Montana Book Festival 2017

Carol Blake wore many hats before moving to Montana from California twenty-five years ago. As a real estate broker in California and Montana for 35 years, she juggled property sales while cultivating a commercial avocado grove and flower plantation. Developing property has always... Read More →

Rita Collins obviously likes being on the road. She has lived in nine state and three countries. After years teaching everything from elementary students in a rural school to graduate students in a large urban university, she recently started a traveling bookstore. St. Rita's Amazing... Read More →

Jan JarrellJan Keessen Jarrell earned her Ph.D. in American Literature at the University of Chicago where she was the Norman Maclean scholar. She retired recently as Professor of English at Augustana College where she also wrote and narrated word histories for WVIK, the college's... Read More →