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National best-selling and award-winning author will talk with writer, audio producer and local bookseller Kirbie Bennet.
National best-selling and award-winning author will talk with writer, audio producer and local bookseller Kirbie Bennet to discuss research for her latest book “Woman of Light” that was based in Durango and Denver.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally bestselling author of the novel Woman of Light (Random House, 2022), winner of the Reading the West Award in Fiction, the Women Writing the West Willa Award in Historical Fiction, and nominated for the Colorado Book Award, the Carol Shields Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.
Fajardo-Anstine’s first book is the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina & Corina (Random House, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, the Story Prize, the Saroyan International Prize, and winner of a American Book Award and a Reading the West Award in Fiction.
Fajardo-Anstine is also a well-regarded speaker and has delivered lectures and keynotes across the country for institutions such as Princeton University, the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, Tulane University, Mississippi State University, PEN America, and elsewhere. In 2024, she gave the commencement address for Fort Lewis College and the invited lecture for the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference. Her books have been included in many One Book One Community reading programs.
Born in Denver, Colorado, she is the second eldest of seven siblings. Fajardo-Anstine dropped out of high school weeks into her senior year, earning her GED and going on to graduate with a BA in English and Minor in Chicana/o Studies from Metropolitan State University of Denver. She holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming and worked for over a decade as an independent bookseller at West Side Books in North Denver.
Kirbie Bennett is a writer, audio producer and bookseller. He is part of the creative team that makes The Magic City of the Southwest, a regional history podcast. His work in print and audio has appeared in High Country News, KSUT Public Radio, The Durango Telegraph and 68-to-oh5, an online music journal. Kirbie is a member of the Navajo Nation and Durango, Colorado is another place he calls home.
Food and drinks provided!
Book sales by Maria's Bookstore.
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A bilingual program! ¡Un programa bilingüe!
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