Come see us at Booth #419!
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TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
We'll be at Tucson Festival of Books from 10am-5:30pm on Saturday and Sunday. Stop by to hang out with the Torrey House Press crew: Co-Executive Directors Kirsten Johanna Allen and Will Neville-Rehbehn, Jonathan T. Bailey, R.E. Burrillo, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Betsy Gaines Quammen, David Gessner, and Scott Graham. We'll have plenty of books and excellent company!
Saturday, March 9
1-2pm | Author Signing: Jonathan T. Bailey, author of When I Was Red Clay
2-3pm | Author Signing: Scott Graham, author of Saguaro Sanction, National Park Mystery Series
3-4pm | Author Signing: R.E. Burrillo, author of Behind the Bears Ears, The Backwoods of Everywhere
Sunday, March 10
11am-12pm | Author Signing: Scott Graham, author of Saguaro Sanction, National Park Mystery Series
2-3pm | Author Signing: Jonathan T. Bailey, author of When I Was Red Clay
3-4pm | Author Signing: R.E. Burrillo, author of Behind the Bears Ears, The Backwoods of Everywhere
AUTHOR PANELS
Saturday, March 9
1-2pm | UA Library/Special Collections | Betsy Gaines Quammen with Will Grant and Melissa Sevigny, "Western Vistas"
2:30-3:30pm | WNPA Stage at the University of Arizona | David Gessner with Ben Goldfarb and David Lipsky, "The Road to Resilience"
2:30-3:30pm | UA Library/Special Collections | Celebrating "Southwest Books of the Year" with Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, Brendan Shay Basha, Tod Goldberg, and Manuel Muñoz
4-5pm | Arizona Daily Star Stage | Betsy Gaines Quammen, "Western History is Hit and Myth"
Sunday, March 10
10-11am | UA Library/Special Collections | Betsy Gaines Quammen with David Quammen, "Quammens in Conversation"
10-11am | Integrated Learning Center Room 130 | Stacie Shannon Denetsosie with Sarah Tomlinson, Jennifer Croft, Ashley Elston, "First Draft"
10-11am | Main Stage | David Gessner with Ben Goldfarb, "Our Changing World"
2:30-3:30pm | WNPA Stage | Betsy Gaines Quammen with Sara Dant, "Redefining the American West"
4-5PM | U Nuestras Raíces Stage| Stacie Shannon Denetsosie with Brendan Shay, "Diné Literary Debuts"
JONATHAN T. BAILEY | When I Was Red Clay
JONATHAN T. BAILEY is a conservation photographer with a background in cultural resources. Author of the literary memoir When I Was Red Clay: A Journey of Identity, Healing, and Wonder and the photograph and essay collection Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape, his work has been published in Archaeology Southwest, the Salt Lake Tribune, Indian Country Today, and elsewhere. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
R. E. BURRILLO | Behind the Bears Ears | The Backwoods of Everywhere
R. E. BURRILLO is an archaeologist and conservation advocate. His book Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape won the ForeWord INDIES Editor's Choice Prize in Nonfiction. He is also author of The Backwoods of Everywhere: Words From a Wandering Local. Burrillo's writing has appeared in Archaeology Southwest, Colorado Plateau Advocate, the Salt Lake Tribune, and elsewhere. He currently lives in southern Arizona, where he works as a project manager for PaleoWest.
STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE | The Missing Morningstar
STACIE SHANNON DENETSOSIE is a citizen of the Navajo Nation her clans are Todích'íí'nii (Bitterwater Clan), born for Naakaii (Mexican Clan). She is from Kayenta, Arizona but currently resides in Northern Utah. She is a recipient of the UCROSS Native American Fellowship. Stacie graduated with her MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2021. Her work has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Phoebe Magazine, and Cut Bank. Her debut short story collection, The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories received a Kirkus Star, and she is also a contributor to the Torrey House Press anthology Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild.
BETSY GAINES QUAMMEN | True West | American Zion
Historian and writer BETSY GAINES QUAMMEN examines the intersections of extremism, public lands, wildlife, and western communities. She received a PhD in History from Montana State University, a MS in Environmental Studies from University of Montana, and a BA in English from Colorado College. Gaines Quammen is the author of True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America and American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West. She lives in Bozeman, Montana, with her spouse, writer David Quammen.
DAVID GESSNER | A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World | Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight
DAVID GESSNER is the author of A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World, Quiet Desperation Savage Delight, Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness and the New York Times-bestselling All the Wild That Remains. Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and founder and editor-in-chief of Ecotone, Gessner lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife, the novelist Nina de Gramont, and their daughter, Hadley.
SCOTT GRAHAM | Saguaro Sanction | The National Park Mystery Series
SCOTT GRAHAM is the author of the acclaimed National Park Mystery series, featuring archaeologist Chuck Bender and Chuck’s spouse, Janelle Ortega. In addition to the National Park Mystery series, Scott is the author of five nonfiction books, including Extreme Kids, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. Scott is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys backpacking, river rafting, skiing, and mountaineering. He lives with his spouse, who is an emergency physician, in Durango, Colorado.
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