Gary Schmidt and Heather Bouwman - Readings and book signing

**No admission is required to attend this event at Dow Gardens ** Please enter Dow Gardens and make your way to "The Barn".

GARY SCHMIDT’S recent middle-grade and young adult novels include Orbiting Jupiter (2015); Pay Attention, Carter Jones (2019); Just Like That (2021); and The Labors of Hercules Beal (2023). This coming year sees the publication of A Little Bit Super (2024), stories co-edited with Leah Henderson; and A Day at the Beach (2024), thirty short stories written with Ron Koertge. He lives on an almost 200-year-old farm in Alto, Michigan, where he splits wood, plants gardens, and writes.

H.M. BOUWMAN is the author of middle-grade fantasy and historical fantasy novels, including A Crack in the Sea, and most recently, Gossamer Summer. Heather grew up in and attended college in Michigan, and she now lives with her family in Minnesota, where she is a Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas. The feline is Gossamer Summer is her actual, terrible, wonderful cat. For more, see: www.hmbouwman.com