Inkberry Books: July 11th at 7:00

STORIES,"sweeping and intimate and awesomely confident." Publishers Weekly named NIGHT IN ERG CHEBBI a "memorable read from a writer with considerable talent." About Hamlin's debut novel, National Book Award finalist Ben Fountain said: "SONATA IN WAX is a terrific novel--immersive, compelling, smart, the story propelled by a cast of complex, full-bodied characters and the author's absolute mastery of the musical worlds he conjures...I'm knocked flat with admiration for this splendid novel." Kirkus Reviews called it "a deeply realized tale of the power of music and the anonymity of history."

Since 2012 Edward Hamlin has published more than twenty-five stories in Ploughshares, Missouri Review, Colorado Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Chariton, the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere, garnering three Pushcart Prize nominations along the way. His work has been shortlisted twice for the Bridport Prize (UK) and has been a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Grace Paley Award, the Narrative Story Prize, the Raymond Carver Award and others. Stories of his have also been performed on stage and published by Audible.

A New York native and an accomplished composer, Edward Hamlin spent his formative years in Chicago and now lives in the Colorado foothills. He is represented by Deborah Schneider of Gelfman-Schneider/ICM.

Inkberry Books: July 18th at 7:00 PM

Let the game begin.

The opening move is murder.

In a downtown alley, a man has been found nearly cleaved in two, a symbol drawn on his forehead and a savage rip in his throat. Given the clues, Evan sees a parallel to a fearsome Greek myth. Which means his friend Detective Addie Bisset is on the trail of a legendary flesh-eating monster--one terrifyingly human and tumbling a panicked city toward chaos.

Evan, Addie, and River scramble to discover who's behind the appalling crimes and decipher the baffling motives. The body count is rising. The endgame is nowhere in sight. And the stakes are nothing less than life and death.

Her latest novel, A Voice in the Dark, will drop on July 1, 2026.

Inkberry Books: July 31st at 7:00 PM

Through storytelling from decades of research and field work at Colorado State University, Ecologist Mark Easter's award-winning capstone work, The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos, offers a detailed picture of the climate impact of the foods you love, with concrete, simple approaches to reducing, and even erasing, those impacts. The book's rich, accessible writing elevated The Blue Plate to become a 2025 James Beard and Colorado Book Award finalist, and an IMDB Gold Medal Winner.
Organized by the ingredients of a typical dinner party, including seafood, salad, bread, chicken, steak, potatoes, and fruit pie with ice cream, each chapter examines the food through the lens of the climate crisis. Not a cookbook, but instead, gathered like guests around the table, you will find the stories of these foods: The soil that grew the lettuce; the farmers, ranchers and orchardists who steward the land; the grocers and workers at dairies and farms who labor to bring food to the table. Each chapter reveals the causes and effects of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the social and environmental impacts of the demand for out-of-season and far-from-home foods.
What can you do to eat more sustainably, and feel good about your daily meals? For each food group, Easter offers not recipes but low-carbon, in-season alternatives that make your favorite foods both more sustainable, and delicious. The first steps are in understanding of how food is grown, produced, harvested, and shipped. In stories both personal and entertaining, the author offers a full understanding of what's for dinner.

Mark is an ecologist and greenhouse gas accountant who has researched the carbon emissions from food, forestry, fiber and water in academia and private industry for more than twenty-five years. He spent much of his career working with farmers, ranchers, foresters and scientists around the world, researching how historical and modern agriculture contributed to the warming climate, and identifying both new and old farming and ranching methods that not only reduce the dangerous climate emissions behind our daily plates of food, but reverse those emissions wherever possible by drawing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere back into the Earth's ecosystems.
Mark is a long-time resident of Fort Collins, CO and spent most of his work career at Colorado State University until retiring in 2023, where he continues working as an affiliate scientist. He loves to read, work in his garden, cook, hike, backcountry ski, and spend time with his family.

Inkberry Books: August 1st at 7:00 PM

Making matters more complicated, threats are coming from the Pine Ridge 705a street gang from a neighboring reservation who want to expand their reach into Rosebud--and Mitch Gagnon, a shady politician who will stop at nothing to gain more power.

With a heated tribal council election looming, as well as new revelations regarding past injustices at the local Native boarding school, the stakes grow even higher. Will Virgil find the justice he's seeking before it's too late?

David Heska Wanbli Weiden, whose writing "melds the gritty realism of Dashiell Hammett with the lyricism of Tommy Orange" (O, The Oprah Magazine), once again brings us a tour de force of crime fiction--and an expansive look at Native American life in a shifting world.

and named by Time magazine as one of the 100 best mystery and thriller novels of all time.

His short fiction appears in the anthologies The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022, Never Whistle at Night, Denver Noir, and others. His nonfiction appears in the New York Times, Shenandoah, Alta, Poets & Writers, and other books and journals. He was Indigenous Artist in Residence at Brown University and has received fellowships from PEN America, MacDowell, Ucross, Ragdale, Sewanee, and Tin House. He's Professor of English and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Stony Brook University in New York.

August 7, 2026

6:00 - 8:00

Opening and Reception

Artist Marian Hoffman Ting

ARTIST STATEMENT

Marian Hoffman Ting graduated from the Ivy school of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has worked in the medium of collage for over 40 years. She is a signature member of the National Collage Society. Her work is part of the NCS teaching collection in the School of Art at Kent State University. She has exhibited at Inkberry Books as well as nationally and Internationally.