Author Talk: Nicole Cushing

Fulton County Public Library Rochester Branch is hosting a talk by award-winning author Nicole Cushing 12-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, in Meeting Room B. This event is free and open to the public.

Cushing, a 2024 Indiana Authors Awards honoree, was described by IAA as a “writer of dark, weird fiction (often accompanied with a side dish of humor). Based in southeastern Indiana, many of her books evoke the grim strangeness of Midwestern life.”

Her 2015 debut “Mr. Suicide” won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her novellas “Children of No One” and “The Sadist’s Bible” received nominations for the Shirley Jackson Award. Her novel “A Sick Gray Laugh” was named to LitReactor’s Ten Best Horror Novels of the Last Decade list and the Locus Recommended Reading List.

Her latest novel, “The Plastic Priest,” offers an “excursion into the weird, an eerie tale of an Episcopal priest in small-town Indiana, and her struggles with fate and faith.”

This event is made possible by a grant from IAA and Indiana Humanities.

To register, email dhazledine@fulco.lib.in.us or call (574) 223-1008. FCPL is located at 320 W. 7^th St., Rochester.