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DESCRIPTION:Award winning author Karen Palmer in conversation with Tod Gold
 berg.\n\n\nFor over two decades\, Karen Palmer\, her new husband\, and her
  children lived under fake names\, with invented histories\, and an uncert
 ain futures\, all in order to escape Palmer's dangerous ex-husband. Now\, 
 in her amazing and internationally acclaimed memoir She's Under Here\, Pal
 mer details her life on the run and the steps she took to protect her fami
 ly. Hailed as one of the best books of the year by NPR and the Sunday (Lon
 don) Times\, Los Angeles Times called the memoir "intense and intensely ob
 served\," while the Washington Post celebrated it's taut and thrilling sto
 rytelling. For one night only\, she'll be here in the desert to dive deep 
 into this startling true story.\n\n \n\nTuesday February 17\, 2026\n\n6 P.
 M.\n\nUCR Palm Desert Auditorium\n\n75080 Frank Sinatra Dr.\n\nPalm Desert
 \, CA 92211\n\n \n\nBIOS\n\nKaren Palmer has received grants from the NEA 
 and the Colorado Council on the Arts. She's Under Here grew out of her awa
 rd-winning essay The Reader Is the Protagonist\, first published in Virgin
 ia Quarterly Review and selected by Leslie Jamison for inclusion in Best A
 merican Essays 2017. She is the author of the novels All Saints and Border
  Dogs. More recently her short story Birds of Paradise won the 2022 Emily 
 Clark Balch Prize for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus\, Th
 e Kenyon Review\, Arts & Letters\, and Kalliope\, among others.She current
 ly teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver\, CO\, and lives with 
 her husband in California. (more)\n\n \n\nTod Goldberg is the New York Tim
 es bestselling author of sixteen books\, including the acclaimed "Gangster
 land" quartet — "Gangsterland\," "Gangster Nation\," "The Low Desert: Ga
 ngster Stories" and "Gangsters Don’t Die" — which have been published 
 in a dozen countries and have won or have been a finalist for the Hammett 
 Prize\, the Southwest Book of the Year\, the Strand Critics Award\, the Re
 ading the West Award\, the International Thriller of the Year and many mor
 e. His previous books include "Living Dead Girl\," a finalist for the Los 
 Angeles Times Book Prize\, "The House of Secrets\," which he wrote with Br
 ad Meltzer\, and the anthology "Eight Very Bad Nights\," a finalist for th
 e Anthony Award. His short fiction and essays appear widely and have been 
 honored with selection in Best American Mystery & Suspense and Best Americ
 an Essays. Tod is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Cal
 ifornia\, Riverside where he founded and directs the Low Residency MFA in 
 Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts. His next book\, "Only 
 Way Out\," will be released in December 2025 from Thomas & Mercer. (more)
LOCATION:Palm Desert Center\, Auditorium
SUMMARY:Arts and Letters: Karen Palmer
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