6/22 Katharine Beutner

Award-winning author Katharine Beutner comes to Riverstone Books for a conversation with Sarah Shotland. Beutner's new novel, Killingly, is a gripping read and an unforgettable historical portrait of academia, family trauma, and the risks faced by women who dared to pursue unconventional paths at the end of the 19th century.

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Katharine Beutner is an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster in Ohio; previously, she taught at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. She earned a BA in Classical Studies at Smith College and an MA in English (creative writing) and a PhD in English literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Her first novel, Alcestis, won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and was a finalist for other awards, including the Lambda Literary Association’s Lesbian Debut Fiction Award. Her writing has appeared in Tinfish, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Toast, TriQuarterly, Humanities, and other publications. Recently, she received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. She is the editor in chief of The Dodge, a magazine of eco-writing and translation.

Sarah Shotland is the author of the novel Junkette and the nonfiction project Abolition is Everything. Her work has been published in The Iowa Review, Baltimore Review, Creative Nonfiction and elsewhere. She is the Program Director of Madwomen in the Attic at Carlow University where she is Assistant Professor of English.