Join us in celebrating Lighthouse faculty member Erika Krouse, whose book, Save Me, Stranger, comes out from Flatiron Books in January. Adam Johnson calls Save Me, Stranger a “visionary collection” of “little masterpieces of heart and longing and surprise.” Erika will read from her new book, followed by an onstage conversation with Jenny Shank, an audience Q&A, and a book signing.
Schedule:
3:30 PM: Happy hour with light snacks and drinks
4:15 PM: Reading, conversation, and signing
5:15 PM: Signing
Copies of Save Me, Stranger can be purchased here.
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Erika Krouse has taught at Lighthouse since 2008; she is a Book Project mentor and a winner of the Lighthouse Beacon Award. Erika's most recent collection of short stories, Save Me, Stranger, is out with Flatiron Books in January 2025. It has garnered starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, and praise from Louise Erdrich, Adam Johnson, Ann Beattie, Aimee Bender, and Vauhini Vara.
Erika's recent memoir, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, is a winner of the Edgar Award, the Colorado Book Award, and the Housatonic Book Award. Tell Me Everything is also a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick, a Book of the Month Club pick, a People Pick, and has appeared on Best Book lists for Kirkus Reviews, Slate, BookPage, and Jezebel. Contenders (novel) was a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award; Come Up and See Me Sometime (short stories), was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Paterson Fiction Award.
Erika's short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire.com, Ploughshares, One Story, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, and other places. Erika has also written everything from book reviews for The New York Times to horoscopes for Glamour. The only thing she doesn’t like writing is her bio.
Jenny Shank's short story collection, Mixed Company, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and is a finalist for the Colorado Book Award (General Fiction). Her novel, The Ringer, won the High Plains Book Award in fiction, was a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's Reading the West Book Awards, was a Tattered Cover Book Store Summer Reading selection, and was the featured book in the Wheat Ridge Reads community reading program.
Jenny's stories, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, McSweeney's, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Poets & Writers Magazine, Bust Magazine, The Guardian, Santa Monica Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Image, Barrelhouse, The Toast, and The Rumpus. Her fiction, nonfiction, and satire have been anthologized in The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals, Dear McSweeney's: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer, and Love in the Time of Time's Up: A Short Fiction Anthology.
One of her stories was listed among the "Notable Essays of the Year" in Best American Essays and another received Special Mention in the 2018 Pushcart Prize anthology. She has won writing awards from the Center of the American West, the Montana Committee for the Humanities, the Society of Professional Journalists, SouthWest Writers, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.
