Jill Swenson
media release: Join us for an Author Talk with Jill Swenson for their book "The Land of Everlasting Sky."
Jill will be in conversation with Denise Robbins, a Madison-based fiction author.
Our talk begins at 6:30pm, follwed by Q&A, book signing and time to shop!
About the Book:
For fans of the series Finding Your Roots, a compelling memoir about how land connects us all—and how, if we are to mend our relations to each other and the earth, we must first reckon with our past, no matter how distant, shameful, or tragic.
About the Author:
Jill D. Swenson grew up in the Twin Cities and moved to Wisconsin in high school. She graduated from Lawrence University and earned an MA and PhD from The University of Chicago before going on to teach journalism and media studies at the University of Georgia-Athens and earn tenure at Ithaca College. For a decade she lived off the grid on a small-scale sustainable farm in upstate New York; now she lives in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she works as an editor and literary consultant, belongs to a curling club and a poetry group, and enjoys walking her dog.
