Stone Award Community Discussion: Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

A discussion of Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, the 2024 Stone Award for Literary Achievement winner, facilitated by local author Justin St. Germain.

Join us for a discussion of bestselling, critically-acclaimed, author Robin Wall Kimmerer's first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. The discussion will be led by Justin St. Germain, local author of the memoir: Son of a Gun and Bookmarked: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.

Pick up a copy of the book to check out, while supplies last, from the 2nd floor reference desk of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library.

Robin Wall Kimmerer has been awarded the 2024 Stone Award for Literary Achievement by Oregon State University. The Stone Award recognizes major American authors with bodies of critically acclaimed work that influence multiple generations of writers, readers, and thinkers. Past recipients include writer and cartoonist Lynda Barry in 2021, novelist Colson Whitehead in 2019, and poet Rita Dove in 2016.

Kimmerer will visit Oregon State’s main campus this spring to meet with students and deliver a public reading. Her reading will take place at 7pm on Friday, May 17 at OSU’s new Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx): https://prax.oregonstate.edu/events/robin-wall-kimmerer

About Justin St. Germain: Justin St. Germain is the author of two books, the internationally acclaimed memoir Son of a Gun and the book-length essay Bookmarked: Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. He is an associate professor at Oregon State, where he teaches nonfiction and true crime courses.