Author reading: Caroline Patterson

Ballet at the Moose Lodge, showcases sixteen of Caroline Patterson's extraordinary stories. In these stories, Patterson explores what it is to grow up female in the American West. In delicate and searing prose, Patterson reveals the visible and invisible negotiations women make to navigate lives bound by the rugged western landscape.

Caroline edited Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart and published fiction journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Big Sky Journal, Epoch, Southwest Review, and Seventeen. She has published numerous travel pieces on the Rocky Mountain West and two children book's on the natural world. She lives in Missoula, Montana.

This event is part of reading series sponsored by the MSU-B Department of English, Philosophy, and Modern Languages as part of its graduate certificate program in writing.