# Event Details

- **Event Name**: SPRINGDALE, UTAH | Amy Irvine, Jake Skeets, and Pam Houston at Bumbleberry Theatre
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: How do stories bring us together? How do we find joy in the least likely places? How do we learn from the land and our fellow creatures? Join Amy Irvine, Jake Skeets, and Pam Houston for a conversation about reading and writing the West and making a world where love remains. 

AMY IRVINE is the author of three books. Her memoir, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land, won the Orion Book Award and Colorado Book Award. Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, is a feminist response to Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, which was included in Orion's "25 Most-Read Stories of the Decade," Outside's "Adventure Canon," and Backpacker's "New Wilderness Classics," it was also included in "Recommended Reads" from Stanford University’s climate scientists. Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place was co-authored by Pam Houston—based on correspondence between the two authors during the 2020 lockdown. Irvine has taught both fiction and nonfiction in the Mountainview MFA Program at Southern New Hampshire University, and has served as the William Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer for University of Montana’s Environmental Humanities Program. Her essays have appeared in two of the "Best American" series as well as in Orion, High Country News, Triquarterly, Pacific Standard, Outside, and more. She lives and writes on a remote mesa in southwest Colorado. Her second memoir, Almost Animal, is forthcoming by Spiegel & Grau.

JAKE SKEETS is the author of two books of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Whiting Award, and the highly anticipated second collection, Horses. His work has appeared in journals and magazines such as Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review. Other honors include an NEA Grant for Arts Projects, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and the 2023-2024 Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. He is the third Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

PAM HOUSTON is the author of Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood and Freedom, as well as the short story collection Cowboys Are My Weakness, the memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, and six other books of fiction and nonfiction. Her books have won multiple Western States, Mountains and Plains and Colorado Book Awards and her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, the O Henry Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories of the Century. She teaches creative writing at The Institute of American Indian Arts and UC Davis and is cofounder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers and fiction editor at the environmental arts journal Terrain.org. She lives on a homestead at 9,000 feet near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. Her book, Animals Taught Me Everything, will be published by Torrey House Press in October 2026.

This event is presented by Zion Canyon Mesa's Community Conversations series, with generous support from the Zion National Park Forever Project and in partnership with Torrey House Press.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/springdale/springdale-utah-|-amy-irvine-jake-skeets-and-pam-houston-at-bumbleberry-theatre/200029664539523
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, theatre, trips-adventures
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Springdale
- **state**: UT
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Bumbleberry Theater
- **lat**: 37.18779
- **long**: -112.99894
- **full address**: Bumbleberry Theater, 897 Zion Park Blvd, Springdale, UT 84767-7703, United States

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- **organizer**: Torrey House Press (https://allevents.in/org/torrey-house-press/12913521)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Bumbleberry Theater, 897 Zion Park Blvd, Springdale, UT 84767-7703, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Torrey House Press
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, theatre, trips-adventures
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