Titan alum and author Jennifer Givhan ’07, ’09 (B.A., M.A. English) will return to her alma mater April 16 to perform a reading at the Pollak Library. The event will take place at 11:30 a.m. in Pollak Library, Room 130, and is sponsored by the Patrons of the Library and the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics.
Givhan, a Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist from the Southwestern desert, is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices. The Los Angeles Times called her novel, “Salt Bones,” “a triumph… one of the most masterful marriages of horror, mystery, thriller and literary writing.” It was also named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a Book Riot Best Mystery and Thriller of the Year, a Marie Claire Best Mystery-Thriller of the Year, a Library Journal Stellar Selection, and an American Library Association Best Book of the Year.
She is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including “Rosa’s Einstein” and “Belly to the Brutal,” and the novels, “Trinity Sight” and “Jubilee,” which were finalists for the Arizona-New Mexico Book Awards and won The Southwest Book Award. Her novel, “River Woman, River Demon,” was chosen for Amazon’s Book Club and a National Together We Read Library Pick. It was also featured on CBS Mornings, selected as a finalist for the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Western Novel and won an International Latino Book Award in the Rudolfo Anaya Latino-Focused Fiction category.
Her newest novel, “The Sleeping Sisters,” will be published Aug. 18.