Join us for a session of productive exercises and discussion aimed at world building, creating concept art, and writing vivid settings with Miracle Country author Kendra Atleework and members of local non-profit organization First Draft, Khamron Brooks & Lorrie May Manuel. First Draft provides resources and community for artists, designers and creatives of all disciplines.

Advance registration is required.

We recognize that attendees may have varying degrees of comfort in group settings. Masks are optional but very welcome.

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 Miracle Country. She is the recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and was selected for The Best American Essays, edited by Ariel Levy. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and now lives in her hometown of Bishop, California.

Nevada Reads In Your Library brings authors and literary programming to public libraries across Nevada. This program is produced by Nevada Humanities and is made possible with support from Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.