BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wenatcheeriverinstitute.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2. 30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:a1b7415a-a191-4fdd-9323-49b4d746746e X-WR-CALDESC:Coiled Book Launch with Ana Maria Spagna\n\nLive stream the event or watch it later on YouTube at this link.\n\nNo registration requ ired\, but RSVP to receive email reminders and updates about this event!\n \nDoors to the Red Barn open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer an d wine available for purchase. The presentation will start at 7:00pm. A Bo ok For All Seasons will be onsite selling Coiled and other of Ana M aria's books. \n\nAbout the presentation:\nLocal author Ana Maria S pagna returns to the Red Barn to launch her brand new book\, Coiled: Essay s on Urgency and Kinship. This collection covers eight years of unrest\, p ersonal and communal\, beginning with stubborn patriotic certainty\, a fai th in neighborliness and American ideals\, and ending with something broad er: an alliance with the matriarch\, Mother Nature\, and the ways she elid es ideology or definition. “Ana Maria Spagna has written more than a book\ ,' writes poet CMarie Fuhrman\, 'this is a compass for our disorienting ti mes. With the eye of a naturalist and soul of a poet\, Spagna leads us thr ough landscapes of grief\, political turmoil\, and ecological wonder\, ult imately leading us to what really matters: kinship. Whether witnessing the release of a wild fisher or navigating difficult waters of loss\, Spagna writes with the kind of vulnerability that at once wrecks and heals. This collection is a howl. It is a prayer. Coiled is a warm hand on the shoulde r reminding us that even on the ‘hairline fringe’ we are never alone.”\n\n Publication Date: November 01\, 2026\nImprint: Bison Books\n\n\nAbout A na Maria\nAna Maria Spagna is a long-time resident of the North Casca des whose writing explores the intersections of nature\, community\, queer ness\, and social justice in the American West. She is the author of ten b ooks\, most recently\, Coiled: Essays on Urgency and Kinship. Her work has been recognized by the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize\, Washington State Book Awards\, Nautilus Book Awards\, and the Society of Environment al Journalists. She teaches at Wenatchee Valley College and in the Graduat e Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University. She lives wi th her wife\, Laurie\, and cat\, Maybelle\, in Stehekin. X-WR-RELCALID:431e2db6a27fe25080474af368b87e8a X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20271107T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20270314T020000 RDATE:20280312T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:bc2cb790-570e-4630-8603-069f886833f2 DTSTAMP:20260905T025826Z DESCRIPTION:Coiled Book Launch with Ana Maria Spagna\n\nLives tream the event or watch it later on YouTube at this link.\n\nNo registration requi red\, but RSVP to receive email reminders and updates about this event!\n \nDoors to the Red Barn open at 6:30pm for a community social with beer an d wine available for purchase. The presentation will start at 7:00pm. A Bo ok For All Seasons will be onsite selling Coiled and other of Ana M aria's books. \n\nAbout the presentation:\nLocal author Ana Maria S pagna returns to the Red Barn to launch her brand new book\, Coiled: Essay s on Urgency and Kinship. This collection covers eight years of unrest\, p ersonal and communal\, beginning with stubborn patriotic certainty\, a fai th in neighborliness and American ideals\, and ending with something broad er: an alliance with the matriarch\, Mother Nature\, and the ways she elid es ideology or definition. “Ana Maria Spagna has written more than a book\ ,' writes poet CMarie Fuhrman\, 'this is a compass for our disorienting ti mes. With the eye of a naturalist and soul of a poet\, Spagna leads us thr ough landscapes of grief\, political turmoil\, and ecological wonder\, ult imately leading us to what really matters: kinship. Whether witnessing the release of a wild fisher or navigating difficult waters of loss\, Spagna writes with the kind of vulnerability that at once wrecks and heals. This collection is a howl. It is a prayer. Coiled is a warm hand on the shoulde r reminding us that even on the ‘hairline fringe’ we are never alone.”\n\n Publication Date: November 01\, 2026\nImprint: Bison Books\n\n\nAbout A na Maria\nAna Maria Spagna is a long-time resident of the North Casca des whose writing explores the intersections of nature\, community\, queer ness\, and social justice in the American West. She is the author of ten b ooks\, most recently\, Coiled: Essays on Urgency and Kinship. Her work has been recognized by the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize\, Washington State Book Awards\, Nautilus Book Awards\, and the Society of Environment al Journalists. She teaches at Wenatchee Valley College and in the Graduat e Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University. She lives wi th her wife\, Laurie\, and cat\, Maybelle\, in Stehekin. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T200000 LOCATION:HYBRID EVENT: WRI's Red Barn 347 Division Street\, Leavenworth\, W A 98826 or livestream via our YouTube SUMMARY:Red Barn Event: 'Coiled' Book Launch END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR