Author Talk: Iris Underwood

Join us for an evening with Michigan Journalist and Author, Iris Underwood as we discuss her book, Matawan Garden Club!

Matewan Garden Club spans three generations and a multitude of dreams amongst the tight-knit West Virginia immigrant coal camps and towns along Tug Fork: Matewan, Williamson, Blackberry City, Red Jacket, Thacker Holler, and countless hollers in between. Like Tug River’s many tributaries, these communities converge in Matewan to build enduring love amid the business of native flora and fauna—seedlings that bloom in the hard times of the Bolshevik Revolution, impoverished post–WWI Europe, Depression-era America, and beyond.

Kentucky-born Iris Lee Underwood is a Michigan-based journalist, poet, and author, past president of Detroit Working Writers, and former writer in residence at the Troy Public Library. She writes an award-winning weekly column, “Honest Living,” for Tri-City Times (Imlay City), and her bylines have appeared in MacGuffin, Farming Magazine, Michigan Gardener, edibleWOW, Michigan History, and many metro Detroit and Kentucky-area newspapers.