The Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series is pleased to welcome poet, novelist, and essayist Jennifer Givhan!
- Thursday, November 19 at 6 pm
- Library Events Area, Cunningham Memorial Library
Please join us for a reading, with a Q&A and book signing to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
About Jennifer Givhan
Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist from the Southwestern desert and the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices. The Los Angeles Times called her novel Salt Bones (Mulholland/Little, Brown, 2025) “a triumph… one of the most masterful marriages of horror, mystery, thriller and literary writing” and it’s a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a Book Riot Best Mystery & Thriller of the Year, a Marie Claire Best Mystery-Thriller of the Year, a Library Journal Stellar Selection, and an American Library Association Best Book of the Year.
In her latest novel, The Sleeping Sisters, a threatened mother and a relentless detective collide when a series of murders awaken something long buried in the New Mexican desert in this mesmerizing novel of literary horror, perfect for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Stephen Graham Jones. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author T. Kingfisher said of The Sleeping Sisters: “House of Spirits meets The Wire in this marvelously strange story of murder and motherhood; a gloriously surreal novel in which magical realism meets police procedural....I have no idea how to describe what I just read, but it was really, really cool.”