The five “To Taste Life Twice” writing instructors will come together for a panel discussion and share more about their writing lives and practice. Join us to hear from these esteemed Idaho writers and to pose your own questions to them. Coffee and light pastries will be provided. No registration required.

Christian Winn was Idaho’s 2016-2019 Writer in Residence, he is the founder of the Writers Write fiction workshop series, co-founder and Director of Storyfort, and producer of the Campfire Stories reading series and the Couch Surfer Artist Series. He is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and the Boise State University MFA program.

Rebecca Evans is a memoirist, poet, and essayist. She mentors high school teens in the juvenile system and co-hosts a radio program, Writer to Writer. She earned two MFAs, one in CNF, the other in Poetry. Her memoir-in-verse, TANGLED BY BLOOD, will be available in Spring, 2023 (Moon Tide Press).

McCall-based CMarie Fuhrman is Idaho’s current Writer in Residence, the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and co-editor of Native Voices. She has published poetry and nonfiction in multiple journals and is a regular columnist for the Inlander, Non-Fiction editor for High Desert Journal, and Director of the Elk River Writers Workshop. She is the Director of Poetry for Western Colorado University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program where she also teaches Nature Writing.

Author of What Stands in a Storm and The Stahl House, Kim Cross is a New York Times Best-Selling writer, journalist, and historian known for meticulously reported narrative nonfiction. Her stories have been recognized by the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Sunday Longread, Longform, and Best American Sports Writing. Her fourth book, In Light of All Darkness, comes out this October (Grand Central/Hachette). She also teaches Feature Writing for Harvard Extension School.

Alan Heathcock is a Boise-based writer of short stories and novels, winner of a Whiting Award, the GLCA New Writers Award, a National Magazine Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Lannan Foundation, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

Learn more about the three-day "To Taste Life Twice" Seminar here.