Join The Cabin and the Boise State MFA program for an intimate evening with authors Kristen Arnett and Stephanie Reents, in conversation, on Thursday, October 9, 2026, at The Linen Building (1402 W Grove St, Boise, ID 83702).
About the Authors
Kristen Arnett is the queer Floridian author of the novels Stop Me if You’ve Heard this One (Riverhead Books, 2025) which was longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize, With Teeth (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction, and the New York Times bestselling debut Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She runs the substack “Dad Lessons.” Her work has appeared at The New York Times, TIME, Vogue, The Cut, Oprah Magazine, PBS Newshour, The Guardian, Salon, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Her upcoming short fiction collection, Party at the End of the World, will be published by Riverhead Books. She has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University and lives in Orlando, Florida.
Stephanie Reents is the author of The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and I Meant to Kill Ye, a biblio-memoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Her new book, We Loved to Run, is forthcoming from Hogarth/Penguin Random House in August 2025. She has twice received an O. Henry Prize for her short fiction. Reents received a BA from Amherst College, where she ran on the cross country team all four years; a BA from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; and an MFA from the University of Arizona. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Tickets
Tickets are $12 each.