Writers Read Author Series 2025-26
Writers Read, sponsored by the Language and Literature Program, is a special event featuring authors who read from and comment on their work. Dates, times, and locations (map of EMU campus) are listed below.
Rebecca Kauffman, author of The Reservation
Thursday, March 19, at 7:00 p.m. in Martin Chapel
Rebecca Kauffman's sixth novel, The Reservation, is a restaurant-based mystery and a 2026 "Most Anticipated Book of the Year" from People Magazine, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Southern Living, and UK Vogue. A starred review in Publishers Weekly called The Reservation "a pitch-perfect mash-up of Clue and The Bear" and "a profound meditation on what it means to be connected." Kauffman received her MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is also the author of Another Place You've Never Been, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; The Gunners, which received the Premio Trubuk dei Librai; The House on Fripp Island; Chorus; and most recently, I'll come to You. Originally from rural northeastern Ohio, Kauffman now lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
