Pamela Steele Greasewood Creek novel

Pamela Steele will read from her new novel Greasewood Creek
(Counterpoint Press) at the La Grande Public Library Colleen Johnson
Community Room, 2006 Fourth Street (on the north side of the
building). This free event will begin at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, November
29. Sunflower Books will offer copies of Greasewood Creek for
purchase.

Pamela Steele lives in Echo and teaches composition in Hermiston for
Blue Mountain Community College. She earned her MFA in Poetry from
Spalding University. Her collection of poetry Paper Bird was nominated
for an Oregon Book Award in 2008. Her accomplishments include George
Scarbrough Award for Poetry, the Jim Wayne Miller Poetry Prize, and
fellowships with Jentel Artists and Fishtrap. Nominated for a Pacific
Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Greasewood Creek is set in
Eastern Oregon and addresses the impact of a child’s death on a
family.

Of her poetry, Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma Red, writes,
“Steele transforms the ordinary—cupping moments like the source of
light in the palms of her hands.” Her writing is “honest and spare,
wistful and haunting.”

This event is co-sponsored by the Blue Mountain Writers and by the La
Grande Public Library. Refreshments will be served. For more
information, please contact Blue Mountain Writers Coordinator Nancy
Knowles nknowles@eou.edu or (541) 962-3795.