Tara Kramer

Tara Kramer won the nonfiction division of the festival's Literary Awards Writing Competition. Earlier in her career, she spent 15 years working in Greenland, Antarctica, and Canada for the U.S. Polar Programs, which does research in the Arctic and Antarctica. Today she teaches writing at Montana State University and helps educate U.S. Forest Service avalanche forecasters. Her prose and poetry have been featured with Alpinist, Patagonia, The Maine Review, Whitefish Review, and Waymaking. 

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Tomorrow’s Bestsellers Today

The festival's annual writing contest attracted more than 700 entries this year, and today we will meet the three winners: Tara Kramer, Kim Merrill and Isabel Lanzetta. One of these days, we may see them again ... here at the festival with their own books!

Koffler Room 216 (Seats 89, Wheelchair accessible)  
Sun, Mar 15, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm
Multigenre

Panelists: Tara Kramer, Isabel Lanzetta, Kim Merrill
Moderator: Meg Files