A Reading from HDJ Issue No. 32

feat. Corrie Williamson, Karen Auvinen, and Leeanna Torres

Watch HDJ contributors Corrie Williamson, Karen Auvinen, and Leanna Torres give a special reading from Issue No. 32.

Karen Auvinen is a poet, writer, mountain woman, outlier, and life-long westerner, and the author of the memoir Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living (Scribner), finalist for the Colorado Book Award and the WILLA Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, LitHub, Real Simple, Westword, as well as Ascent Magazine, Cold Mountain Review, and The Columbia Review, among others. Her fiction has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. She teaches writing at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and for Fishtrap and lives at 8600 feet with her husband, her dog River, and Dottie the cat, within the Roosevelt National Forest and the ancestral territories of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho peoples. More at karenauvinen.com. Read her short story, “Love, Hank” in HDJ Issue No. 32 here.

Leeanna T. Torres is a native daughter of the American Southwest, with deep Indo-Hispanic roots in New Mexico. She has worked as an environmental professional throughout the West since 2001. Her creative nonfiction work has been published in Blue Mesa Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and is forthcoming in an anthology about the Gila Wilderness by Torrey House Press (2021). Read her essay, “Chicano Air Conditioner,” in HDJ Issue No. 32 here.

Corrie Williamson is the author of the poetry collections The River Where You Forgot My Name, a finalist for the 2019 Montana Book Award, and Sweet Husk. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, 32 Poems, Ecotone, and Terrain.org. She lives in Montana, where she's at work on her third collection, Your Mother's Bear Gun. Find her at corriewilliamson.net. Read 4 of her poems from HDJ Issue No. 32 here.