Please join Zon Canyon Mesa, Zion Forever and Torrey House Press for “Creative Tensions: Wild Words & Wild Places,” an interactive community conversation with Kase Johnstun, Laura Tohe, and Kirsten Johanna Allen. Using a format known as “creative tensions,” host Kase Johnstun will lead participants Laura Tohe and Kirsten Johanna Allen, as well as the audience, through this unique approach to group dialogue. Creative Tensions encourages openness and inspires empathy as we explore topics that lie at the heart of what it means to be human.

Laura Tohe is the Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and an award-winning poet. Her books include “No Parole Today,” “Making Friends with Water,” “Sister Nations,” “Tséyi/Deep in the Rock,” and “Code Talker Stories.”

Kase Johnstun is a novelist and essayist who lives and writes in Ogden, Utah. His novels “Let the Wild Grasses Grow” (October 2021) and “Cast Away” (coming in 2024) are published by Torrey House Press. He teaches at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, the Graduate School in Creative Writing for Southern New Hampshire University, Barton Community College, and Weber State University.

Kirsten Johanna Allen is the Publisher and Co-Executive Director of Torrey House Press. Since co-founding THP in 2010, Kirsten has published more than 70 fiction and nonfiction titles and continues to oversee acquisitions, editing, production, and marketing.rite something here

Here’s a link to a creative tensions event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MttYjJil68