Renowned authors Rowan Jacobsen and Ginger Strand will be holding a reading on Sterling College’s campus, as part of the “Writing in Place” summer writers’ workshop. The reading will be on Tuesday, June 17, at 7:00 p.m. in Houston House. This reading is free and open to the public. (Please note: it is Tuesday night, not Wednesday night, as previously reported.)

Rowan Jacobsen is the author of A Geography of Oysters, Fruitless Fall, The Living Shore, American Terroir, and Shadows on the Gulf. He has written for the New York Times, Harper’s, Outside, Mother Jones, Orion, and others, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best Food Writing collections.

Ginger Strand is the author of three books: Flight, a novel; Inventing Niagra, the untold story of America’s waterfall, and Killer on the Road, a history of the interstate highway system told through the stories of the killers who have haunted it. She has published essays and fiction in Harper’s, The Believer, The Iowa Review, The New England Review and the New York Times, as well as This Land and Orion, where she is a contributing editor.

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