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Saturday, April 11
 

1:00pm PDT

Fiction - Kim Culbertson, Elizabeth Reed Aden and Meredith Stisser
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
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 you."

Meredith Stisser shares an excerpt from The Perfect Way to Live, to be published June 2026 which follows a chance encounter at an art gallery that leads into a polyamorous relationship between a married man and a woman half his age.
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

2:00pm PDT

Fiction - Ben Rogers, J.A. Forde and Marisa Atha
Saturday April 11, 2026 2:00pm - 2:45pm PDT
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 Skye, which is book three in her Love Along the Way series. It showcases the resilience of young love, the strength of old love, and how true love always finds a way—so long as you’re willing to work for it.

Marisa Atha shares from her novel Written on the Wall, which follows the the intertwined lives of four women. A compelling exploration of the ties that bind us and the choices that define us.
Authors
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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

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
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 façade.

Brook L. French Brooke is an author of three best-selling thrillers, The Carolina Variant, Inhuman Acts, and Unnatural Intent. Brook reads from Unnatural Intent, which was published in October of 2024.

Jeffrey Vernon Matucha, a well-established author of the Bay Area’s punk rock scene in the 90’s shares a short story of The Closet.  Celebrated punk singer Gail Burp looks through her closet, trying to decide what to wear to visit her late friend, when all the memories come flooding in.
Authors
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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

3:00pm PDT

Fiction/Literary Fiction - Michael Thériault, AnnElise Hatjakes and Elizabeth A. Tucker
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
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 awakening.

Elizabeth Tucker reads an excerpt from her novel The Pale Flesh of Wood, published by She Writes Press, February 2025.
Authors
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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
 
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