Celebrating Idaho Poets Ron McFarland & Georgia Tiffany

A Reading & Book Signing

Accomplished Idaho poets Ron McFarland and Georgia Tiffany will read from their new collections.

Idaho's first-ever Writer-in-Residence and University of Idaho Professor Emeritus Ron McFarland and celebrated poet Georgia Tiffany will read from their newly published poetry collections.

About Ron McFarland

Emeritus professor of English at the University of Idaho, where he taught nearly 50 years, Ron McFarland served two years as Idaho’s first state Writer-in-Residence in the mid-1980s. His thirty or so books range from six poetry chapbooks and booklets in the Western Writers Series on Norman Maclean and Tess Gallagher to his memoir of growing up in Cocoa, Florida, Confessions of a Night Librarian and Other Embarrassments; a biography of Colonel Edward J. Steptoe (2016); Appropriating Hemingway: Using Him as a Fictional Character; and most recently, Professor McFarland in Reel Time: Prose & Poems of an Angler (2020) and his fifth full-length book of poems, A Variable Sense of Things (2023). He played soccer with the UI men’s soccer club for more than twenty years and calls himself an avid, quasi-competent fly angler.

About Georgia Tiffany

Spokane native and Lewis and Clark High graduate, Georgia Tiffany, taught English, philosophy, humanities, and creative writing at Mead High School for sixteen years (as Mrs. Toppe). She holds graduate degrees from Indiana University and University of Idaho. She has served as a scholar for Idaho's "Let's Talk About It" library program, consultant for the Northwest Inland Writing Project, editor for InLand Journal, and board member for Spokane Interplayers Theatre. Her poems have appeared in a limited-edition chapbook, Cut from the Score, in anthologies including New Poets of the American West, and in scores of literary magazines including Willow Springs, Midwest Review, Chautauqua, South Carolina Quarterly, Rhino, Threepenny Review, and Calyx. Encircle Press published her book, Body Be Sound, in November 2023. She lives in Moscow, Idaho, where she writes and teaches piano.

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