Author to give talk, host workshop at SNC

Author Shaun Griffin will give a free talk Feb. 3 as part of the Writers in the Wood Series at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village.

A long-time resident of Virginia City, he has taught poetry workshops in the Northern Nevada Correctional Center and is co-founder of the Community Chest, a nonprofit agency serving children and families in Northwestern Nevada.

Griffin wrote “Anthem for a Burnished Land,” “This is What the Desert Surrenders and Bathing in the River of Ashes,” and was editor of “From Sorrow’s Well,” a volume on the poet Hayden Carruth, among other works. 

The 7-9pm talk is free. Griffin will be putting on a workshop Feb. 4. To sign up, go online.