Novelist David Huebert & Nonfiction Writer Sean Prentiss

Lit Youngstown presents a reading and booksigning by David Huebert of Halifax, Canada and Sean Prentiss of Vermont. ASL interpretation provided by Meagan Albani.

David Huebert has won the CBC Short Story Prize, appeared several times in Best Canadian Stories, and was a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize. His two short story collections, Peninsula Sinking and Chemical Valley, have won the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize and the Dartmouth Book Award for fiction. His debut novel, Oil People, was published in August 2024 and has been called “lyrical,” “elegant,” and “wildly hallucinatory.” David teaches in the fiction MFA program at the University of King’s College in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), where he lives with his partner and two children.

Sean Prentiss is the author of a memoir, Finding Abbey: the Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, which won the National Outdoor Book Award. He is the author of two memoirs-in-poems, including Crosscut: Poems, and Majella: Poems from a Mountain Home. He is the co-author of two textbooks, Environmental and Nature Writing and Advanced Creative Nonfiction, and is the co-editor of The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction. He is a professor at Norwich University. He and his family live on a small lake in northern Vermont.

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