Community Bulletin Board: Reading by California-based writer Oct. 22 at the Oats Park Arts Center

Kendra Atleework was born and raised on the dry edge of California at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. She moved away for a decade, mostly spent being homesick and researching the place she left behind – the product of which is her first book Miracle Country (2021), winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award and the 2021 Women Writing the West WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction.