A. Kendra Greene will read from her marvellous new essay collection, No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity. She will be joined in conversation by Nonfiction Writing Program Faculty Inara Verzemnieks. “No Less Strange or Wonderful doesn’t so much live up to its title as explode out of it. What the amazing A. Kendra Greene makes of the world, what she makes with the world, is unfailingly wondrous and revelatory, whether her subject is the Santa Barbara Zoo giraffe, balloon-twisting royalty, the dog that became a speck, Ebenezer Scrooge, or the manifold metaphor of Senator Ted Cruz as a sentient bag of wasps. Prepare yourself to be dazzled by this most original of writers.”–Ben Fountain

A. Kendra Greene is a writer and book artist. She is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. Her work has come into being with fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, Yaddo, Dobie Paisano, and the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard.

Inara Verzemnieks is the author of the memoir Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe.  She teaches in the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program.