Books in Bloom 2024
Where
The Westin Riverfront Mountain Villas, Beaver Creek Mountain
218 Riverfront LnAvon, CO 81620
Gondola Ballroom
Three Authors, One Afternoon.
Matthew Batt
Matthew Batt is author of the memoir Sugarhouse and The Last Supper Club: A Waiter’s Requiem. His fiction and nonfiction have been featured in the New York Times, Outside Magazine, the Huffington Post, Tin House, and elsewhere. The recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation, and the Aspen Writers’ Institute, he teaches creative writing and English in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the novels The Waters, Once Upon a River, a National Bestseller, and Q Road. Her critically acclaimed short fiction collections include American Salvage, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Women and Other Animals, which won the AWP Prize for Short Fiction; and Mothers, Tell Your Daughters. She was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.
Buzzy Jackson
Buzzy Jackson is the award-winning author of three nonfiction books and the novel To Die Beautiful (North America)/The Girl With the Red Hair (UK/worldwide). Buzzy has a Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley and is a member of the National Book Critics’ Circle. She is currently at work on a new novel inspired by a midcentury American true crime.
