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Announcing
Award-Winning Writer
Pete Fromm
June 28th, 2008
8:00 PM
Native Grounds Nursery
Mt. Shasta
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- Make a Night of It! -
Open mic at 6:30 PM (sign-ups at 6:15)
Reading by local poet
Cat Ruiz at 7:15 PM |
Pete Fromm's latest novel, As Cool As I Am (2003), earned him an unprecedented fourth Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award. Earlier winners were his novel How All This Started (2000), a story collection, Dry Rain (1997), and a memoir-- Indian Creek Chronicles (1993). Hailed as one of "America's best-kept literary secrets," he has published four other story collections, as well as more than a hundred stories in magazines. In addition to being a full time writer, Pete also teaches in Pacific University's MFA in Writing program. He lives with his family in Great Falls, Montana.
Pete's current project, a novel entitled If Not For This, which weaves life in the outdoors with the power of love and family, is set in Ashland, Oregon.
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Local Poet Cat Ruiz
Reading at 7:15 PM
Celebrate the release of Cat's first poetry book, Stirring up the Water, which won the Native Writers Circle of the Americas (US and Canada) First Book Award in Poetry (University of Oklahoma). Her book was released in March of this year by Salt Publishing, Ltd., Cambridge, UK (www.saltpublishing.com). |
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Cathy (Cat) Ruiz has presented her work at many Pacific Northwest reading series and venues including KUOW Radio, PoetsWest, the Seattle Poetry Festival, the Washington Poets Association's Burning Word Festival, was a nominee for Poet Populist of Seattle in 2005 and has presented her work in Berkeley, California. Her poems have appeared in several literary journals including Chrysanthemum, Raven Chronicles, PoetsWest Literary Journal, Switched-On Gutenberg and in three poetry anthologies. She is a published travel essayist (The Seattle Times) and a fiction writer. She currently teaches at College of the Siskiyous and will be teaching Native American Literature online this summer.
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Open mic sign ups begin at 6:15.
Mic opens at 6:30. |
Native Grounds Nursery
1172 S Mount Shasta Blvd # A,
Mt Shasta, CA
(530) 926-0555
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