Readings and lectures

Readings and lectures

Public readings

Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City; Boulder Bookstore, Edmunds Bookshop, Edmunds, Washington; Iowa City Public Library; Des Moines Public Library AVID author, Madison Public Library, The Book Cellar, Chicago; Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa; Mason City, Iowa, Public Library; Ankeny, Iowa, Public Library; Knoxville, Iowa, Public Library

Workshops and lectures

Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin College, Grand Rapids
Keynote author, Lake Chapala Writer’s Conference
Faculty, Iowa Writer’s House
Writer in Residence, Valley High School, Des Moines
Simpson College, Water, reading/ panel discussion
Des Moines Public Library AVID Reading Series • 2012-current, Featured Author, Moderator (Cheryl Strayed, Beth Hoffman)
All Iowa Writer's Conference
Boulder Creative Writing Workshop

Podcast and radio

NPR – Hello From Flyover Territory: 3 Midwestern Novels

Travel with Rick Steves – Listen to the radio interview here

Iowa Public Radio Listen to interview #1

Iowa Public Radio Listen to interview #2

Television

CNN – View video

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News and reviews

Running Away to Home

A sampling of press coverage

Features

Escaping during the Pandemic
Alaska Airlines – Time Travel
Go Nomad - New Life in a Small Village
Bon Appetit – One of the Upsides to Chucking It All and Moving to Croatia? The Food (Seriously)
Mother of All Trips
Juice – Munson: Rich, colorful characters surround D.M. author here, abroad
Your Family Tree – Read the story

Interviews

CNN – View video

Travel with Rick Steves – Listen to the radio interview here

Iowa Public Radio Listen to interview #1

Iowa Public Radio Listen to interview #2

KCCI interview – View video

Other press

NPR – Hello From Flyover Territory: 3 Midwestern Novels