

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: ASU Book Group: ‘Visiting Composer’ by Andrea Avery
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: The ASU Book Group's March 2026 reading selection is the novella “Visiting Composer” by fiction writer and memoirist Andrea Avery, an ASU graduate (BA music ’00, MFA creative writing ’03, and EdD leadership and innovation ’17).

The book group is open to all in the ASU community and meets monthly this spring from noon to 1 p.m.

Haven't read the book? Come anyway! Authors are always present.

Synopsis: Winner of the 2024 Miami University Press Novella Prize, “Visiting Composer” is “a brief trip out of time” featuring two 19-year-old women who both want to be composers. One of them, Gloria Clifford, lives in Baltimore in 1910. But after falling down a staircase and hitting her head, she crash-lands in Enid Bluff’s music theory class in Arizona … in 1996. What follows is a story about friendship, the struggle to be both a woman and an artist, and those imbalances of power which end up repeating like unfortunate refrains, time and again.

The ASU Book Group is sponsored as a community outreach initiative hosted in partnership between the Department of English and ASU Library.

More information: https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/asu-book-group-visiting-composer-andrea-avery
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/tempe/asu-book-group-‘visiting-composer’-by-andrea-avery/200029705770305
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://asu.libcal.com/calendar/librarycommunications/asubookgroupvisitingcomposer?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=tempe-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Tempe
- **state**: AZ
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Charles Trumbull Hayden Library
- **lat**: 33.418913198644
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- **full address**: Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, 300 E. Orange Mall,Tempe, Arizona, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: ASU Department of English (https://allevents.in/org/asu-department-of-english/7499564)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, 300 E. Orange Mall,Tempe, Arizona, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** ASU Department of English
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about ASU Book Group: ‘Visiting Composer’ by Andrea Avery ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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