Join the Transylvania County Library Foundation and Brevard College for two unforgettable evenings of live readings and conversation with nationally acclaimed authors, part of the 2025 Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference.
Friday, May 16 – Porter Center, Brevard College (1 Brevard College Drive):
Award-winning novelist Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, author of Even As We Breathe, will open the series with a reading and conversation. The first enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to publish a novel, Clapsaddle is a celebrated voice in contemporary Appalachian and Native American literature. Her debut was a finalist for the Weatherford Award and named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020. She lives in Cherokee, NC, where she also works as an educator and advocate for emerging writers.
Saturday, May 17 – Rogow Room, Transylvania County Library (212 S. Gaston Street):
Elizabeth Rush is the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World. Known for her elegant and urgent nonfiction, Rush writes about climate change through the lens of lived experience, vulnerability, and resilience. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Orionet Harper’s, and she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.
Terrance Hayes is a poet and educator whose seven collections include Lighthead, winner of the National Book Award, and American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award. His writing blends formal innovation with personal and cultural depth, exploring identity, history, and language. A former MacArthur Fellow, Hayes has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation and currently teaches creative writing at NYU.
Each event includes a Q&A and book signing. Books available on-site from Highland Books.
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