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
| Where: | UA Library/Special Collections (Seats 110)  |
| When: | Sat, Mar 14, 2:30 pm - 3:25 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Southwest Books of the Year |
| Moderator: | Mark Athitakis |
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....
Nathan Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller "The Sweetness of Water," an Oprah’s Book Club pick. It was the winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and longlisted for the Booker Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize....
After a long career as a non-fiction writer, Anne Hillerman published her first mystery, "Spider Woman's Daughter" in 2013. The story and the series that followed, continued the adventures of Navajo law enforcement characters created by her father, Tony Hillerman, and added many new twists....
A. Muia is the winner of the Flannery Award for Short Fiction for her novel "A Desert Between Two Seas," a 2026 top pick for the Southwest Book of the Year. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Chicago Review, Grist, Image Journal, Water-Stone Review, West Branch, and AWP's The Writer's Chronicle....
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