Book Club - James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg, Fla. (virtual) 11:45 am ET

MYTHWESTERNERS - How can folklore help us see truths beneath the surface of Midwestern history? Each of these authors challenge the validity of local legends and use them to dig deeper into self and societal understanding. You'll recognize their sense of place and think more about what it means to live in the middle of the country, with all its complications.

Featuring authors Erika Bolstad, Taylor Byas, Bonnie Jo Campbell and moderator Tina Casagrand Foss

Join us for an evening honoring Oregon’s most accomplished writers in the categories of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, young readers, and graphic literature. This year’s ceremony will be hosted by Kwame Alexander.

Please join me at 5 p.m. PT to celebrate the paperback launch of Windfall. Register for the event at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lcOCurzMiGtPswrd3QfR8zQbCGHQHNP6h

Reading at Magers and Quinn, Minneapolis, Minn.

Reading at The Bookworm of Edwards.

Kansas City Public Library’s Heartland Book Festival - panel featuring authors whose work blends memoir and history.

See Erika’s film, TO BE RICH, on the big screen at Cinema 21 in Portland, Oregon!

Find tickets here: https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/20991?siteToken=02fhxgcv98zq7pswjm69s8n9tc

Little Mo Tour is a series of literary outreach activities designed to meet people in their communities and whet their interest in community discussions of literary texts and creative expression. The purpose of the program is to provide a venue for interested individuals to seek mentorship and hone their craft through learning opportunities and writing workshops offered by Humanities North Dakota. Please register in advance.

Little Mo Tour is a series of literary outreach activities designed to meet people in their communities and whet their interest in community discussions of literary texts and creative expression. The purpose of the program is to provide a venue for interested individuals to seek mentorship and hone their craft through learning opportunities and writing workshops offered by Humanities North Dakota. Please register in advance.

Little Mo Tour is a series of literary outreach activities designed to meet people in their communities and whet their interest in community discussions of literary texts and creative expression. The purpose of the program is to provide a venue for interested individuals to seek mentorship and hone their craft through learning opportunities and writing workshops offered by Humanities North Dakota. Please register in advance.

Little Mo Tour is a series of literary outreach activities designed to meet people in their communities and whet their interest in community discussions of literary texts and creative expression. The purpose of the program is to provide a venue for interested individuals to seek mentorship and hone their craft through learning opportunities and writing workshops offered by Humanities North Dakota. Please register in advance.

Little Mo Tour is a series of literary outreach activities designed to meet people in their communities and whet their interest in community discussions of literary texts and creative expression. The purpose of the program is to provide a venue for interested individuals to seek mentorship and hone their craft through learning opportunities and writing workshops offered by Humanities North Dakota. Please register in advance.

Little Mo Tour is a series of literary outreach activities designed to meet people in their communities and whet their interest in community discussions of literary texts and creative expression. The purpose of the program is to provide a venue for interested individuals to seek mentorship and hone their craft through learning opportunities and writing workshops offered by Humanities North Dakota. Please register in advance.

This will be the first public screening of To Be Rich, the short film based on Windfall. The film and an author talk are at Bud Werner Memorial Library, located at 1289 Lincoln Ave. in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

In conversation with novelist Nancy Horan, the author of Loving Frank. Horan’s new novel, The House of Lincoln, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator.

Book signing at Books on Broadway in Williston, North Dakota.

Book signing at Main Street Books, Minot.

Book signing at Ferguson Books, 300 Sheyenne Street, West Fargo, ND 58078

Independent Bookstore Day! 3-5 p.m. Saturday, April 29, Ferguson Books, Bismarck, ND

Book signing with Ferguson Books, Dickinson ND

Reading and book signing at Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane, Washington.

Environmental Journalist, Filmmaker and Author Erika Bolstad shares with us her new biography/memoir Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her, which explores the compelling mystery surrounding the disappearance of her Great Grandmother, Anna, in the early 1900s.  Just before Erika's mother dies, she reveals that Erica will inherit a plot of land in North Dakota, once owned by Anna. She is shocked to discover that the land includes a grant of mineral rights in a region experiencing an oil boom.  Erika it seems will soon receive an income from the very fossil fuel she has spent her life opposing. Almost nothing is known about her great grandmother and her name suddenly vanishes from the historical record in 1905, never to be mentioned again. 

Perplexed, Erika turns her investigative skills to uncovering her great-grandmother’s life and uncovers the unsettling truth about Anna's disappearance. Erika shares Anna's story with great empathy and shows how her fate is tied into the larger history of the great plains – the decades of environmental exploitation culminating in the discovery of oil; genocide of the indigenous inhabitants, the plight of women in the 1800s mid-west, and the cycle of boon and bust the settlers endured trying to eke out a living under the great expanse of sky. 

Coffee and Books with Rediscovered Books - at the Esther Simplot Center.

Reading with Pine Meadow Ranch & Paulina Springs Books

Book Signing at Roundabout Books.

Reading at the Monmouth Public Library.

Reading at Third Place Books - Ravenna location.

Powell’s - Launch Day Event with Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State.