CSAW award-winning author Podmore to speak Dec. 11 at WT
The award-winning author of a book on hope in the face of water scarcity will discuss his work Thursday, Dec. 11 at a special event for West Texas A&M University’s Center for the Study of the American West on the WT campus in Canyon.
Zak Podmore will speak at 6 p.m. Dec. 11 in the atrium of Cornette Library. Admission is free.
The first 10 arrivals will receive a free copy of Podmore’s book, “Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell’s Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River,” which was named the winner of CSAW’s 2025 Bonney MacDonald Award for Outstanding Western Book in October. Additional copies will be available for purchase through Burrowing Owl Books.
A Q&A will be held at the Dec. 11 event, and Podmore will sign copies of his book.
In his book, Podmore, “an award-winning author and journalist who has written about water and conservation issues for more than a decade, explores the history and future of Lake Powell, a reservoir controversially created in 1963 in Utah and Arizona when the Glen Canyon Dam was constructed and flooded the eponymous canyon,” according to a WT news release.
CSAW has given the Bonney McDonald Outstanding Western Book Award annually since 2019.
“I am thrilled that the Bonney MacDonald Award committee chose a book that speaks to the most essential issue facing all Westerners — water scarcity,” Dr. Alex Hunt, CSAW director, Regents Professor of English and Vincent-Haley Professor of Western Studies, said when the award was announced. “I am all the more pleased because Podmore’s approach to the serious problems facing us is one that points to a hopeful future rather than leaving us in the dry lakebed of despair.”
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