USD Just Read Lecture Speaker: Dr. Karen Piper, author of The Price of Thirst

USD Just Read Lecture Speaker: Dr. Karen Piper, author of The Price of Thirst

Date and Time

Thursday, November 10, 2016

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  • Thursday, November 10, 2016 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Location

Camino Hall, Shiley Theatre

5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110

Cost

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Details

Dr. Karen Piper is the award-winning author of The Price of Thirst, Left in the Dust, and Cartographic Fictions. She grew up in China Lake, Calif., and is currently a literature and geography professor at the University of Missouri. The Price of Thirst is the winner in current events of the Next Generation Indie Book Award for 2014.  She has also received a Sierra Nature Writing Award, a National Endowment of the Humanities Awards, a Huntington Fellowship, a Carnegie Mellon Fellowship, and a Sitka Center residency. RSVP here for her talk on The Price of Thirst, this year's USD Just Read book.