Pam Houston and Amy Irvine at Boulder Mountain Lodge

Bring your chairs, blankets, and masks for a socially-distanced discussion with authors Pam Houston and Amy Irvine on the lawn of Boulder Mountain Lodge. Following the talk, we invite you to visit Hell’s Backbone Grill to dine on the patio or order carry out. All guests will be required to wear masks for the duration of the event.

*MASKS REQUIRED*

Seating space is limited – RSVP REQUIRED: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-talk-and-picnic-with-amy-irvine-pam-houston-tickets-119676097429

NO PARKING at Boulder Mountain Lodge. Guests of this event can park at Hell’s Backbone Grill, along Hwy 12, or at the town park just north of the venue.

When the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine—who had never met—began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide. As the numbers of infected and dead rose and the nation split dangerously over the crisis, Houston and Irvine found their letters to one another as necessary as breath. Part tribute to wilderness, part indictment against tyranny and greed, Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place reveals the evolution of a friendship that galvanizes as it chronicles a strange new world.

AMY IRVINE is a sixth-generation Utahn and long-time public lands activist. Her memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, received the Orion Book Award, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and the Colorado Book Award. Irvine teaches in the MFA program of Southern New Hampshire University. She lives and writes off the grid in southwest Colorado, just spitting distance from her Utah homeland.

PAM HOUSTON is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me. She teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, is Professor of English at UC Davis, and cofounder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. She lives at nine thousand feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.