Acclaimed Writer Joanna Howard to Visit ISU

Acclaimed writer Joanna Howard will visit Idaho State University  March 29-30 to hold a reading and additional events.

Howard’s visit is sponsored by ISU’s Department of English and Philosophy and by Black Rock and Sage, ISU’s student journal of creative works.

On Wednesday, March 29 at 6 p.m. in Historic Downtown Pocatello’s Valentine Ballroom (100 S. Arthur), Howard will read from her recent memoir, Rerun Era, followed by a Q&A session. The reading is free and the public is encouraged to attend. Book sales and signing will follow.

Rerun Era (McSweeney's 2019) chronicles Howard's upbringing in rural Oklahoma in the late seventies/early eighties and has garnered wide critical acclaim. Kirkus Reviews hailed Rerun Era as "deftly written" and the Chicago Review of Books named it one of the best books of 2019.

Howard is also the author of the novel Foreign Correspondent (Counterpath 2013), the story collections On the Winding Stair (BOA Editions, Ltd. 2009) and In the Colorless Round (Noemi Press 2006), and is co-author of Field Glass (Sidebrow 2017) with Joanna Ruocco. She also co-translated Walls by Marcel Cohen and Cows by Frederic Boyer. For many years Howard taught in the Creative Writing Department at Brown University. She now teaches at Denver University.

During her visit, Howard will also hold a class for ISU’s advanced creative writing students and will perform an outreach event at Pocatello High School.