Book Launch: 'Woman House' by Lauren W. Westerfield

With Special Guest Laura Read

A book launch for award-winning writer Lauren W. Westerfield. Her new collection of essays, 'Woman House,' is the winner of the 2025 Juniper Prize in Nonfiction. Auntie's Bookstore will sell books.

About the presenters: Lauren W. Westerfield is the author of Woman House and Depth Control. Her essays and poetry have been published in FENCE, Seneca Review, Willow Springs, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Westerfield is a 2022 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow. She teaches at Washington State University, where she serves as the editor-in-chief of Blood Orange Review.

Laura Read is the author of The Serious World, But She Is Also Jane, Dresses from the Old Country, Instructions for my Mother’s Funeral, and The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You. She teaches at Spokane Falls Community College and in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University.

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