert as both landscape and metaphor, a place where grief, reinvention, and self-discovery take root in the heat and emptiness.

Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110)

Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm
Fiction / Literature
Signing area: UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)

Panelists: Evanthia Bromiley, Michelle Tea, Joshua Wheeler
Moderator: Liz Warren-Pederson
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Joi and Bianca Bowen, Roberta and Bill Witchger

Book:

Crown

Southwest Books of the Year
Grove Press
January 2025
ISBN 9780802164629
288 pages
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