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Friday, April 10
 

6:00pm PDT

The Search for Belonging: Cults, Longing, and Awakening with Blair Glaser and Priya Hutner
Friday April 10, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Church of the Mountains
Join the 2nd Annual Truckee Literary Crawl for an intimate evening with author Priya Hutner celebrating her memoir, “Chasing Nirvana: A Seeker’s Story of Love, Loss, and Liberation,” and Blair Glaser, author of “This Incredible Longing,” for a thoughtful conversation exploring belief, devotion, spiritual entrapment and the courage to reclaim one’s inner authority. Moderated by...
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Authors
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Katherine Hill

Artistic Director & Co-Founder, Tahoe Literary Festival
Katherine Hill is the co-founder of the Tahoe Literary Festival, publisher of Tahoe Guide, and executive director of the Tahoe City Downtown Association. 
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Priya Hutner

Co-Founder, Programming Director, Tahoe Literary Festival
Priya Hutner is a writer and co-founder of the Tahoe Literary Festival and the Truckee Literary Crawl. Her work has been featured in the Tahoe Guide, Moonshine Ink, Muse Magazine, and TahoeCom. She writes about the arts, entertainment, culture, culinary trends, and reviews books... Read More →
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Blair Glaser

Blair Glaser is a writer and leadership consultant whose essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Provoked Magazine, Longreads, Oldster, Quartz, HuffPost, Inside Higher Ed, and others, as well as in literary magazines such as Brevity, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, In Short, and... Read More →
Friday April 10, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Church of the Mountains
  Memoir
 
Saturday, April 11
 

12:00pm PDT

Welcome Reception & Opening
Saturday April 11, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
Truckee Artist Lofts, 9848 Gallery
Join the opening welcome and reception for the 2026 Truckee Literary Crawl and meet event organizers, presenting authors and fellow attendees. 
Saturday April 11, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
Truckee Artist Lofts, 9848 Gallery 9848 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA, USA

1:00pm PDT

Children's Book - Emanuel Rose, Ashleigh Goodwin and Connor Fogal
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Truckee Artist Lofts, 9848 Gallery
Emanuel Rose reads from Summer’s Magical Night, a charming tale set in the enchanting Weneha Forest, focusing on a unique and adventurous fox named Summer.

Conner Can You Can, Too is a book by Ashley Goodwin and Fogal Connor that tells the inspiring story of Connor, a young man living with cerebral palsy.
Authors
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Emanuel Rose

Emanuel Rose is an author, outdoorsman, and marketing strategist with over 30 years of experience helping businesses grow with clarity and purpose. His deep connection to nature—forests, trails, and the ocean—shapes both his life and his work through the podcast Nature Bound... Read More →
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Ashleigh Goodwin

Ashleigh Goodwin is an author, advocate, educator, and mother of two who believes every child has a story worth celebrating. Connor Can, You Can Too is her heartfelt tribute to courage, inclusion, and the power of never giving up, inspired by real-life hero Connor Fogal—a young... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Truckee Artist Lofts, 9848 Gallery 9848 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA, USA
  Children's Books

1:00pm PDT

Fiction - Kim Culbertson, Elizabeth Reed Aden and Meredith Stisser
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Church of the Mountains
Set during the 2022-23 school year, Other People's Kids (Sibylline Press 2025) by Kim Culbertson shares the complicated lives of three teachers, each at a crossroads.Elizabeth Reed Aden reads from The Goldilocks Genome--A Medical Thriller. "Your genes determine whether your antidepressant heals you or harms you — and someone’s figured out how to use this information to kill...
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Authors
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Elizabeth Reed Aden

Elizabeth Aden spent numerous summers hiking and horseback riding in the Tahoe Sierra including the Tevis Trail. She has a doctorate in biomedical anthropology and spent her career in pharma and biotech companies. She believes that fiction is the best way to learn about the science... Read More →
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Kim Culbertson

Kim is the award-winning author of five YA novels with Sourcebooks and Scholastic. Her first novel for adults Other People’s Kids (Sibylline 2025) was named a finalist for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA) 2025 Golden Poppy Award in fiction. In addition to... Read More →
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Meredith Stisser

Meredith Stisser is a multidisciplinary artist. Educated in Boston, based in Truckee, CA, she spends her days arranging shells into very important patterns.
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Church of the Mountains
  Fiction

1:00pm PDT

Non-fiction - Kim Bateman, Gabrielle Myers and Kayla Anderson
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery
Kim Bateman reads from Dying in Color  (Chiron Publications) and a passage that describes people at the end of life using creative imagination to visualize an afterlife.

Gabrielle shares from her farm-to-fork column published by Inside Sacramento.

Kayla Anderson reads from Best of California State Parks – Top 50 Parks In The Golden State, to be published in March 2026.
Authors
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Kayla Anderson

As a fulltime independent journalist since 2015, Kayla Anderson has written for local and regional publications all over the Northern California region and regularly contributes to the Tahoe Quarterly, Tahoe magazine, Sierra Nevada Ally, and Enjoy magazine. In 2018, she started writing... Read More →
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Kim Bateman

Kim Bateman, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist, Storyteller, Communication Specialist, Psychology Educator, End-of-Life Doula, and M.A.P.S. trained psychedelic assisted therapist. She facilitates leadership workshops for executives, including How to be more Comfortable in Uncomfortable... Read More →
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Gabrielle Myers

Gabrielle wrote Hive-Mind, a memoir, and the poetry books Too Many Seeds (2021), Break Self: Feed (2024), Points in the Network (2025), and the forthcoming Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life and La Ruta es Clara (2026). Her publications include work in the Atlanta Review, Evergreen... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery 10104 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Non-fiction

1:00pm PDT

Poetry - Elisa Garcia, Melanie Perish and Karen Terrey
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Piper J Gallery
To be released in 2026 Elisa Garcia reads from Blackout and her healing journey with alcoholism.  

Melanie Perish reads from her poem Apparition at the Edge of the World, a poignant piece that captures the essence of sorrow and the passage of time, published in Rust & Moth, Spring, 2025.

Karen Terrey shares new poems published in various literary journals and anthologies in the past year.
Authors
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Karen Terrey

Karen Terrey serves as Poet Laureate for Nevada County, CA. She's an editor and writing coach, offering creative writing workshops online and in Truckee through her business Tangled Roots Writing. Her award-winning poems have appeared in anthologies and journals, including Rhino... Read More →
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Melanie Perish

Melanie Perish is a gender fluid crone who’s interested in poetry. Her work has appeared in Sequestrum, Rust & Moth, West Trestle Review, Persimmon Tree, Ravens Perch, The Meadow, and other small press publications. Her poems were featured on Nevada Humanities Double Down Blog... Read More →
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Elisa Garcia

Elisa Garcia is a Mexican-American writer and spoken word artist whose voice was born in Los Angeles and has been shaping the Reno poetry scene since 2009. She is the current City of Reno Poet Laureate and a proud member of the Spoken Views Collective. Elisa has guided young poets... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Piper J Gallery 10250 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Poetry

1:00pm PDT

Poetry - Samantha Pfisterer and Teri Ketchie
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Gallery 5830

Samantha Pfisterer shares poems from her anthology: Before I Knew Better (and other Poems of Becoming) to be published April 17, 2026.

Teri Ketchie Nephew reads Where is Rock Bottom? published in the anthology, Women in a Golden State, Gunpowder Press, summer 2025
Authors
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Samantha Pfisterer

Samantha Jo Pfisterer is a Nevada-based poet and storyteller drawn to themes of becoming, resilience, and love in all its forms. Her debut anthology, Before I Knew Better (and Other Poems of Becoming), explores growth through heartbreak, healing, and self-discovery. When she isn’t... Read More →
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Teri Ketchie

Former bilingual teacher and mentor in Watsonville, California, Teri writes poetry and volunteers as a docent at a local wetland. Her poems weave together themes of nature, travel and family. She was a featured reader at the 2024 and 2025 Santa Cruz Celebration of the Muse and has... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Gallery 5830 10060 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA, USA
  Poetry

1:00pm PDT

Science Fiction/Literary Fiction - Scott T. Miller, Kyle Winters and Brandon Evans
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Moody's Bistro Bar & Beats
Listen to Scott T. Miller and the introduction to The Below, a daring SciFi debut novel. "An investigator faces personal demons when his work takes him into dystopian subterranean slums... A compelling dystopian detective story with a unique setting that keeps its secrets close to the vest." — KIRKUS REVIEWS.Kyle Winters reads from either his novella, No Home Beyond the Way, or his short story,...
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Authors
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Brandon Evans

Brandon Evans is a writer and speaker who lives in Reno, NV. His debut novel, The Parable of the Road, is available on all online retailers. Connect with him at [email protected].
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Kyle Winters

Kyle Winters is an author and game designer focused on the intersection of sci-fi, mystery, and the constant white-hot static of modern life. His career began with comic book publishing and then took a decade-long detour into the wide world of marketing. This was a mistake. His recent... Read More →
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Scott T. Miller

Science Fiction Author
Scott T. Miller is an author, researcher, and educator. He received his PhD in Global and International Education from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and recently moved from Oahu to California to work in education. Scott adores science fiction and at every opportunity is writing... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Moody's Bistro Bar & Beats 10007 Bridge St, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Science Fiction/Literary Fiction

2:00pm PDT

Fiction - Ben Rogers, J.A. Forde and Marisa Atha
Saturday April 11, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
Church of the Mountains
Ben Rogers reads from The Daughters, published by UN Press in November, 2025. Renowned―albeit washed-up―author Peter Zemeckis (“Z”) is relishing the sunset of a life spent single when Dr. Nancy Chu crash-lands in the bungalow next door. As Nancy’s family drags him into deeper water, Z must rethink the ending to his own story.J.A. Forde shares an excerpt from her book On The Ferry to...
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Ben Rogers

Ben Rogers is the author of the novels The Daughters, The Flamer, and The Heavy Side, as well as the short story collection The Mayfly. He lives in Reno with his family.
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Marisa Atha

Marisa Gray Atha is a writer and teacher. With degrees in English, Music, and Psychology, Marisa continues to express her lifelong curiosity about inspiration, art, narrative, and the thread that connects people to one another. An avid blogger and guest contributor, her work can be... Read More →
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J.A. Forde

J.A. Forde is a romance writer, Navy wife, and full-time mom to two crazy kids (and a furry pup). She currently resides in Nevada with her family where you’ll most likely find her with her nose stuck in a book… or more realistically chasing her two kids with an audiobook in her... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
Church of the Mountains
  Fiction

2:00pm PDT

Fiction-Mystery/Thriller: Alex Hoeft, Anne Merino, Brooke L. French , Jeffrey Vernon Matucha
Saturday April 11, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery
Alex Hoeft shares with readers a passage from her short story, The Arrow, published as part of Dark Matter Ink's Little Red Flags: Stories of Cults, Cons, and Control on Feb. 17, 2026.Anne Merino shares the opening chapter of Palliser Park published in June, 2025. A glittering estate. A deadly fall. In 1919, Simon and Alice Fairlight uncover dangerous secrets hidden behind Palliser Park's dazzling...
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Jeffrey Vernon Matucha

Jeffrey is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. He was born and raised in this region, unlike most other citizens of the Bay Area who are from another state or another country.He is a veteran of the punk/metal/new wave/oh-my-God-what-did-we-do-last-night club scenes of the San... Read More →
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Brooke L. French

Brooke L. French is a recovering lawyer turned writer who lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. She is the author of Inhuman Acts (2022), The Carolina Variant (2023), and Unnatural Intent (2024). Brooke spends her days gleefully writing about fatal viruses, terrorism, and murder... Read More →
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Anne Merino

Anne Merino is a traditionally published author of the critically acclaimed paranormal mystery novel, Hawkesmoor. She has also published serious theatre criticism for Salem Press and has had three plays produced in Los Angeles including award winning The Moon Goddess about a young... Read More →
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Alex Hoeft

Alex Hoeft works as a news reporter for Moonshine Ink, covering the Truckee/North Tahoe region in California and Nevada. She has both her bachelor's and Master's in journalism and her reporting has appeared in The New York Times. Her short story fiction work has been published in... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery 10104 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Fiction

2:00pm PDT

Memoir - Linda Gonzalez, Marianna Marlowe and Marianne Porter
Saturday April 11, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
Uncorked Truckee
Linda Gonzalez reads Double Vision, Real and Visceral, published in 2025 in her essay collection: Rest Like a Giant Tree, Be Happy in the Midst of So Much.Marianna Marlowe will be reading an excerpt from her book, Portrait of a Mestiza: A Memoir in Essays, which will be published in May, 2026 with She Writes Press. Marianne Porter will be reading an excerpt from her prologue to her soon to be...
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Authors
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Marianne Porter

In 2014, Marianne Porter earned an MFA in Creative Writing, University of Nevada, Lake Tahoe (formerly Sierra Nevada University). She is working on her bildungsroman travel memoir titled ADRIFT ACROSS EUROPE, 1973-’74. Pure Slush Book’s Lifespan anthology accepted her poem on... Read More →
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Marianna Marlowe

Marianna Marlowe is a Latina writer who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. After devoting years to academic writing, her focus now is creative nonfiction that explores issues of gender identity, feminism, cultural hybridity, intersectionality, and more. Her short memoir has been... Read More →
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Linda González

Linda González (she/ella) is the author of four non-fiction books and has published many essays. Her most recent essay collection is Rest Like a Giant Tree: Be Happy in the Midst of So Much. She has served as a judge for the Latino Books awards, and is a contributing editor for aaduna... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
Uncorked Truckee 10118 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Memoir

2:00pm PDT

Non-fiction/Personal Growth - Dr. Deb Miller and Dr. Natasha Lukasiewich
Saturday April 11, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
Truckee Artist Lofts, 9848 Gallery
Dr. Deb Miller reads Forget the Fairy Tale and Find Your Happiness, published June, 2025 and distributed by Simon & Schuster.

Dr. Natasha Lukasiewich shares an excerpt from her published book from January 2026 called Survive, Thrive, Lead: Building Gritsilience In High Stakes Professions.
Authors
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Dr. Natasha Lukasiewich

Dr. Natasha Lukasiewich, DNP, MSN, MBA, LNC, RN is a nationally recognized nursing executive, resilience strategist, and author with over 20 years of experience in high-stakes healthcare and emergency services leadership. She is the CEO and Founder of Peak Resilience Partners, LLC... Read More →
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Dr. Deb Miller

Dr. Deb Miller is a former vice president for several Fortune 500 companies, a job that gave her fantastic opportunities from rappelling the Great Wall of China to riding elephants in India. These days, she’s a part-time marketing professor for her alma mater, Purdue University... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
Truckee Artist Lofts, 9848 Gallery 9848 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA, USA
  Non-fiction

3:00pm PDT

Fiction/Literary Fiction - Michael Thériault, AnnElise Hatjakes and Elizabeth A. Tucker
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Piper J Gallery
Featured in the literary magazine drip, Michael Thériault reads "And So a Terror," where on a predawn run, a man encounters something that makes him reconsider his intention to father a child.AnnElise Hatjakes shares from her forthcoming collection Andromeda, soon to be published by University of Nevada Press. In "Andromeda," a college student's visit to a brothel spurs her sexual...
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Elizabeth A. Tucker

Elizabeth A. Tucker is a fiction writer, poet, playwright, and sixth-generation Californian, living and writing at 6,600 feet above sea level in the Sierra Nevada. Her award-winning debut novel The Pale Flesh of Wood published in 2025 was listed as one of the 30 Most Powerful Books... Read More →
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AnnElise Hatjakes

AnnElise Hatjakes is a writer and professor living in Reno, Nevada. Her debut story collection, Matter Out of Place (University of Nevada Press, 2026), explores the relationship between place and identity through the stories of a grieving ghost hunter, an accidental wildfire starter... Read More →
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Michael Thériault

Michael Thériault has been an Ironworker, union organizer, and union representative at various levels. He published fiction in his twenties, six stories in literary magazines, but abandoned it for decades to support first a family, then a movement. In his recent return, since 2022... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Piper J Gallery 10250 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Fiction

3:00pm PDT

Memoir - Gemma Hartley, Matt Fogelson, and Priya Hutner
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Church of the Mountains
Gemma Hartley reads an excerpt from her next book "No One Loves an Angry Woman: on Faith, Culture, and Feminine Rage" (Beacon Press, Sept 22, 2026).Priya Hutner reads from her debut memoir, Chasing Nirvana: A Seeker’s Story of Love, Loss, and Liberation, about growing up in cult-like spiritual community published March, 2026.Matt Fogelson reads a passage from his debut memoir, Restrung:...
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Matt Fogelson

Matt Fogelson is a writer whose true passion is music, primarily of the classic rock variety. His Substack, Fine Tuning, blends personal storytelling with a love for the music that makes sense of life, centering on new artists and the intersection of music and parenting. His work... Read More →
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Priya Hutner

Co-Founder, Programming Director, Tahoe Literary Festival
Priya Hutner is a writer and co-founder of the Tahoe Literary Festival and the Truckee Literary Crawl. Her work has been featured in the Tahoe Guide, Moonshine Ink, Muse Magazine, and TahoeCom. She writes about the arts, entertainment, culture, culinary trends, and reviews books... Read More →
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Gemma Hartley

Gemma Hartley is a freelance journalist, writing coach, and author of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward and the forthcoming No One Loves An Angry Woman. She has spoken on the topic of emotional labor and the mental load around the world, from corporate conferences... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Church of the Mountains
  Memoir

3:00pm PDT

Non-fiction/Essay - Tamera Buzick, Michelle Wood and Michael Murray
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Moody's Bistro Bar & Beats
Tamera Buzick shares a passage from Bowers Mansion - The Legacy of a Comstock Family   Published March 2026 by University Nevada Press, which covers Nevada history from the birth of Eilley Oram Bowers in 1826 to the mansion's restoration in 1968.

Michelle Wood reads from her humorist essay, The Second Time I Peed My Pants.

Michael Murray shares from Writing Naked. 
Authors
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Michael Murray

Michael Murray received his MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Portland State University in 2017, he published "Writing Naked" in 2018. He currently lives in Truckee as a private chef and owner of "Hen of the Woods."
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Michelle Wood

Michelle Wood is a Northern California artist and author who writes humorist essays, non-fiction, and children’s books. Her work blends curiosity, wit, and heart, inviting readers to laugh, reflect, and see the world a little differently. Whether she’s exploring everyday absurdities... Read More →
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Tamera Buzick

Tamera J. Buzick is the Bowers Mansion curator. While teaching at Hug High School, she worked closely with Betty Hood, former Bowers Mansion curator, as the historical researcher and traveled extensively in search of new information about the Bowers family. She is a graduate of the... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Moody's Bistro Bar & Beats 10007 Bridge St, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Non-fiction

3:00pm PDT

Poetry - Aimee Lowenstern, Teresa Breeden and Elisa Carlsen
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery
Aimee Lowenstern shares For Ornithologists, Phlebotomists, Geneticists, and Poets recently published in Black Fox Literary Magazine.Teresa Breeden reads from her poetry book, Handling Shadows, published in the Fall of 2025, which blends a tasty dollop of irony with a rich awareness of our shared vulnerabilities.Elisa Carlsen shares poetry recently published in Scapegoat Review and carte blanche....
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Teresa Breeden

Teresa earned her English degree from Loyal Marymount University and is a NV Arts Council Fellowship winner. She has one published novel (Falling by Tori Briar) and one book of poetry, Handling Shadows. Aware that words can both create and destroy, Teresa uses her words as a means... Read More →
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Aimee Lowenstern

Aimee Lowenstern (she/her) is a twenty seven year old poet living in Tahoe. She has cerebral palsy, a pulse, and a pen. Her work can be found in several literary journals, including Thread Lit, Fifth Wheel Press, and Black Fox Literary Magazine.
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Elisa Carlsen

Elisa Carlsen was born and raised in the high desert of Northern Nevada. A contemplative poet and artist, her writing has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Scapegoat Review, Carte Blanche, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere. Elisa’s poetry has won awards from the Writers Guild of Astoria and... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery 10104 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Poetry

3:00pm PDT

Poetry - Jesse James Ziegler, Aimee Lowenstern, Elisa Carlsen, Teresa Breeden and Alexis Cota
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery
Alexis Cota, a Truckee High School student, shares original poetryAimee Lowenstern shares For Ornithologists, Phlebotomists, Geneticists, and Poets recently published in Black Fox Literary Magazine.Teresa Breeden reads from her poetry book, Handling Shadows, published in the Fall of 2025, which blends a tasty dollop of irony with a rich awareness of our shared vulnerabilities.Elisa Carlsen shares...
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Elisa Carlsen

Elisa Carlsen was born and raised in the high desert of Northern Nevada. A contemplative poet and artist, her writing has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Scapegoat Review, Carte Blanche, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere. Elisa’s poetry has won awards from the Writers Guild of Astoria and... Read More →
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Teresa Breeden

Teresa earned her English degree from Loyal Marymount University and is a NV Arts Council Fellowship winner. She has one published novel (Falling by Tori Briar) and one book of poetry, Handling Shadows. Aware that words can both create and destroy, Teresa uses her words as a means... Read More →
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Aimee Lowenstern

Aimee Lowenstern (she/her) is a twenty seven year old poet living in Tahoe. She has cerebral palsy, a pulse, and a pen. Her work can be found in several literary journals, including Thread Lit, Fifth Wheel Press, and Black Fox Literary Magazine.
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Jesse James Ziegler

Jesse James Ziegler is Poet Laureate Emeritus for the City of Reno (5th-Jan/24-Dec/25). He is the Vice President of Spoken Views Collective, the Creative Director for Monday Night Poetry (Voted 2024 & 2025 Best Open Mic - Reno News & Review), True Colors Poetry and Collective Breath... Read More →
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Alexis Cota

Alexis Cota is a Finalist for the Nevada County Poetry Out Loud championship for 2026 and an Intern for the Truckee Cultural District. He is a member of the school’s Poetry and Prose Club.
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J.Macon King

J.MACON KING is a novelist, award-winning poet, writer, interview journalist and publisher of the Mill Valley Literary Review, which San Francisco Magazine touted "…drags the literary journal kicking and screaming into the 21st century." His debut novelized-memoir, Circus of the... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery 10104 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Poetry

4:00pm PDT

Memoir - Becky Jensen, Blair Glaser and Elizabeth Reed Aden
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Church of the Mountains
Becky Jensen shares the Prologue of her memoir No Man's Land, published in September 2025, which drops listeners into the wilderness backcountry with her as she hikes the 500-mile Colorado Trail.Blair Glaser reads from This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near Cult Experience (Heliotrope Books; Feb. 2026).Elizabeth Reed Aden reads from her memoir, Mud, Microbes & Medicine which will be...
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Becky Jensen

Becky Jensen is an author and freelance writer who lives and works in a little cabin on a wild river in northern Colorado. Her debut memoir No Man’s Land: Unpacking One Woman’s Worth on the Colorado Trail was named to Colorado Public Radio’s “Books We Love” list for 202... Read More →
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Elizabeth Reed Aden

Elizabeth Aden spent numerous summers hiking and horseback riding in the Tahoe Sierra including the Tevis Trail. She has a doctorate in biomedical anthropology and spent her career in pharma and biotech companies. She believes that fiction is the best way to learn about the science... Read More →
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Blair Glaser

Blair Glaser is a writer and leadership consultant whose essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Provoked Magazine, Longreads, Oldster, Quartz, HuffPost, Inside Higher Ed, and others, as well as in literary magazines such as Brevity, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, In Short, and... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Church of the Mountains
  Memoir

4:00pm PDT

Non-fiction/Memoir - Dillon Osleger, David Pritchett and Susan Norman
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Piper J Gallery
Dillon Osleger reads from Trail Work: Restoring the Paths and Stories of America’s Public Lands to be published by Heyday on May 12, 2026, where he shares a philosophical look into recreational land ethic.David Pritchett reads from Mossback: Ecology, Emancipation, and Foraging for Hope in Painful Places, his debut essay collection exploring landscapes and mythologies at the intersection of...
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Susan Norman

Susan Norman is the author of Risk, a memoir about extreme whitewater competition and extreme parenting. She began writing soon after retiring from a hydrology career with the US Forest Service and becoming guardian of her young nephew. A former National and World Champion in both... Read More →
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David Pritchett

David Pritchett has a diploma in Mountain Medicine from University of New Mexico, and has climbed many mountains in North America, as well as the 19,000 foot peaks of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Cotopaxi in Ecuador. He is a wildlife tracker certified in North America by Cybertracker... Read More →
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Dillon Osleger

Dillon Osleger is an athlete, environmental advocate and scientist driving the outdoor communities’ narrative on climate, conservation and access. His debut novel has received early praise from Bill McKibben, Jason Roberts, and Rick Ridgeway amongst others. His writing has appeared... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Piper J Gallery 10250 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Non-fiction

4:00pm PDT

Poetry - Elisa Garcia. J. C. Olander and Jesse James Ziegler
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery
Elisa Garcia is the current City of Reno Poet Laureate and a proud member of the Spoken Views Collective. Through her poetry, she delves into family, identity, and the tender journey of self-acceptance - using her words as both resistance and a path to healing. Published in the anthology "Voices" by Cold River Press in 2025, J.C. Olander reads To the Earth, a poem honoring the Earth: its...
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Elisa Garcia

Elisa Garcia is a Mexican-American writer and spoken word artist whose voice was born in Los Angeles and has been shaping the Reno poetry scene since 2009. She is the current City of Reno Poet Laureate and a proud member of the Spoken Views Collective. Elisa has guided young poets... Read More →
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Jesse James Ziegler

Jesse James Ziegler is Poet Laureate Emeritus for the City of Reno (5th-Jan/24-Dec/25). He is the Vice President of Spoken Views Collective, the Creative Director for Monday Night Poetry (Voted 2024 & 2025 Best Open Mic - Reno News & Review), True Colors Poetry and Collective Breath... Read More →
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J. C. Olander

J. C. Olander, an innovator of spoken work poetry arising from land based ethics rooted in science, observation, and reflection. He explores mystical revelations and all that is possible in being here now. What we make of life is what we get. Olander creates musical image phrasing... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery 10104 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Poetry

4:00pm PDT

Poetry - Jillian Makoutz, Teresa Breeden, and Nisha Srinivasa
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Gallery 5830
Jillian Makoutz reads A Poem About Spring to be published in 2026 about embracing the beauty of the moment in the midst of the chaos of an unpredictable world.Nisha Srinivasa shares a selection of poems from her book, The Synesthete's Rainbow, officially releasing April 28th, 2026.Teresa Breeden will read poetry from her latest book., Handling Shadows, published in the Fall of 2025, which blends a...
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Teresa Breeden

Teresa earned her English degree from Loyal Marymount University and is a NV Arts Council Fellowship winner. She has one published novel (Falling by Tori Briar) and one book of poetry, Handling Shadows. Aware that words can both create and destroy, Teresa uses her words as a means... Read More →
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Jillian Makoutz

Jillian Makoutz, author of Four Seasons in the Sierra, lives in Sierraville with her husband, three children, two cats and lots of chickens. Jillian loves writing poetry while in nature, but her love for language has taken her many places, including teaching English overseas in Croatia... Read More →
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Nisha Srinivasa

Nisha Srinivasa is a writer, educator, and lover of the arts. Writing has always been her medium of self-expression, a way to explore and articulate the complexities of love, identity, and transformation. Beyond her own creative work, she is passionate about helping others— especially... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Gallery 5830 10060 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA, USA
  Poetry

4:00pm PDT

Young Adult/Fantasy - Jarret Keene, Richard H. Moon and Terri Farley
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Truckee Artist Lofts, 9848 Gallery
Jarret Keene reads from his upcoming dark superhero-horror fantasy Breakers Book One: Splitlight Legion (Dark Wolf Books, 2026): When a secret Area 51 experiment resurrects a nuclear-powered revenant who begins feeding his way through 1980s Las Vegas, a volatile team of superpowered young operatives—led by a haunted empath who fears them as much as the monster—must stop the apocalypse before...
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Richard H Moon

Richard H Moon is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, family man, care-provider for several dogs and cats, a curler, archer, hiker, musician, physics tutor, SFF nerd, literature aficionado, history obsessive, and kitten fosterer. He has a physics degree, but has never let that... Read More →
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Terri Farley

Terri Farley taught high school English and journalism in inner-city Los Angeles before moving to the cowgirl state of Nevada. There, she wrote the best-selling PHANTOM STALLION series and 2026 PHANTOM’S FAMILY picture books (both from Simon & Schuster). Terri is an advocate for... Read More →
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Jarret Keene

Jarret Keene is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches fiction writing, American literature, and graphic novel history. He serves as series editor for Las Vegas Writes (Nevada Humanities/Huntington Press). His books include the dystopian... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Truckee Artist Lofts, 9848 Gallery 9848 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA, USA
  Young Adult

5:30pm PDT

Community Open Mic - Sign Ups
Saturday April 11, 2026 5:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
Alibi Ale Works - Truckee Public House
Enjoy music by local band Winter Grain Sicely and Kate Anderson at 5:30 p.m.
Get on the open-mic list! Sign up in person to share your original poetry, prose or singing/songwriting. Performances are limited to three minutes. 
Saturday April 11, 2026 5:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
Alibi Ale Works - Truckee Public House 10069 Bridge St, Truckee, CA 96161, USA

6:00pm PDT

Community Open Mic Night
Saturday April 11, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Alibi Ale Works - Truckee Public House
Join us for a vibrant and energetic literary open mic and hear original poetry, prose, spoken word and singer/songwriters of all ages - many sharing their work for the first time. 

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Karen Terrey

Karen Terrey serves as Poet Laureate for Nevada County, CA. She's an editor and writing coach, offering creative writing workshops online and in Truckee through her business Tangled Roots Writing. Her award-winning poems have appeared in anthologies and journals, including Rhino... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Alibi Ale Works - Truckee Public House 10069 Bridge St, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
 

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