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SUMMARY:Book Event: Maya Jewell Zeller in conversation with Sharma Shields at Fact & Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Raised by Ferns author Maya Jewell Zeller in conversation with Sharma Shields at Fact & Fiction in Downtown Missoula at 7:00 pm Monday\, March 16\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book: From award-winning poet\, essayist\, and highly-lauded educator Maya Jewell Zeller comes Raised by Ferns\, a memoir of growing up feral in rural America\, told in interconnected essays that move between a precariously settled adulthood and the narrator’s unconventional past. Praised by Jess Walter as “Lovely\, vital writing that challenges and makes personal the tired conceptions and biases we have about poverty” and by Jamie Ford as “A luminous meditation on growing up with empty pockets but a heart full of wildflowers\,” Raised by Ferns will appeal to readers interested in place-based writing\, class tensions\, the struggles and joys of parenthood and family\, and the trouble with systems that don’t serve most of us. \n\n\n\nAbout Maya: A 2024 Washington State Artist Trust Fellow\, Maya Jewell Zeller is most recently the author of The Wonder of Mushrooms (AdventureKEEN\, 2025); and out takes/ glove box (New American Press\, 2023)\, chosen by Eduardo Corral as winner of the 2022 New American Poetry Prize and praised by Diane Seuss as “ the kind of deft performance only a mermaid or a mother could pull off.” Jewell Zeller is also co-author\, with Kathryn Nuernberger\, of Advanced Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury\, 2024) as well as the interdisciplinary collaboration\, with visual artist Carrie DeBacker\, Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (Entre Rios Books\, 2017). Earlier collections include the chapbook Yesterday\, the Bees (Floating Bridge Press\, 2015) and Rust Fish (Lost Horse Press\, 2011). She also co-edited\, with Washington State Book Award winner Sharma Shields\, the multi-genre anthology Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses From the Gloomy Northwest (Scablands Books\, 2021). Recipient of a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation\, a Writing Fellowship from Oxford\, and two residencies in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest\, Jewell Zeller has presented her work in Madrid\, as part of the Unamuno Author Festival\, and at the University of Oxford. She serves as Professor for Central Washington University and as Affiliate Faculty in Poetry and Nature Writing for the low-residency MFA at Western Colorado University. She lives in the Inland Northwest with her teens. \n\n\n\nAbout Sharma: SHARMA SHIELDS is the author of a short story collection\, Favorite Monster (Autumn House Press 2012)\, and three novels\, The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac (Henry Holt 2015)\, The Cassandra (Henry Holt 2019)\, and Duckling (forthcoming from Henry Holt in 2027) . Sharma’s short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Electric Lit\, Catapult\, Slice\, Slate\, Kenyon Review\, Iowa Review\, Fugue\, and elsewhere and have garnered such prizes as the 2020 PNBA Award\, a 2020 Artist Trust Fellowship\, 2016 Washington State Book Award\, the Autumn House Fiction Prize\, the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor\, and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. She managed a small press\, Scablands Books (now dormant)\, and is a contributing editor for Moss. Sharma has worked in independent bookstores and public libraries throughout Washington State and is currently the Writing Education Specialist for Spokane Public Library. In autumn of 2025\, Sharma received a Humanities Washington Changemaker Award for her library service and contributions to the Inland Northwest literary community.
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LOCATION:Fact & Fiction\, 220 N. Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
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SUMMARY:Local Author Julie Petrou - Reading and Signing at Fact & Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Meet local author Julie Petrou for a Reading and Signing at Fact & Fiction at 7:00 pm Wednesday\, March 18\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Books: \n\n\n\nShadows of Defiance: For Anna\, a teacher in 1952\, a simple errand becomes a journey into the past. Ripped from her own time and thrown into the brutal Second Seminole War of 1835\, she finds herself in a strange world\, with a purpose she doesn’t understand. Although drawn to Alligator\, a brave Muskogee leader\, Anna’s true mission is to save the life of a woman who will become her great-great-grandmother. Every step in the past is a fight for her family’s future\, yet a bond with Alligator forms\, leading to a connection more profound than she could have imagined. Anna soon learns that her visit to the past has created a link that can never be broken. Unwillingly returned to her own time\, she is heartbroken\, pregnant\, and alone. Having completed her mission by saving her ancestor\, she must accept the impossible truth: she is carrying Alligator’s child\, a legacy that will forever bind her to a century she was never meant to be a part of. \n\n\n\nGuardian: Origin of the Amulet: When the Spanish arrive on Incan soil\, Aniya’s fate is sealed – until her father\, a master of ancient mystical enchantments\, forges a powerful amulet to protect her. But\, protection comes at a price. Torn between duty and heart\, the young conquistador\, Mateo\, defies an empire to save her and rescue her family from an uncertain fate. Together the flee to the quiet shores of Guadeloupe\, hoping to build a life of peace. But the world they left behind refuses to forget them. With pirates on the horizon and old enemies closing in\, they must stand together. Aniya and Mateo rely on the amulet’s true power to protect them against impossible odds. They’re not only fighting for their lives\, they’re also fighting for their legacy. \n\n\n\nDream Keeper: Until now\, Andrea had never put stock in the mystic foretelling of a Tarot Reading. Her purchase of an enchanted amulet\, combined with a more than mysterious reading\, began a nightmare that whisked her away from all she knew and into a life of numerous dangers. Unwillingly thrust into a different century\, Andrea finds her purpose in 1798\, having been escorted to a place and a time that needs the amulet’s help. Fear\, friendship\, romance\, and history are played like instruments by the amulet’s divination\, as Andrea unravels the threads of its deeper story. Dream Keeper immerses the reader in life after war and the resettling of a diverse culture. This mesmerizing story will draw you into a mystery alongside a young woman who struggles with the turmoil of modern crimes against humanity and the trauma of being a victim. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author: Julie Petrou was born and raised in Idaho and now makes her home in western Montana. Having raised her children\, she now enjoys spending time with her grandchildren whenever she gets the chance. The author of three books\, she loves to see the results of her labors\, whether through gardening\, crafts\, reading\, or\, most of all\, writing. Always having a place in her heart for history\, she is currently focused on indigenous tribes. She applauds their continued reverence and respect for their traditions. Embracing the outdoors\, her family\, friends\, and her puppy companions\, Julie loves to create worlds through her writing that give life to her stories; both those of the present and those who came before us\, hoping they will be understood and appreciated for years to come.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/local-author-julie-petrou-reading-and-signing-at-fact-fiction/
LOCATION:Fact & Fiction\, 220 N. Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Woman House" author Lauren Westerfield in conversation with Brian Blanchfield at Fact & Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Meet “Woman House” author Lauren Westerfield in conversation with Brian Blanchfield at Fact & Fiction in Downtown Missoula at 7:00 pm Thursday\, March 26\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book\, “Woman House”: The essays and assemblages in this book plumb the depths of two women’s experiences\, exploring the pain and pleasure they find in their bodies\, in culture\, and in their own art. Violence\, beauty\, and love reverberate and dissipate and shape the forms and psyches of these two profoundly connected family members. At once raw and refined\, narrative and lyrical\, nostalgic and blunt\, the stories and images presented here explore Westerfield’s life—from childhood to adulthood—passing through innocence\, self-discovery and familial tethers. In unpacking her mother’s history and the complexities of their relationship\, Westerfield finds herself confronted with her own story: one grounded in a yearning for agency and individuation\, of a body and mind groomed to be at odds with one another\, of a feminist politics examining deeply rooted patriarchal understandings of beauty\, control\, and power. \n\n\n\nLauren W. Westerfield is the author of Woman House and Depth Control. Her essays and poetry have been published in FENCE\, Seneca Review\, Willow Springs\, Denver Quarterly\, Indiana Review\, Ninth Letter\, and elsewhere. Westerfield is a 2022 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow. She teaches at Washington State University\, where she serves as the editor-in-chief of Blood Orange Review. \n\n\n\nBrian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose: Proxies: Essays Near Knowing (Nightboat Books\, Picador UK)\, A Several World (Nightboat)\, and Not Even Then (University of California Press). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic\, Harper’s\, The Paris Review\, Oxford American\, BOMB\, Brick\, The Yale Review\, and in anthologies like Best American Essays and American Poets in the 21st Century\, among many other publications. The recipient of a Whiting Award in Nonfiction and the Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award\, he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Montana.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/woman-house-author-lauren-westerfield-in-conversation-with-brian-blanchfield-at-fact-fiction/
LOCATION:Fact & Fiction\, 220 N. Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
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