Joy Passanante - Author Reading

Join us April 3rd at 7:30pm for a reading by local author Joy Passanante at Book People of Moscow.  The Associate Director of Creative Writing at the University of Idaho, Joy has been publishing in three genres for five decades. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Shenandoah.  Both her collection of stories, The Art of Absence, and her novel, My Mother’s Lovers, were finalists for several national awards. Her essays have received Shenandoah’s Thomas H. Carter Prize and, for The Georgia Review, the Gold Award for Best Profile. She has received Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowships for poetry and fiction as well as an Idaho Humanities Fellowship for nonfiction.