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.
| Where: | Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm |
| Signing area: | UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Fiction / Literature |
| Moderator: | Liz Warren-Pederson |
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....
Michelle Tea is the author of over 20 books, most recently the novel "Little F." Her memoir, "Valencia," won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. She has received the PEN/America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award, the legendary Rona Jaffe Award, and was a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow....
Joshua Wheeler is the author of the essay collection "Acid West," which was named a best book of 2018 by Newsweek, The Paris Review, and O, The Oprah Magazine. He’s written for The New York Times, Alta, and Harper’s Magazine....
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