What happens when reality upends expectations? These three authors explore through history, memoir and fiction women hailing from different eras who were forced to contend with difficult family relations and community prejudices, yet who stayed strong and held their ground.
| Where: | Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 16, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Tent (following presentation)
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| Genres: | Fiction / Literature, History / Biography, Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction |
| Moderator: | Mary Holden |
| Sponsors: | Session made possible courtesy of Beach Fleischman, Pepper Viner Homes |
Jane Little Botkin melds personal narratives of American families often with compelling stories of western women. A member of Western Writers of America and award-winning author, her new book "The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" brings far West Texas to life during the 1970s’ American Counterculture era....
Chris Enss is a New York Times best selling author who has penned more than 40 books on the subject of women of the American West. Her work has been honored with multiple awards including eleven Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, two Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, Oklahoma Center of the Book Award, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a Willa Cather Award for scholarly nonfiction from Women Writing the West....
Michele Feeney is an award-winning writer and lawyer, teacher, wife and mother. She resides in Arizona and in Michigan, where she owns part of a Christmas tree farm her ancestors homesteaded in 1850. Michele earned an MFA from Bennington College in 2022....
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