Event Details
Join Boise City Writers-in-Residence Kim Cross and Dan Zancanella, along with Idaho Writer-in-Residence Mitch Wieland, for an evening of readings and conversation. Hear excerpts from their work and learn about their experiences as writers-in-residence during a lively panel discussion. Free admission, all ages welcome—plus drinks, pizza, and patio seating at Lost Grove!
This event will be on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at 7:00 PM at Lost Grove, 1026 South La Pointe Street, Boise, Idaho, 83706.
About the Writers
Kim Cross is a New York Times best-selling author, journalist, and historian known for cinematic scenes, page-turning narratives, and character-driven stories that guide readers through some complex, nuanced issue. Her first book, What Stands in a Storm, was one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2015 and a finalist in the GoodReads Choice Awards. Her most recent book, In Light of All Darkness, was an Edgar Award finalist and winner of the Truman Capote Prize for Distinguished Work of Non-Fiction. Cross teaches feature writing for Harvard Extension School’s graduate program in journalism, the Larry McMurtry Literary Center in Archer City, Texas, and the Sawtooth Writing Retreat in Idaho. Find her at kimhcross.com, @kimhcross, or writing at Oldspeak in Garden City.
Don Zancanella is the author of three novels: CONCORD, A STORM IN THE STARS, and ANIMALS OF THE ALPINE FRONT. He received the John S. Simmons/Iowa Short Fiction Award for his book WESTERN ELECTRIC and has won an O.Henry Prize. Zancanella was born in Laramie, Wyoming, and has lived in Virginia, Colorado, Missouri, and New Mexico, where he taught at the University of New Mexico for nearly three decades. He lives in southeast Boise with his wife and their dogs.
Mitch Wieland is the author of the novels Willy Slater’s Lane and God’s Dogs. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist, been praised by The New York Times and Kirkus Reviews, and named Idaho Book of the Year and optioned for a film. God’s Dogs was a top six finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. His short stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, and twenty other top literary journals. His work has also appeared in the anthologies, The Best of the West and Hello, I Love You: Stories of Romance.
Cost
Free admission, all ages welcome!