Visiting Writers Reading Series: Sam Ligon & Kate Lebo

Samuel Ligon’s most recent novel “Miller Cane: A True and Exact History” was serialized for a year in Spokane’s weekly newspaper, The Inlander, as well as on Spokane Public Radio, before being published in revised and expanded form by Slant Books in 2026. Other published works include two novels, “Among the Dead and Dreaming” and “Safe in Heaven Dead,” and two collections of stories, “Wonderland,” illustrated by Stephen Knezovich, and “Drift and Swerve.”

Kate Lebo is an essayist, cookbook writer, and poet. Her first collection of nonfiction, “The Book of Difficult Fruit” (FSG, 2021), won the Washington State Book Award. Sasquatch Books released a revised and expanded edition of her cookbook “Pie School” in 2023. Other recent work includes the chapbook “Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers” (Entre Rios Books, 2018) and the anthology “Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze” (Sasquatch Books, 2017), which she edited with Samuel Ligon.