An Evening with Ellen Waterston & Joe Wilkins

Please join us for an evening with Ellen Waterston, author of Where the Crooked River Rises and Walking the High Desert, and Joe Wilkins, author of Fall Back Down When I Die. Ellen will present excerpts from her upcoming book, and Joe will discuss his new book, The Entire Sky.

The Entire Sky

With echoes of Demon Copperhead and Plainsong, a poignant story about a troubled boy on the run, an aging rancher, and a woman at a crossroads, who find unexpected solace and kinship in the family they make.

With its lyricism, tangible evocation of place, and piercing insight reminiscent of the novels of Barbara Kingsolver and Kent Haruf, The Entire Sky is an unforgettable piece of modern, American fiction.

Joe Wilkins is the author of the novel Fall Back Down When I Die, which was short-listed for the First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, and the award-winning memoir The Mountain and the Fathers. He has published four books of poetry, including Thieve and When We Were Birds, winner of the Oregon Book Award, and his stories, essays, and poems have appeared in the Georgia Review, the Harvard Review, Orion, and elsewhere. He is a Pushcart Prize winner, a three-time High Plains Book Award winner, and a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the National Magazine Award, and the PEN/USA Award. He lives with his wife and two children in western Oregon, where he teaches writing at Linfield University.

Former rancher and current Oregon Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston is the author of the essay collection Where the Crooked River Rises: A High Desert Home (OSU Press) and three collections of poetry. She is the founder of the Bend, Oregon literary festival The Nature of Words and instructor and founder of the Writing Ranch, which hosts writing workshops in central Oregon and awards the annual Waterston Desert Writing Prize.