Katie Fallon, an outdoor enthusiast and bird lover who authored Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011), kicks off the spring 鈥�,鈥� on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 5:30 p.m., in 草莓社区鈥檚 (EMU) Campus Center room 105.
Reserve tickets online at or by calling the language & literature department at 540-432-4168 by Friday, Jan. 25.
Cerulean Blues, Fallon鈥檚 first book, was recently named a finalist for the 鈥檚 Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. Her essay 鈥淗ill of the Sacred Eagles鈥� was selected as a finalist in the 2011 essay contest.
Her work has appeared in a variety of other magazines and literary journals, including The Bark, Fourth Genre, Ecotone, River Teeth, Isotope, Fourth River, Appalachian Heritage, Now & Then, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Rivendell, and The New River Gorge Adventure Guide.
“Katie writes with a beautiful mix of passion and gentleness, whether she is minutely describing the habits of an endangered songbird or her reactions as a professor to the tragedy at Virginia Tech,鈥� said , assistant professor of at EMU.
Fallon has taught creative writing at West Virginia University and Virginia Tech. She co-founded the , a nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving the region’s birds through research, education and rehabilitation.
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Several of the author鈥檚 books will be available for purchase. A book signing and short question-and-answer session with the author will follow her reading. Sign-language interpretation is available upon request.
鈥� General admission, $15
鈥� EMU students with a full meal plan, $5
鈥� All other students, $7