Barbara Kingsolver, acclaimed author and recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will speak at UVA Wise in April.

The Center for Appalachia Studies at UVA Wise is sponsoring the speaking engagement at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, at the College’s David J. Prior Convocation Center. The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required and there will not be a book signing.

Kingsolver won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her book, “Demon Copperhead.” The book is set in nearby Lee County at the onset of the opioid epidemic, and is a modern interpretation of Charles Dickens' “David Copperfield.”