The familiar becomes strange ... the ordinary reveals a hidden depth ...reality itself is slightly off-kilter. These three authors masterfully use surrealism and dark humor to defamiliarize everyday life, inviting readers into worlds that feel both recognizable and profoundly unsettling.

UA Campus Store Stage (Seats 250)  
Sat, Mar 14, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm
Fiction / Literature
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Lower Level (following presentation)  

Panelists: Lydia Millet, Ed Park, Joshua Wheeler
Moderator: Emily Walsh
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity - Arizona Alpha Chapter, UA Campus Store, Sandra D. Rutherford

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

How can fiction balance absurdity and tenderness to reveal more profound truths about being human? In this panel, our authors will explore how comedy, melancholy, and the surreal intertwine, capturing the strangeness, beauty, and vulnerability of life.

Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142, Wheelchair accessible)  
Sun, Mar 15, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm
Fiction / Literature
Signing area: Sales & Signing Koffler/Commons (following presentation)

Panelists: Jade Chang, Mike Powell, Joshua Wheeler
Moderator: Alisa Alering
Sponsor: Session made possible courtesy of Judith Marro