Author Event: Ramona Ausubel

Come by The Reading Room on Wednesday, June 3 at 7 pm for a special night with award-winning author Ramona Ausubel as she discusses her new book Unstuck: 101 Doorways Leading from the First page to the Last Page. The evening will include a brief reading, conversation led by CT author Lara Ehrlich (author of Animal Wife & Bind Me Tighter Still, and founder of Thought Fox Writer’s Den), Q&A session, and book signing. Be sure to register in advance at this link if you’re interested in purchasing a book at the event, as supplies are limited!

Unstuck: 101 Doorways Leading from the Blank Page to the Last Page is about staying in love with your writing: feeling excited, mischievous, productive, and hopeful—the opposite of being stuck. Ramona Ausubel offers 101 exercises that promise to welcome you back to the page again and again; to reinvigorate your process and help you see your writing through to the end. Full of personal stories and hard-earned wisdom of a veteran writer, Unstuck is written in the first person, human to human, writer to writer. Practical, clear, and welcoming, Unstuck offers immediately useable strategies for beginning, continuing, and finishing a piece of writing.
Organized into doorways and keys, Unstuck turns problems into possibilities, offers keys to put into use right now, all designed to lead the writer back to the art, not toward an outside idea or formula. With Ausubel’s steady, encouraging advice—find your doorway, unlock the lock, and get writing again.

Ramona Ausubel grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where she won the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Fiction. Her newest novel, The Last Animal, received a Science + Literature Prize from the National Book Foundation and was a National Bestseller and a Barnes & Noble monthly pick.
Ausubel is the winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She has also been a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, California and Colorado Book Awards and long-listed for the Story Prize, Frank O’Connor International Story Award, and the International Impac Dublin Literary Award and New York Times Notable Book selections.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, The New York Times, NPR’s Selected Shorts, One Story, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, The Oxford American, The Best American Fantasy and online in The Paris Review.
Ramona Ausubel has taught at Tin House, The Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, The Community of Writers, Writing by Writers, the Low-Residency MFA programs at the Institute of American Indian Arts and Bennington. She is a professor at Colorado State University.