Words in the Garden featuring Susan Kraus and Jane Elzey

“Words in the Garden” is a weekly, alfresco literary reading series from the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) and the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library.  Every Wednesday through the summer at 4:30 pm, a local and/or visiting WCDH writer-in-residence will present a reading and Q&A in the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library Garden at 188 Spring Street (south of the Carnegie Library Gardens Building). The readings are free and open to all. In the event of rain, they will be held in the library garden under the tent. Wednesday, June 30, will feature Susan Kraus, a writer-in-residence from Kansas, and local writer Jane Elzey.

Susan Kraus has been a therapist and mediator for decades, helping people re-write the narratives of their lives. In her novels, genre-bending blends of thriller, mystery and women’s fiction, she tackles polarizing social and political issues through the POV of a middle-aged female protagonist (a therapist/mediator who…