Jayne Moore Waldrop, a lawyer and the author of “Drowned Town” and other books, will be the guest speaker for the Round Table Reading Series Lecture at noon Wednesday, March 14, at Hopkinsville Community College.
“Drowned Town,” published in 2021 by the University Press of Kentucky’s Fireside Industries imprint, a partnership with Hindman Settlement School, was named an INDIES Fiction Book of the Year silver award winner.
Other books by Waldrop include “Retracing My Steps,” a finalist for New Women’s Voices Poetry Chapbook Series, and “Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems.”
Waldrop lives in Lexington. She earned her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Kentucky and the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Murray State University.
Waldrop will read from her work. The lecture will be in the Anderson Room at HCC’s Emerging Technologies Building. There is no charge to attend. The public is invited. A lunch will be provided.
For more information, contact HCC English Professor Elizabeth Burton at 270-707-3887.
