You are hereMeet the Author: Novelist BK Loren co-sponsored by Great Old Broads for Wilderness

Meet the Author: Novelist BK Loren co-sponsored by Great Old Broads for Wilderness

Start: 08/06/2012 6:30 pm

End: 08/06/2012 7:30 pm

We're excited to present BK Loren's regionally-set, engrossing debut novel, Theft in this event, co-sponsored by our friends at Great Old Broads for Wilderness. Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national organization that uses the voices and activism of elders to preserve and protect wilderness and wild public lands. Conceived by older women who love wilderness, Broads gives voice to the millions of older (and not so able) Americans who want to protect their public lands as Wilderness for this and future generations. They bring voice, knowledge, commitment, and humor to the movement to protect our last wild places on earth.

Willa Robbins is a master tracker working to reintroduce the Mexican wolf, North America's most endangered mammal, to the American Southwest. But when Colorado police recruit her to find her own brother, Zeb, a confessed murderer, she knows skill alone will not sustain her. Willa is thrown back into the past, surfacing memories of a childhood full of intense love, desperate mistakes, and gentle remorse. Trekking through exquisite New Mexico and Colorado landscapes, with Zeb two steps ahead and the police two steps behind, Willa must wrangle her desire to reunite with her brother and her own guilt about their violent past.

theft In this remarkable debut, BK Loren's lyrical prose gives voice to the wildlife and land surrounding these beautifully flawed characters, breathing life into the southwestern terrain. Within this treacherous and mesmerizing landscape, Theft illustrates the struggle to piece together the fragile traces of what has been left behind, allowing for new choices to take shape. This is a story about family, about loss, and about a search for answers.

bkl You can read BK Loren’s short fiction and essays in Orion Magazine, The Best Spiritual Writing of 2004 and 2012, The Future of Nature, Berkeley Fiction Review, Yoga International, Between Song and Story, and many other anthologies and periodicals. She is grateful for the many awards and fellowships that allow her to spend her days writing. This year, she has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. She is currently completing a second novel and a collection of creative nonfiction essays. For more information, check out www.bkloren.com.