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This event has been rescheduled to: Thursday, November 19 at 6pm
Events Area of the Cunningham Memorial Library
The Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series is pleased to welcome poet and novelist Jennifer Givhan! Please join us for a reading, with a Q&A and book signing to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist from the Southwestern desert and the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices. The Los Angeles Times called her novel Salt Bones (Mulholland/Little, Brown, 2025) “a triumph… one of the most masterful marriages of horror, mystery, thriller and literary writing” and it’s a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a Book Riot Best Mystery & Thriller of the Year, a Marie Claire Best Mystery-Thriller of the Year, a Library Journal Stellar Selection, and an American Library Association Best Book of the Year.
She holds a Master’s degree from California State University Fullerton and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College. She is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including Rosa’s Einstein (University of Arizona Press) and Belly to the Brutal (Wesleyan University Press), and the novels Trinity Sight and Jubilee (Blackstone Publishing), which were finalists for the Arizona-New Mexico Book Awards and won The Southwest Book Award. Her novel River Woman, River Demon was chosen for Amazon’s Book Club and as a National Together We Read Library Pick and was featured on CBS Mornings. It was a finalist for the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Western Novel and won an International Latino Book Award in the Rudolfo Anaya Latino-Focused Fiction category.
She writes in Albuquerque with her family.
The Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Cunningham Memorial Library - Indiana State University, 510 S 6 1/2 St, Terre Haute, IN 47807-4402, United States
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