Torrey House Press presents Women Writing the West, a discussion moderated by Anne Holman of The King's English Bookshop

Join Karin Anderson, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, and Betsy Gaines Quammen at Church & State in Salt Lake City (370 S 300 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84111) for a panel discussion about women writing the west and writing women in the west. This panel will be moderated by Anne Holman of the King\’s English Bookshop, and Torrey House Press staff will be selling books. Do not miss this incredible discussion!

Karin Anderson is the author of What Falls Away:

Stacie Shannon Denetsosie confronts long-reaching effects of settler-colonialism on Native lives in a series of gritty, wildly imaginative stories. A young Navajo man catches a ride home alongside a casket he’s sure contains his dead grandfather. A gas station clerk witnesses the kidnapping of the newly crowned Miss Northwestern Arizona. A young couple’s search for a sperm donor raises questions of blood quantum. This debut collection grapples with a complex and painful history alongside an inheritance of beauty, ceremony, and storytelling.

Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of American Zion, an her latest nonfiction TRUE WEST: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America publishes on October 24 (get it early by attending the event!):

Misperceptions about land, politics, liberty, and self-determination threaten the well-being of people and communities across the country, and Gaines Quammen interrogates it all as she seeks to reconcile the anger and misunderstandings that continue to be fueled by the West’s enduring myths and complex history. Whether sitting down with a local resident seeking to protect his rural Utah town from Antifa or talking with grassroots organizers working across ideological divides, Gaines Quammen brings to life connections and contradictions that shape our politics and our lives far beyond the West.

Anne Holman is co-owner of The King\’s English Bookshop.

Torrey House Press will be selling books! This is a Utah Book Fest event brought to you by Utah Humanities in partnership with Torrey House Press.