Courtney Marie Andrews - Love Is A Dog That Bites When It's Scared

Fri, 05 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm UTC-05:00

15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240 | Iowa City

Prairie Lights Bookstore
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Courtney Marie Andrews - Love Is A Dog That Bites When It's Scared
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Prairie Lights and the Iowa City Songwriters Festival present Grammy nominated musician and poet Courtney Marie Andrews, who will read from and sign copies of her new book of poetry, Love is a Dog That Bites When It’s Scared.
With the same vulnerability and timelessness as her debut collection Old Monarch, Love Is a Dog That Bites When It’s Scared acknowledges the layers to our feelings, experiences, and humanity. Inspired by her own life, Courtney Marie Andrews speaks gently to love and its many layers. She comforts readers with the knowledge that though love is confusing, unorganized, bewitching, and often too hard, it is also magical, and surreal, and always worth it.

Courtney Marie Andrews is the 2025 Iowa City Songwriters Festival’s Artist-In-Residence. Her marquee performance is on September 6th at The Englert, and she will also perform an exclusive concert with Deb Talan at Trumpet Blossom to kick off the festival on Sept 4th. Andrews is a poet and Grammy nominated singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona. When she’s not traveling around the world playing music, she’s writing and hiking in the woods.

This special in-store event is free and open to the public. Please note that it will start an hour earlier than most of our weekday events: 6 PM.
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