Join best-selling author, Barbara Kingsolver, for a conversation about Appalachia, the challenges working people face every day, and her most recent book, Demon Copperhead. Barbara will also discuss the concrete work she is doing to fight the drug epidemic in the region, and how those efforts have been joined by people across the ideological spectrum.
Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955, and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. She is the author of 18 books, which include works of fiction, non-fiction, essays, short stories, and poetry. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have been adopted into the core literature curriculum in schools throughout the nation. Since 2004, Barbara and her family have lived on a farm in southern Appalachia, where they raise an extensive vegetable garden and Icelandic sheep. Barbara believes her best work is accomplished through writing and being an active citizen of her own
community.