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Author, poet, mountain woman and professor Karen Auvinen will speak about her new memoir, Rough Beauty.
Author Karen Auvinen
Rough Beauty traces Auvinen's journey as she recovered from a devastating fire at her home that burned every word she'd ever written as well as many family treasures and forced her to reconcile her love of solitude with her need for community.
Named one of the 10 best books of June by the Christian Science Monitor and called "breathtaking" by Publishers Weekly, Rough Beauty captures the introspection that happens at the convergence of the wild places in ourselves and the natural world.
Auvinen's work has appeared in the New York Times as well as numerous literary journals. A former Artist-in-Residence for the State of Colorado, she is the winner of two Academy of American Poets awards and has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes in fiction.
Auvinen earned her MA in poetry from the University of Colorado-Boulder, under the mentorship of Lucia Berlin, and went on to earn her PhD in fiction writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Currently, she teaches film and popular culture at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Books will be available for purchase and a book signing will follow.
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