ABOUT KASE JOHNSTUN — Kase Johnstun is an award-winning novelist, memoirist, and essayist. He is the author two novels, Let the Wild Grasses Grow (Torrey House Press, 2021) and Cast Away (forthcoming from Torrey House Press), the medical memoir Beyond the Grip of Craniosynostosis, and co-editor/author of Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front. He is the current Manager at Utah Center for the Book.

ABOUT LISA CONNORS — Lisa Wence Connors retired from the US Army and is now a mercenary writer and poet. She divides her time between Salt Lake City, UT, Fruita, CO, and the open road. She works with troubled and struggling teens in Salt Lake County, as well as facilitating creative writing workshops for the Mesa County Public Library and the Grand Junction VA. She is the Editor of High Desert Cadence: A Journal of Veteran Creative Writing. Her work has been published in the journals Proud to Be, Alexandria Quarterly, Bluestem Literary Journal, and Atlas & Alice, among others, as well as the anthologies Groundhogs, Crones, and Other Poems, The Gyroscope Review 2023 Anthology, and We are the West: Tributaries. She has been awarded a 2023 Missouri Humanities Poetry Award and two Gold Medals for Poetry from the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival.

This free event is at Lithic Bookstore & Gallery, 138 S. Park Sq., Fruita, CO 81521, (970) 858-3636.