This week the University of Nebraska Press will be at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), and we’re exited to host several authors in our booths to celebrate and sign their newest creative works. Visit us in booths 1022, 1023, and 1024 and follow us on Twitter at @UnivNebPress for updates during the conference. 

With so many authors, there’s something for nearly every reader and interest. Whether you love talking about writing, are struggling with addiction, are interested in fishing, or really just don’t want to die, stop by and meet your new favorite book.

If you aren’t able to attend the conference this week, please visit our virtual book exhibit for the same great conference discounts! 

Thursday, March 5

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in-booth signing for How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

Sue William Silverman is a memoirist, poet, and teacher of writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has published several books, including Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, and Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction

3:00 – 3:30 p.m. in-booth signing for The Distance Between

Timothy Hillegonds has published work in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Rumpus, Brevity, and other publications. He lives in Chicago with his wife and serves as contributing editor for Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts.

 

Friday, March 6

10:30 – 11:00 a.m. in-booth signing for In Search of Monster Fish

Mark Spitzer is an associate professor of writing at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, consulted for Nat Geo’s Monster Fish, and appeared on Animal Planet’s River Monsters.

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. in-booth signing for Disparates

Patrick Madden is a professor at Brigham Young University. He is the author of the award-winning Sublime Physick: Essays (Nebraska, 2016) and Quotidiana: Essays (Nebraska, 2010), and coeditor, with David Lazar, of After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays.

 

Saturday, March 7

2:00 – 3:00 pm in-booth signing for Apple, Tree

Lise Funderburg is a writer, an editor, and a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Funderburg’s collection of oral histories, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity, has become a core text in the study of American multiracial identity in college courses around the world. Her latest book is Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home.