2024 Keynote:
Emily St. John Mandel

7:30 P.M. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2024
The Missouri Theatre, 203 S. Ninth St., Columbia, MO

It is our absolute pleasure to announce that next year's keynote speaker will be
Emily St. John Mandel. Emily will be in conversation with Sequoia Nagamatsu.

Emily is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, and (most recently) Sea of Tranquility. Her novel Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books, and was adapted into a limited series for HBO. A previous novel, The Singer's Gun, was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections, including Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is a staff writer for The Millions.

Books by will be available for purchase at the event, and Emily will be signing after the talk.

Sequoia Nagamatsu

Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of NYT Editors' Choice and national bestselling novel, How High We Go in the Dark, and the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. His work has appeared in publications such as Conjunctions, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Tin House, Iowa Review, Lightspeed Magazine, and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, and has been listed as notable in Best American Non-Required Reading and the Best Horror of the Year. He has been named a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Award, shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Hemingway Award. He teaches creative writing at Saint Olaf College and the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program and lives in Minneapolis. More at: SequoiaNagamatsu.com