Playing with {Wild}fire: Author Talk with Laura Pritchett (TMI)
OSHR 3352Evacuation orders are coming. A wildfire is bearing down. Playing With {Wild} Fire recounts the trauma and communal moments of a mountain town’s inhabitants as wildfire roars their way.
Come hear award-winning author Laura Pritchett discuss her experimental and relevant novel, set in the LaPorte and Bellvue areas. She will talk about the book and offer a slideshow of the Cameron Peak fire that burned into our memories. This book experiments with experimental form to subvert storytelling expectations, is told in polyphonic voices to inspire inclusion, and focuses on the community that is built during times of trauma. This book plays with expectations at every level and shows that demolition might be an opportunity for renovation in the ways we choose to live on planet Earth.
*Laura Pritchett writes fiction that is rooted in the natural world—and celebrates the people who live close to it. She’s the author of seven novels, two nonfiction books, and editor of three anthologies, and her work has been the recipient of the PEN USA Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the WILLA, the High Plains Book Award, and several Colorado Book Awards. She’s also a freelance writer with publications in the LA Times, The New York Times, Orion, Terrain, The Colorado Sun, Salon, Creative Nonfiction, and more. She holds a PhD from Purdue, and she directs the low-residency MFA in Nature Writing at Western Colorado University, one of the few graduate programs dedicated to writing about the natural world. She was born in Fort Collins! Learn more about Laura at www.laurapritchett.com
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Testimonials
- "An immersive story of a changing landscape, innovatively told." - Kirkus Reviews
- "The broad sweeping compassion of this polyvocal novel took my breath away." - Camille T. Dungy