Red Barn Event: "Coiled" Book Launch

Coiled Book Launch with Ana Maria Spagna Livestream the event or watch it later on YouTube at this link. No registration required, but RSVP to receive email reminders and updates about this event!

Doors to the Red Barn open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer and wine available for purchase. The presentation will start at 7:00pm.

About the presentation

Local author Ana Maria Spagna returns to the Red Barn to launch her brand new book, Coiled: Essays on Urgency and Kinship. “Ana Maria Spagna has written more than a book," writes poet CMarie Fuhrman, "this is a compass for our disorienting times. With the eye of a naturalist and soul of a poet, Spagna leads us through landscapes of grief, political turmoil, and ecological wonder, ultimately leading us to what really matters: kinship.

Whether witnessing the release of a wild fisher or navigating difficult waters of loss, Spagna writes with the kind of vulnerability that at once wrecks and heals. This collection is a howl. It is a prayer. Coiled is a warm hand on the shoulder reminding us that even on the ‘hairline fringe’ we are never alone.”

About Ana

Maria Ana Maria Spagna is a long-time resident of the North Cascades whose writing explores the intersections of nature, community, queerness, and social justice in the American West. She is the author of ten books, most recently, Coiled: Essays on Urgency and Kinship. Her work has been recognized by the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Washington State Book Awards, Nautilus Book Awards, and the Society of Environmental Journalists. She teaches at Wenatchee Valley College and in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University. She lives with her wife, Laurie, and cat, Maybelle, in Stehekin.