An Evening With Sean Hill and James Conaway

Elk River Books and Elk River Arts & Lectures present an evening with author and artist James Conaway and poet and educator Sean Hill at Elk River Books, 122 S. 2nd Street, Livingston. Doors will open at 6:30 pm, and remarks will begin at 7 pm on Thursday, May 21st. This event is free and open to all and will be followed by a reception and book signing.

Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, and most recently, the multi-genre collection, The Negroes Send Their Love: Poems, Perspectives and Possible Futures. His work has been called “A rich honoring of place, lineage, and history also interwoven with the cares and concerns of fatherhood, of loss, and of love in the future,” by MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib. Hill lives in southwestern Montana with his family and is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Montana. He served as faculty for the Elk River Writers Workshop in 2022 and 2023.

James Conaway is a Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of numerous books, including the best-selling Napa: The Story of an American Eden. He recently completed a memoir, When Writing Mattered, about his many years as a freelance journalist. His new poetry and art collection is called Pulling Stone, and his new novel is called Bellringer. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Harper's, The New Republic, Gourmet, Smithsonian, and National Geographic Traveler.

For those who can’t attend in person, the event will live-stream on the Elk River Books YouTube channel. For more information, email info@elkriverbooks.com or call (406) 333-2330.