Book Launch: Earthen
Schedule
Tue, 23 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
1302 4 St SW #100, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0X8 | Calgary, AB
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Katherine Koller has a new collection of short stories, Earthen, exploring our relations and their entanglement with the natural world. Rona Altrows joins Koller in conversation and comaraderie at Shelf Life Books, June 23, at 7 PM.ABOUT THE BOOK
The characters in the short stories of Earthen are all in need of guidance: mothers, widows and wives, grandmas and grandpas, teachers, lovers, and the young. They find messages in the earth and rock beneath their feet, the mountains and atmosphere above, or the creatures surrounding them: birds and animals, plants and trees. The natural world insists on a relationship with both characters and readers of Earthen, in stories ranging from realism to fable to speculative fiction.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Katherine Koller is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, novelist and short story writer. Books are Voices of the Land: The Seed Savers and Other Plays; Art Lessons, a novel; and Winning Chance: Stories, winner of a High Plains Book Award. Short fiction has appeared in Grain, Room, Epiphany, Alberta Views, LitSphere, EDify, The Fiddlehead, and Through the Portal. An avid gardener, Katherine is a founding producer of Edmonton Script Salon, a longstanding monthly new play reading series. www.katherinekoller.ca.
Rona Altrows was born and raised in Montreal and lives in Calgary. Both cities inform her writing. She writes fiction, essays, plays, and hybrid pieces. Her books include two collections of short stories, A Run on Hose (2006) and Key in Lock (2010) as well as a collection of fictional letters, At This Juncture (2018). In response to the 2013 Calgary flood, she wrote a children's book,The River Throws a Tantrum, to help the city's kids deal with their experiences and feelings. Her work has been published widely in magazines in Canada and the US, most recently in Queen's Quarterly and Isele Magazine. Rona Altrows is also the editor of You Look Good for Your Age, an anthology on women, aging, and ageism. With Julie Sedivy she co-edited the anthology Waiting and with Naomi K. Lewis she co-edited Shy. The honours she has received over the years include the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize for A Run on Hose and the Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award for the essay "Letter of Intent," which appears in Waiting.
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