Godshot author Chelsea Bieker will read from her new literary suspense Madwoman. She will be joined in conversation by Rachel Yoder.  “Madwoman is brilliant. The rare kind of book that lives in your bones, as riveting as it is intimate. This is emotional suspense at its best, but it’s also a chronicle of modern womanhood, an exploration of what mothers and daughters do to and for each other, and an ode to hope in the aftermath of trauma. Somehow, Bieker delivers all of this in a voice that is fresh, urgent, and darkly comic. A novel hasn’t consumed me like this in a very long time. Madwoman is on my list of all-time favorites.”―Ashley Audrain

Chelsea Bieker’s debut novel, Godshot, was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and named a Barnes & Noble Pick of the Month. Her story collection, Heartbroke, won the California Book Award and was a New York Times “Best California Book of 2022.” She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, as well as residencies at MacDowell and Tin House. Raised in Hawaii and California, she lives in Portland, Oregon.

Rachel Yoder is the author of the bestselling novel Nightbitch, and founding editor of draft: the journal of process.  Formerly the 23/24 Trias Writer-in-Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, she now serves as Assistant Professor of Screenwriting and Cinema Arts at the University of Iowa.