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Johnston will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in the Student Union Lookout
Room. Johnston grew up in Boise and graduated from the University of
Idaho before relocating to the Midwest. A graduate of the Iowa
Writer’s Workshop and the Ph.D. program at the University of
Missouri-Columbia, her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in “High
Plains Literary Review,” “Orchid,” “The Missouri Review,” the
Chronicle of Higher Education and many other publications. She chairs
the Communication Studies Department at Texas Lutheran University and lives in San Antonio with her husband and children.
Johnston’s first novel, “Little Lost River,” was released earlier
this year. Set in Boise in the 1980s, it is “an unforgettable novel
about two generations, mothers and daughters, linked by bonds of love
and pain.”
Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings nationally
renowned authors and poets to the Boise State campus. Past speakers
include Rick Bass, Chris Offutt, Rae Armantrout, Alice Notley, Michael
Palmer, Joy Williams, Anthony Doerr, Richard Bausch and Nathaniel
Mackey.
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