Ana Maria Spagna, Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness

Start: 04/13/2012 7:30 pm

End: 04/13/2012 9:30 pm

Friday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Main Meeting Room, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
645 NW Monroe Avenue, Corvallis

This event is co-sponsored by OSU Press, the MFA Program in Creative Writing at OSU, Friends of the Library, and Grass Roots Books & Music.

In Potluck, Ana Maria Spagna explores the enduring human connection to place, journeying from Tijuana to a California beach to Utah’s canyon country—and, always, back to the sparsely populated valley in the North Cascades that she calls home. “What connects us?” Spagna asks, and she reveals, again and again, the gift of community—easy and uneasy, deep and enduring and essential.

Ana Maria Spagna lives in Stehekin, Washington, where she works on a National Park Service trail crew. Her essays have appeared in Orion, Utne Reader, Open Spaces, Backpacker, and Best Essays NW. Now Go Home is her first book.

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