Events

Mon 6/11 7pm-8pm Local Author Jamie Forbes reads from her novel Unbroken Ranching is a life of extremes, perhaps even more so on the high plains near Laramie, Wyoming. And no one knows that better than Gwen Swan, who married both her husband Will and his family ranch where she works hard beside the men and struggles to raise her two children. Unbroken is the winner of the 2011 WILLA Literary Award for outstanding contemporary fiction featuring women in the West. Jamie Forbes was raised on a family ranch in southeastern Wyoming. She obtained degrees in Philosophy and English from the University of Colorado, Boulder where she graduated with honors in 1977.  She then spent a year in Israel studying and working on a kibbutz.  She returned to Wyoming in 1979 where she ranched and raised a family for the next fifteen years.  In 2001, she graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law and now practices in Greensboro, North Carolina.  She enjoys spending time with her three grandsons and playing old time Appalachian fiddle.  With her Arabian horse, Cody and her cattle dog, Reb, she still devotes part of her life to the outdoors.