Rebecca Rukeyser, author of "The Seaplane on Final Approach" w Piper Lane

Hilarious, sensual, and charged with menace, Rebecca Rukeyser's novel, The Seaplane on Final Approach brilliantly illuminates the mirage-thin line between the artificial and the feral. In this daring and psychologically razor-sharp debut, Rukeyser’s characters tear aside the facade of good manners to reveal all of our deepest needs and naked desires.

She appears in conversation tonight with Seattle writer Piper Lane

"A libidinous young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this hilarious and sensual novel "about people who belong everywhere and nowhere and the vast, unknowable wilderness of desire.... Sexy and dark and strange and absolutely perfect” (Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House)."

Rebecca Rukeyser earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the recipient of the inaugural Berlin Senate Department of Culture grant for non-German literature. Her fiction has appeared in such publications as ZYZZYVA, The Massachusetts Review, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Originally from California, she has lived and worked in South Korea, Japan, Turkey, China, and (of course) Alaska. She currently teaches creative writing at Bard College Berlin

Piper Lane is a writer, teacher, doula and fisherman born and raised in Homer, Alaska. She holds an MFA from University of Washington and an MA from Ohio University, and commercial fished in Prince William Sound and in Bristol Bay. She currently resides in Seattle and was a Hugo House fellow in 2019-20 and a Hedgebrook resident in 2022. Her work can be found in PANK, the Fourth River, Territory, and elsewhere

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