West - DMR - Boulder - Author Lunch and Learn - 2026

Join Boulder for a book talk featuring R. L. Maizes, local author. She will discuss her latest book, A Complete Fiction. Bring your lunch and we'll provide coffee and tea.

General Registration: $18 • Keepers Registration: $4
A Keeper is an annual donor with a commitment of $1,000+.

R.L. Maizes is the author of A Complete Fiction, out now from Ig Publishing. Her debut novel, Other People’s Pets, won the 2021 Colorado Book Award in Fiction and was a Library Journal Best Debut of Summer/Fall 2020. She also is the author of the short story collection, We Love Anderson Cooper. Her short stories have aired on National Public Radio and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O Magazine, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and have aired on NPR. She is a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and the recipient of a Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for 2024–2025 for her novel-in-progress.

Maizes was born in Queens, New York, and lives in Boulder County, Colorado, with her husband, Steve, and her muses: Rosie, a dog who spent her first year homeless in South Dakota and thinks Colorado is downright balmy, and the ghost of Arie the Cat.

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