Join us for Wes Blake in conversation with Julie Hensley discussing and signing Pineville Trace.

Wes Blake’s fiction and essays have appeared in Louisiana Literature Journal, Blood & Bourbon, Book of Matches, Jelly Bucket, White Wall Review, and elsewhere. His novella, Pineville Trace, won the Etchings Press Book Prize at the University of Indianapolis. Lee Martin, author of the Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Bright Forever, described him as "a writer to watch." His novel, Antenna, was a semifinalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize. He holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writers Studio. He lives in Kentucky.

Julie Hensley is an Appalachian writer and core faculty member of the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University, where she teaches both fiction and poetry. She has been awarded fellowships from Jentel Arts, Yaddo, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Hypatia-in-the-Woods, and the Tyrone Guthrie Center. Her poems and stories have appeared in dozens of journals, including Image: Art, Faith Mystery, The Southern Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, Blueline, Mom Egg Review, and Willow Springs. She is the author of a collection of poems, Viable (Five Oaks Press 2015), and a book of fiction, Landfall: A Ring of Stories (Ohio State University Press 2016), as well as two poetry chapbooks, The Language of Horses (Finishing Line Press 2011) and Real World (Artist Thrive 2019). Her new novel, Five Oaks, is forthcoming in Spring 2024.