Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series: Brian Castner
Brian Castner hiking the Chilkoot Trail.
The UAF English Department will host a Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series event with nonfiction author and veteran Brian Castner this Thursday, April 14.
Castner will give a craft talk on UAF’s campus at 4 p.m. in Gruening 402. He will also be giving a reading, interview, and Q&A later at 7 p.m. at the Centennial Center Exhibit Hall in Pioneer Park. This latter event will be moderated by Chris Miles, a fellow poet and veteran.
Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former explosive ordnance disposal officer, and veteran of the Iraq War. His most recent book is “Stampede,” a new history of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. He is also the bestselling author of “Disappointment River,” “All the Ways We Kill and Die,” and the war memoir “The Long Walk,” which was adapted into an opera and named a New York Times Editor’s Pick and Amazon Best Book of the Year. His journalism and essays have appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, Esquire, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and on National Public Radio.
The event is a collaboration between Fairbanks Arts Association, 49 Writers, and UAF's Midnight Sun Visiting Writers series. This event is made possible by a grant to 49 Writers from the AV̳ Humanities Forum and is part of the 49 Writers Crosscurrents program. Crosscurrents unite authors and audiences through lively discussions on a wide range of themes related to writers and their work.
with the Fairbanks Arts Association. The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Michael Kay at mrkay@alaska.edu.