During this program Emily Danforth talks about and reads from her debut novel, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, a story about growing up gay in Miles City.

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal, and was praised in the L.A. Times, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Stranger, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and NPR, whose reviewer called it "a skillfully and beautifully written story that does what the best books do: It shows us ourselves in the lives of others."

Emily Danforth has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana and a Ph.D in English-Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her short fiction has won the International Queer Writing Award from the U.K.'s Chroma Magazine, the George Garret Award from Willow Springs, and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her nonfiction has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and in The Huffington Post. She teaches creative writing and literature courses at Rhode Island College in Providence and is also 1/3 of the editorial/publishing staff of The Cupboard, a quarterly prose chapbook.

Emily Danforth was born and raised in Miles City, Montana, a town best known for its Bucking Horse Sale - which was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for hosting the most intoxicated people, per capita, of any US event.

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A review of The Miseducation of Cameron Post by NPR.

A review of The Miseducation of Cameron Post in the L.A. Times.

Look for The Miseducation of Cameron Post at Fact & Fiction in downtown Missoula and on the UM campus, or at your local independent bookseller.

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman. Executive producer, Michael Marsolek; studio engineer, Beth Anne Austein.

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