Several organizations&mdash\;The Washingto n Center for the Book\, Seattle Public Library\, Spokane Public Library\, and Wishing Tree Books&mdash\;merge to celebrate The Book of Difficult Fruit by Kate Lebo\, winner of the 2022 WA State Book Award. Lebo is a writer\, educator\, baker\, and apprentice cheesemaker here in Spokane\ ; she will read alongside other local writers who helped shape this "sage and sensuous" collection. There will also be cheese and preserves\, and a celebration of other fruity titles for all ages\, including some of Lebo's favorite picture books. This is sure to be a savory and nourishing evenin g of stories and sustenance.
\nThis will be a hybrid event\, both in -person and streamed live on the S pokane Public Library YouTube channel.
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\nAbout the author:
\nKate Lebo's first collection of nonfiction\,&nbs p\;The Book of Difficult Fruit\, won the 2022 Washington State Bo ok Award for Creative Nonfiction. It was \;also named a best book of t he year by \;NPR\, \;The Atlantic\, \;New York \;magaz ine\, \;Electric \;Literature\, and \;The Globe and M ail. \;She's the author of \;the \;cookbook \;Pie School&mdash\;which will be re-released in an expanded and revised e dition in late summer 2023&mdash\;and the poetry chapbook \;Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers\, and coeditor with Samuel Ligon of \;Pie &\; Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of \;Butter &\; Booze. Her essays and poems have appeared or will appear soon in \;Best American Essays\, \;Orion\, Harper&rsquo\;s Magazin e\, \;Cake Zine\, \;The Inlander\, and elsewhere. She teaches nonfiction for the University of Idaho&rsquo\;s MFA program and \;liv es with her family in Spokane\, Washington\, where she is an apprentice ch eesemaker to Lora Lea Misterly of Quillisascut \;Farm. \;
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