Day: July 19, 2018

EVENT: Katie Williams

Friday, July 20, 2018
7 pm
BookPeople

Katie Williams reads from her new book, Tell the Machine Goodnight. Her short fiction has appeared in The AtlanticAmerican Short FictionPrairie SchoonerSubtropics, and elsewhere. Williams earned her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches writing and literature at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She is the author of two young adult novels, The Space Between Trees and Absent. This is her first novel for adults.

EVENT: Carrie Fountain

Thursday, July 12, 2018
7 pm
BookPeople

2004 MCW alum Carrie Fountain reads from her YA debut I’M NOT MISSING.

Carrie Fountain’s poems have appeared in Tin HousePoetry, and The New Yorker, among others. Her debut collection, Burn Lake, was a National Poetry Series winner and was published in 2010 by Penguin. Her second collection, Instant Winner, was published by Penguin in 2014. I’m Not Missing is her debut novel. Born and raised in Mesilla, New Mexico, Carrie received her MFA as a fellow at the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently writer-in-residence at St. Edward’s University, she lives in Austin with her husband and their two children.