Saturday, June 24: Montana author Caroline Patterson reads from her collection of stories, Ballet at the Moose Lodge. 1pm.

“Caroline Patterson writes with grace and grit, stories that light up both the real Montana landscape and the imagined. She is a savvy and gleeful interpreter of the lightning-strike epiphanies that comprise our daily lives.” -- Susanna Sonnenberg, author of She Matters: A Life in Friendships

Caroline Patterson makes her home in Missoula, Montana, with her husband, writer Fred Haefele, and her two college-aged children, Phoebe and Tobin. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is the executive director of the Missoula Writing Collaborative.