Western Carolina University’s annual spring literary festival, now in its 13th year, takes place Monday-Thursday, April 13-16. Events are free and open to the public. Presenters include Jeremy b. Jones, author of Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland; David Joy, author or Where All Light Tends to Go; poets Brett Martin and Tracy K. Smith and many others. See the full schedule here.
Tiya Miles, a professor, author and recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, will present on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. in the UC Center.
Press release from event organizers:
Professor, author, and MacArthur “genius” Tiya Miles, who was recently profiled in The Detroit Free Press, is celebrating her debut novel The Cherokee Rose and will be appearing at WCU’s Spring Literary Festival. The book has been positively reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Foreword Reviews, among others. The Cherokee Rose follows three modern-day women on separate journeys that lead to a plantation once owned by a Cherokee chief in Chatsworth, Georgia. The novel is based on the award-winning research Dr. Miles has done on the interrelated experience of Native Americans and African Americans in the antebellum South.
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