2008 Speakers
Haven Kimmel
A poet, novelist, and memoirist, Haven Kimmel was raised in Mooreland, Indiana, the locus of her bestselling memoir, A Girl Named Zippy (2001). Kimmel studied English and creative writing as a graduate student at North Carolina State University and attended seminary at the Earlham School of Religion. Her books The Solace of Leaving Early (2002) and Something Rising (2004) are the first two novels in Kimmel's planned “trilogy of place” about fictional Hopwood County, Indiana. The third book, The Used World, was published in September of 2007. Kimmel lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Speaker Links
Karen Campbell from the Boston Globe reviews Haven's latest novel, The Used World.
Read Denise Gess's review of The Used World in the News and Observer.
Visit amazon.com to learn more about Kimmel's children's book Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House.
Read an interview with Kimmel about her book A Girl Named Zippy.
Bob Minzesheimer from USA Today reviews Something Rising.
Read an excerpt from Kimmel's book A Girl Named Zippy.
Listen to Kimmel's reading of her short story "That Old Time Religion."
The blog “Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast” conducts an interview with Kimmel.