Leyna Krow to sign books at NIC

The North Idaho College Writing Center’s visiting writer series is set to host Leyna Krow, author of “Fire Season.”

The reading and book signing starts at noon Feb. 7 at the Writing Center in the Lee Hall Annex on NIC’s main campus in Coeur d’Alene. The event is free and open to the public.

"Fire Season," a novel, is a first for Krow, who is known for her short stories.

In a summer 2022 interview with Spokane Public Radio's Doug Nadvornick, Krow described the book.

“The book is set in 1889 here in Spokane, which at the time was called Spokane Falls and, that year, Spokane suffered a devastating fire in downtown, but three other cities in Washington Territory also suffered devastating urban fires. And it was a super-hot summer and there were wildfires that were very close to the city as well, so I was thinking of it as the whole season," Krow said.

A fictional tale, with a very few references to real people and places, there are three main characters.

"It’s a story of how this fire happens and then these three people take this opportunity to change themselves as the environment around them changes," Krow said.

Krow is also the author of the short story collection and Believer Book Award finalist “I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking.”

The Spokane author’s next book “Sinkhole and Other Inexplicable Voids” is scheduled for release in 2023.

For information, contact NIC associate professor of English Jonathan Frey at jonathan.frey@nic.edu or (208) 769-3337.