Author and former College of the Redwoods student, Margot Genger, will be visiting CR on Friday, March 6 from 7-8pm in room HU 110.

Genger’s book Shift Happens – Breakdowns During Life’s Long Hauls is the story of her life as a long-haul truck driver who struggles with mental illness and alcoholism. “Her tales of weird and wild characters, intimidating locations, robberies, and breakdowns are worthy of a picaresque novel” says Kircus Reviews. “The overall result is, by turns, an emotionally intuitive memoir and a rip-roaring American road story in the Jack Kerouac tradition – one with a valiant protagonist that readers will root for.”

Genger’s poems have been published in HSUs Toyon, HSUs Poems from the Pocket, North Coast View, and the California Association for the Gifted Quarterly.  You can find her chapbooks Middle Chapter and Before Water Falls in the Humboldt County Library. 

Doors open at 6:30pm. Copies of her book will be available for purchase, and the event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Professor David Holper at 476-4370 or email david-holper@redwoods.edu

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