Author Conversation with Cara Benson and Karen Terrey

Saturday October 10, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

Tahoe City Library
Tahoe, CA

Join poet, essayist, and storyteller Cara Benson for a discussion of her new memoir An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment with Karen Terrey, Nevada County Poet Laureate. Building on a long writing friendship that started in graduate school, this intimate conversation will explore questions of why a vulnerable and individual human voice matters in the evolving world of AI, how to discover the intersection of the larger planetary story within our personal lives, and methods for keeping our hearts in the game of manifesting change as we collectively take care of the more than human. Benson will also touch on the project of writing about her personal tragic loss, finding an agent, and ultimately a publisher for her memoir.