La Cañada Flintridge Library
4545 North Oakwood Ave, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
The city of La Cañada Flintridge has chosen Miracle Country for this year's "One City, One Book" program and will be hosting this free event at the La Cañada Flintridge Library.
Churchill Arts Council
Fallon, NV
A conversation, Q&A, and book signing at the beautiful Churchill Arts Council.
Northland College
1411 Ellis Ave S, Ashland, WI 54806
Two days of presentations celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute.
Boulder City Library
701 Adams Blvd, Boulder City, NV 89005
Kendra Atleework will talk with author Michael P. Branch about living and writing in the desert, and Branch’s new book, On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer.
This book reveals the never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, the very real scientific breakthrough it inspired—and how it became a cultural touchstone of the American West.
Book signing and Q&A to follow.
West Las Vegas Library
951 W Lake Mead Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89106
Details and pre-registration for writing workshop TBA
Windmill Library
7060 W Windmill Ln., Las Vegas, NV 89113
Details TBA
Mammoth Lakes Welcome Center
2510 Main St, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546
Come chat and ask questions about Miracle Country! Books available for sale + signing.
Long Beach, CA, at the Convention Center. Buy tickets here
Seven authors speak about their books and craft. Books for sale and book signings.
Spanish Springs Library
7100 Pyramid Way
Sparks, NV, 89436
Join us for Nevada Reads In Your Library, and meet 2021 Nevada Reads author, Kendra Atleework, for a reading and discussion. Atleework will read from her powerful debut, Miracle Country: A Memoir of a Family and a Landscape, and speak about memoir writing, family, and how spending time in the high desert has shaped her work.
Spanish Springs Library
Patagonia Reno
130 South Center Street
Reno, NV, 89501
Doors open at 7 pm, presentation begins at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $10 members, $15 nonmembers at sciencedistilled.org or at the door.
The Great Basin and Eastern Sierra Nevada have inspired countless writers, artists, poets, musicians, and scientists who strive to understand the place we call home.
This Science Distilled event welcomes Kendra Atleework, author of the acclaimed book and 2021 Nevada Reads selection, Miracle Country: A Memoir of a Family and a Landscape, in conversation with two Desert Research Institute scientists who have dedicated their careers to the study of the Great Basin.
Join us for a special evening filled with rich conversation about the relationships between people and their places. Through science and storytelling, we’ll delve deeply into the environment around us. Learn more about how art, life, and science intersect here among the rugged ridgelines and open skies of our wondrous region.
South Valleys Library
15650-A Wedge Parkway
Reno, NV, 89511
Join us for Nevada Reads In Your Library, and meet 2021 Nevada Reads author, Kendra Atleework, for a reading and discussion. Atleework will read from her powerful debut, Miracle Country: A Memoir of a Family and a Landscape, and speak about memoir writing, family, and how spending time in the high desert has shaped her work.
10:00am-12:00pm Pacific
A writing workshop lead by Kendra Atleework. (Participants are not required to submit materials in advance.)
SNC Tahoe's Writers in the Woods features well-known poets and writers from all over the country presenting readings and workshops.
Hosted by Sierra Nevada University. Register here.
5:00pm Pacific
A reading from Miracle Country by Kendra Atleework.
SNC Tahoe's Writers in the Woods features well-known poets and writers from all over the country presenting readings and workshops.
Hosted by Sierra Nevada University. Register here.
9:00am Pacific
The Eastern Sierra History Conference features noted scholars, historians, local personalities, and authors to educate the community, and to remind everyone about the rich history of the Eastern Sierra region.
Hosted by the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association. Register here.
11:30am, Las Vegas, NV
Roaming the Desert: Writing Home and Landscape with Kendra Atleework and Victoria Blanco.
Keen observers of nature, and engaging storytellers learn about the work and experiences of these two captivating authors. Kendra Atleework is the winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, the 2021 Women Writing the West WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, and 2021 pick for Nevada’s statewide books club, Nevada Reads. Victoria Blanco is a writer from El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, and is a recipient of a Fulbright Award, the 2018 Roxane Gay Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction for the Jack Jones Literary Arts writers' retreat, as well as a Fellow in the 2019 Culture, Too Conference, hosted by Jack Jones Literary Arts, and a Fellow in the 2017-2018 Loft Mentor Series. Her first book, Out of the Sierra, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press.
At the Inspire Tent. Details here.
5:00pm Pacific
Reading and author Q&A. The Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Awards recognize the best in environmental writing in adult nonfiction and children’s literature.
Hosted by Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Register here.
7:00pm Pacific
Kendra will talk Miracle Country and writing California with author Alex Espinoza, author of the novels Still Water Saints and The Five Acts of Diego León, and Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. Alex teaches at UC-Riverside where he serves as the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing.
Hosted by Napa Bookmine. Register here.
A two-part workshop focusing on writing place/landscape/setting, hosted by the Nevada Reads program and Nevada Humanities.
Part 1: Saturday, July 10, 1-2 pm
Part 2: Saturday, July 17, 1-2 pm
Sign up + details here
(Check this page for details on another workshop to be offered later this year)
Right here in Bishop, California, outside on the back patio of the Pupfish Cafe / behind Spellbinder Books
No Zooming required! Miracle Country is now available in paperback! Get your copy signed, get some snacks from the Pupfish Cafe, and hang out. (Yes, we will be in the shade!)
12:00 pm Pacific
Kendra will celebrate the paperback launch of Miracle Country in conversation with Michael P. Branch, fellow desert writer and the author of three books, most recently How to Cuss in Western.
Hosted by Sundance Books & Music of Reno, Nevada and The Writer’s Block of Las Vegas, Nevada.
5:00 pm Pacific
In honor of Earth Day, Kendra Atleework will talk about Miracle Country and answer questions for the Pasadena Public Library Authors & Their Journeys series.
2:00 pm Pacific
Meet the Authors! A Discussion with Kendra Atleework and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
A discussion and Q&A moderated by author and educator Gayle Brandeis around our 2021 Nevada Reads theme, “Cultivating Environmental Literacy.” Our authors discuss their respective books, Miracle Country: A Memoir (Atleework) and World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Nezhukumatathil), their experiences and motivation for writing these memoirs, and their thoughts on the connection between literature and the natural world.
12:00-1:30 pm Pacific
Join us for "Environmental Storytelling" with authors Kendra Atleework and Clare Boerigter, hosted by the Environmental Humanities of the University of Minnesota. In Miracle Country, Kendra blends family memoir with a rich environmental history of her California home-place. In her work for the Cloquet Forestry Center (CFC), Clare enlivens science and history through storytelling. Explore Clare's work for the CFC, including a multimedia piece on old-growth red pines and a historical collection of life at the Center.
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5:00 pm Pacific
This annual reading features debut books from alums of the University of Minnesota graduate programs. Readings by Mike Alberti (Some People Let You Down), Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country), Joseph Harris (You’re in the Wrong Place), and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies alum Beaudelaine Pierre (You May Have the Suitcase Now).
Register here
9:00 am Pacific
Miracle Country is the December pick for the ESIA History Book Club. Join us for a conversation with the author, followed by a Q&A.
Learn more and sign up here.
Scripps @Noon: A Reading and Conversation with alumnae Kendra Atleework and April Dávila
12:00-12:30 PST
Register here
Kendra interviews Lee Van Der Voo, author of As the World Burns. Hosted by Third Place Books.
6:00pm PDT
Attend on Zoom here.
Panel: The Earth’s Story is Also Our Story: Ethics, the Environment, and Non-Fiction
Watch recording here.
Chatting with a bunch of Eastern Sierra locals, including second grade photos.
Watch the recording here.