Roe is a young adult novelist whose work focuses on rural experience. Her novels include Air, the Wilderness Ridge series and Thaw. ** Support for this event comes from the Ila Hemm Visiting Author Program.

Open mic at 7:00 p.m. (share your best five minutes of original creative writing). Featured reading at 7:30 p.m. is also available via live Zoomcast. Click to sign up for a link.

The Final Thursday Reading Series is a collaboration of Final Thursday Press; the Hearst Center for the Arts; the University of Northern Iowa College of Humanities, Arts, & Sciences; and the UNI Department of Languages & Literatures. 

Additional funding for the 25th anniversary season of the Final Thursday Reading Series is provided by the UNI Sesquicentennial Celebration.