Friday, April 8 at 7pm PT

Join Kati alongside authors Daisy Pitkin Buchanan and Tom Zoellner for the Northern Arizona Book Festival featured Nonfiction Reading, hosted virtually. Order our books from Bright Side Bookshop, the official bookseller of the festival.

ZOOM INFORMATION: Meeting ID: 841 3420 9392 Password: NOAZBF22

Daisy Pitkin has spent more than twenty years as a community and union organizer, working first in support of garment workers around the world, and then for US labor unions organizing industrial laundry workers. Her essays have been awarded the Montana Prize, the Disquiet Literary Prize, the New Millennium Award, and the Monique Wittig Writer’s Fellowship. She grew up in rural Ohio and holds an MFA from the University of Arizona. Today, Pitkin lives and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she works as an organizer with Workers United, an offshoot of the union UNITE.

Katherine Standefer’s debut book Lightning Flowers was a Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and the Arizona/New Mexico Book Award in Memoir. It was also selected as a New York Times Book Review Staff Pick, shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and featured on NPR’s Fresh Air. Standefer was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good and earned her MFA at the University of Arizona. Her previous writing appeared in Best American Essays 2016. She lives on a mesa in New Mexico with her chickens.

Tom Zoellner is the author of eight nonfiction books, including The National Road and Island on Fire, which won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A fifth generation Arizonan, he teaches at Chapman University and Dartmouth College.