Readings and lectures

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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

• 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 

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

CNN – View video

• 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

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

NPR – Hello From Flyover Territory: 3 Midwestern Novels

• Huffington Post – Read the story
• AdWeek – Read the story
• Des Moines Register Read the story
• Urban Plains – Read the story
• Raygun – Read the story
• WaterWired – Read the story
• Des Moines Business Record – Read the story
• Water Online – Read the stor

Iowa Public Radio Listen to interview #1