Kendra Atleework

Saturday, October 22, 5 - 7pm

Reading of Award Winning Fiction by California-based Writer

Kendra Atleework was born and raised on the dry edge of California at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. She moved away for a decade, mostly spent being homesick and researching the place she left behind – the product of which is her first book Miracle Country (2021), winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award and the 2021 Women Writing the West WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in Best American Essays, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and now lives in her hometown of Bishop, California.

A bittersweet tribute to home and family in breathtaking prose, Atleework melds the story of her family – broken and bereaved after the death of her mother – with the ravages of climate change and its permanent destruction of the way of life in one particular town. A story of flight and return, bounty and emptiness, and the true meaning of home, Miracle Country unveils our complex need for home and our fear and love for the awe-inspiring Earth.

» This reading is presented in cooperation with the Churchill
Library Association and supported by Nevada Humanities. «