This event is hosted in collaboration with the Catto Charitable Foundation.

The Aspen Writers’ Foundation’s (AWF) Writer in Residence program offers writers an opportunity to spend one month in Woody Creek, CO, to focus on current writing projects. A monthly reading and talk is held for each resident author, among other special appearances by the writer to valley schools and private AWF member functions. 

The Writer in Residence for May is award-winning author Bruce Machart. His 2011 collection of stories, “Men in the Making,” followed his widely acclaimed first novel, “The Wake of Forgiveness,” which was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the fall of 2010. Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Prize for fiction, the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association’s Reading the West Prize, the novel was named a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection and a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice.” Chosen as a Top Ten title for 2010 by Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and The Wall Street Journal, the novel was a finalist for the American Booksellers Association’s Indie’s Choice award and the PEN/USA Literary Prize. The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, Machart graduated from the MFA program at The Ohio State University in 1999. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater State University. He lives in Hamilton, Massachusetts. 

Free Event. No RSVP required.

The Aspen Writers’ Foundation’s (AWF) Writer in Residence program offers writers an opportunity to spend one month in Woody Creek, CO, to focus on current writing projects. A monthly reading and talk is held for each resident author, among other special appearances by the writer to valley schools and private AWF member functions.