Clemson Libraries to host reading by new author, Katy Goforth

Clemson Libraries will host a reading with new author and Clemson alumna Katy Goforth on Thursday, February 20, at 5:30 p.m. in the Byrnes Room of the R.M. Cooper Library. Goforth will read from her debut book “Anchored,” a collection of short stories and other prose pieces. The event will also be available online via Zoom.

Goforth, a native of Spartanburg, graduated from Clemson in 1999 with a bachelor’s in speech and communications and in 2001 with a master’s degree in professional communication. She is a writer and editor for a national engineering and surveying organization in Greenville. Her writing has appeared in Brevity, Reckon Review, Cowboy Jamboree, Salvation Southand other journals. She is Pushcart, Best American Short Stories, and Best Small Fictions nominated. Her novel, “Traveling Alone,”is forthcoming.

“Anchored” is published by Belle Point Press. It is a hybrid collection, part fiction, part memoir. From the publisher: “‘Anchored’ gathers a chorus of southern neighbors from pockets of rural America. Throughout these stories of potlucks, heartbreaks, and family bonds, Katy Goforth weaves an enchanted thread that reminds us how the people who shape us continue to share in the things that keep us home.”

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. The event is free and open to the public. Click here to register to attend.