The Montana Book Festival is proud of present Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place with visiting panelists and contributors to the collection, Gretel Ehrlich, Debra Earling and Christopher Merrill.

A Year in the Wilderness duo Amy & Dave Freeman will be featured in Eastern Kentucky University’s Annual Bruce MacLaren Distinguished Lecture and Keynote Address for Celebration of Science Week.

Unabridged Bookstore will host Sarah Ruhl (Letters from Max) in conversation with director Jessica Thebus with a Q&A and booksigning to follow the discussion.

Playwright and author Sarah Ruhl will read passages from her newest collection, Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship at the Cincinnati location of Joseph-Beth Booksellers.

The English Department at Lewis & Clark will host poet Fady Joudah for a reading of his latest works, including Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance.

The Poetry Research Bureau will host poets Will Brewer, Elizabeth Metzger, and Noah Warren.

The Yale Bookstore will host Sarah Ruhl for a reading of her newest work, Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship.

Poet Martha Collins will make an appearance at Beaverdale Books for an intimate reading.

Author of the anticipated collection of essays, All the Wild Hungers, Karen Babine will be featured in Moving Words: Writers Across Minnesota with three other Minnesota Book Award winners, Peter Geye, Cary Griffith, and Kao Kalia Yang.

Muhlenberg College will host The Carrying poet Ada Limón for their Living Writers Lecture Series.