An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver

The Stanford Graduate School of Education is grateful to the following Stanford partners and co-sponsors:

Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities, Center to Support Excellence in Teaching, and Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence, Doctoral Fellowship Program, Stanford Haas Center for Public Service and the Stanford Storytelling Project.

6:00 p.m. | Light Reception and Stanford Bookstore Sales: King Community Court

6:45 p.m. | Doors open: CEMEX Auditorium [please have your Eventbrite ticket barcode loaded on your phone, or your ticket printed and ready for scanning]

7:00 p.m. | Program begins

8:15 p.m. | Program concludes

Please note that although Stanford Bookstore will be selling Kingsolver's books, the author will not be signing books.

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Seating is first-come, first served. The event will begin on time, please allow plenty of time to get from your parking place to the auditorium before the doors open at 6:45. A light reception begins at 6:00 pm. 

“I wrote this book for my people because we are so invisible to the rest of the world.” Barbara Kingsolver on being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Demon Copperhead. Kingsolver will do a reading from Demon Copperhead and reflect on the Appalachian experience.

KINGSOLVER is a novelist, essayist, and poet. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead, a contemporary re-telling of David Copperfield set in Appalachia at the onset of the opioid epidemic. Kingsolver is also the author of 10 bestselling works including Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, the highest honor given by the U.S. government for service through the arts, as well as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have been adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges throughout the nation. Kingsolver lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

LISA GOLDMAN ROSAS, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine

Goldman Rosas’ research focuses on addressing inequities in nutrition, chronic diseases, and social determinants of health. She partners with patients, caregivers, community organizations in order to affect the greatest improvements in health and well-being.

SARAH LEVINE, Assistant Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education

Levine studies the teaching and learning of literary interpretation and writing. She works to help students — especially those in under-resourced schools — become fulfilled readers and writers.

Learn more: ed.stanford.edu/kingsolver

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Recommended (free) parking is located in the Knight Management Center Garage below the Knight Management Center located at 655 Knight Way, Stanford.

Kingsolver photo credit: Evan Kafka

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