Valerie Nieman, current Writer-in-Residence, will read from her latest novel, In the Lonely Backwater, a mystery in the Southern gothic tradition, released in May 2022.

To the Bones, her genre-bending folk horror/thriller about coal country, was a finalist for the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award. She is also the author of Blood Clay (Eric Hoffer Award) and two other novels.

Free and open to the public. Registration required.