Meet author Jackson Ellis, the 2017 Howard Frank Mosher First Book Award Winner, at Jeudevine Library on Wed. June 27 at 7 PM. The Greenwriters Press of Brattleboro, VT gave Mosher award to Ellis's book Lords of ST Thomas. The novel is set in the 1930s, during construction of the Hoover Dam, when the U.S. government began buying out the residents of St. Thomas, Nevada. Yet the hardheaded Henry Lord, believing the waters of the newly created Lake Mead would never reach his home, refused to sell or vacate his property. It was a mistake that would cost him dearly.

Ellis will read from the book and share photos and maps of ST Thomas and the region around it. Howard Mosher writes of the book, "Jackson Ellis's Lords of St. Thomas is the dramatic story of the beleaguered Lord family, forced off their land by the creation of Lake Mead. At the heart of the book are the patriarch Henry Lord, who refuses to leave his doomed home and town, and his young grandson and namesake. Lords of St. Thomas is both a terrific coming-of-age story and an exact and haunting evocation of a bygone time and place. What's more, it's a great read. I loved every page."

Jackson Ellis is an author and editor from Vermont, brought up in the Ludlow/Plymouth area and now living in Burlington. His short fiction has previously appeared in The Vermont Literary Review, Sheepshead Review, The Birmingham Arts Journal, Broken Pencil, East Coast Literary Review, Midwest Literary Magazine, and The Journal of Microliterature.

There will be refreshments and discussion with the author. For more information call the Jeudevine Library at 472-5948.