Prairie Lights

Wayne Johnson will read from his acclaimed Buck Fineday mystery, The Witch Tree.  The Witch Tree is a prequel to The Red Canoe,  praised by William Kent Krueger, who calls Wayne Johnson “one of the most original voices of the past several years.” The Red Canoe was a most anticipated title of 2022 from CrimeReads.
Wayne Johnson is a frequent instructor of the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and an alum of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.  He is the multiple Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of Don’t Think Twice, Six Crooked Highways, The Devil You Know, Live to Ride, and many other works of fiction and nonfiction. Of mixed Native and European descent, he grew up in southern Minneapolis, and in the north lakes region of Minnesota on the White Earth and Red Lake Reservations. He currently resides in Salt Lake City