A woman looks for a missing friend. An alcoholic musician can’t get rid of a mysterious four-legged visitor, and a teen wonders about the stranger at the edge of town. These three novelists will tell us about stories that became Southwest Books of the Year.
Sydney Graves is a pseudonym used Kate Christensen, an Arizona native and the author of eight novels, most recently, "Arizona Triangle." Her fourth novel, "The Great Man," won a PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction....
Marcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing....
Willy Vlautin is an author and musician who has written seven novels, the latest being "The Horse." Three of his books, "The Motel Life," "Lean on Pete" and "The Night Always Comes," have been adapted into movies, and his work has been translated into 15 languages....