Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Red Cloud Opera House and Art Gallery
413 N Webster St
Red Cloud, NE 68970
United States
We are pleased to welcome acclaimed author Kali Fajardo-Anstine, who will join us for an invited lecture, "From Bookshelf to Dreamworld: Cather and the Underground Stream." A book-signing will follow this program at the National Willa Cather Center Bookstore, where you can purchase Fajardo-Anstine's books Woman of Light and Sabrina and Corina.
This event will be presented from the Red Cloud Opera House, and will also be available digitally below.
In her introduction for the 2023 Penguin Classics edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop, Fajardo-Anstine writes, "The novel reminded me of my insatiable childhood reading habits...Cather had awoken in me a type of pleasure-reading that over the years had eroded with deadlines, assignments, and the long list of reasons why we do not read out of desire but instead out of duty." We look forward to hearing more from Fajardo-Anstine about the readerly imagination that Cather's work inspires.
Funding for this event was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
About Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally best-selling author of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina and Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Fajardo-Anstine is the 2022-2024 Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University. She is from Denver, Colorado.