Author Laura Chow Reeve will visit ISU. Chow Reeve’s visit is sponsored by ISU’s Department of English and Philosophy and by Black Rock and Sage, ISU’s student journal of creative works.

At 5 p.m. in Historic Downtown Pocatello’s Valentine Ballroom (100 S. Arthur), Chow Reeve will read from her acclaimed debut short story collection, A Small Apocalypse, followed by a Q&A session. The reading is free and the public is encouraged to attend; an adult audience is recommended. Book sales and signing will follow.

Exploring “cultural inheritance, hybridity, and queerness” (Triquarterly Books), the Florida-centered stories of A Small Apocalypse move between fantasy and realism, often following a specific group of friends. The characters navigate various hauntings, human-to-reptilian transformations, hurricanes, and dystopian dating websites in “stories that explore what it means to buck the status quo amid suspicion of—or hostility toward—anything different” (Kirkus Reviews). A Small Apocalypse was named a best…