An evening with Carol Roh Spaulding | Friday, Nov. 10 at 7pm. Celebrate the release of Carol Roh Spaulding's Waiting for Mr. Kim.

Explore what it means to live at the intersection of "Asian" and "American" with Des Moines-based writer Carol Roh Spaulding. Her most recent work, Waiting for Mr. Kim, is a collection of interlinked stories following four generations of a Korean-American family as they live through the shifting definitions of "Americanness." 

Enjoy drinks and dessert (covered by your ticket) in Storyhouse before heading upstairs to Raygun to hear Carol read from her book and discuss her work. 

Carol Roh Spaulding's short stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, Nimrod International, Mississippi Review, December magazine, and many other publications. Her forthcoming novel, Helen Button, received the 2021 Eludia Award from Hidden River Arts. She received the 2022 Flannery O'Connor Award for the Short Story. She lives in Central Iowa with her family and teaches at Drake University in Des Moines.