An Evening with Stephanie Reents In Conversation With Andrew Altschul

Name: An Evening with Stephanie Reents In Conversation With Andrew Altschul
Start: 2025-10-02T19:00:00-06:00
Location: 232 Walnut St, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Colorado 80524

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

232 Walnut St, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Colorado 80524 | Fort Collins, CO

Join us at Old Firehouse Books as we welcome Stephanie Reents for her latest release, We Loved To Run! Stephanie will be in store on October 2nd from 7:00-8:00pm for a reading and discussion of the book, joined by Andrew Altschul, before signing copies and snapping pictures! Books will be available to purchase in store or online, but we unfortunately don't ship internationally. We hope to see you there!
About the book:
At Frost, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts, the runners on the women’s cross country team have their sights set on the 1992 New England Division Three Championships and will push themselves through every punishing workout and skipped meal to achieve their goal. But Kristin, the team’s star, is hiding a secret about what happened over the summer, and her unpredictable behavior jeopardizes the girls’ chance to win. Team Captain Danielle is convinced she can restore Kristin’s confidence, even if it means burying her own past. As the final meet approaches, Kristin, Danielle, and the rest of the girls must transcend their individual circumstances and run the race as a team.
Told from the perspective of the six fastest team members, We Loved to Run deftly illuminates the impossible standards young women set for themselves in spite of their own powerlessness. With startling honesty and boundless empathy, Stephanie Reents reveals how girls—even those in competition—find ways to love and defend one another.
About Stephanie Reents:
Stephanie Reents is the author of The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and I Meant to K*ll Ye, a bibliomemoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. She has twice received an O. Henry Prize for her short fiction. Reents received a BA from Amherst College, where she ran on the cross country team all four years; a BA from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; and an MFA from the University of Arizona. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
About Andrew Altschul:
Andrew Altschul is the author of three novels, including most recently The Gringa. His stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Fence, and anthologies including Best New American Voices and O. Henry Prize Stories. A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford, and a long-time contributing editor at ZYZZYVA, he now teaches at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins with his wife, the writer Vauhini Vara, and their son.