AUTHOR RUTH NOLAN TO CURATE TWO SESSIONS

College of the Desert creative writing professor and desert author Ruth Nolan will curate and moderate two sessions for the 2024 29 Palms Book Festival. She will lead a Native American Roundtable literary reading and discussion featuring Native authors from the California Deserts and Inland Southern California, with authors to be announced. Additionally, she will host a reading showcase featuring creative writing students and faculty from the College of the Desert. Nolan, a prolific scholar of California desert literature who grew up in the Mojave Desert and has lived here for much of her life, has spent the past twenty years bringing extensive and impactful literary and writing workshop programming to the desert region. "I am very excited about the programming of the Twentynine Palms Book Festival and what it brings to our long-underserved high desert communities," says Nolan. "The inaugural 2023 festival was an amazing and potent literary event that brought acclaimed writers and community members together for an inspirational day of books and desert story-sharing. I look forward to helping bring a Native American Roundtable event and a showcase of College of the Desert writers to the 2024 event."