Kathryn Scanlan in Conversation with Holly Pester

Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty-six-year-old woman living in a small Illinois town, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the stranger’s diary. In the years following she edited, arranged, and rearranged the diarists’ words into the composition that is Aug 9 – Fog.

Kathryn Scanlan is the author of The Dominant Animal and Kick the Latch. Originally from Iowa, she lives in Los Angeles.

Holly Pester is a poet and writer. She is the author of collection of poems, Comic Timing, and a novel, The Lodgers.

The event will be followed by an audience Q&A.