The manuscript of Mary Beath’s novel Paradox Valley was a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction sponsored by Barbara Kingsolver. The book is set in the high desert of southwest Colorado where a New York installation artist visits her family’s original homestead for the first time, only to run headlong into a new cycle of boom-and-bust uranium mining and milling. Mary Beath’s poetry collection, Refuge of Whirling Light, won the Wrangler Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the Spur and Willa Awards. Her collection of personal essays, Hiking Alone: Trails Out, Trails Home won the Zia Chair Award from New Mexico Press Women. She lives in Albuquerque, NM.
A Reading and Conversation with Mary Beath
