January 19 Guests

KIM EDWARDS
Kim Edwards’  stories and essays have since appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Anteaus, Story, and The Paris Review.  They have won many honors, including a National Magazine Award for Excellence in Fiction and a Pushcart Prize, as well as inclusion in The Best American Short Stories. Her story collection The Secrets of a Fire King was short-listed for the 1998 Pen/Hemingway Award, and she received a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2002.  Her novel, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, was selected for a Barnes and Noble Discovery Award and won the Kentucky Literary Award for Fiction in 2005.  The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, a #1 New York Times Best Seller in the United States, will also be published in Italy, Japan, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Portugal, Spain, Poland, China, Taiwan, Israel, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

SHANNON DEARMOND
Created in 2005, the Yolo Crow is a quarterly literary magazine that celebrates the writings of the people of Yolo County. Their mission is to give local writers a place to publish and to be read, and to provide Yolo County with a cross-section of literature that represents the myriad of perspectives and visions in our county. They use a local independent printer and sell only at local independent book stores. Their goal is to give writers the opportunity to publish and to put the best of what they have to offer into the hands Yolo County readers.