Sallie Bingham, Steve Fox and Lucy Herrman

All 2022 November Prose Month readings are free and donations are always welcome to support SOMOS’ literary programs.

Sallie Bingham is the author of fifteen books, including The Blue Box: Three Lives in Letters; Passion and Prejudice; and Mending: New & Selected Short Stories. She will read from her latest memoir, Little Brother, about her youngest brother’s tragic and truncated life.

Steve Fox is a writer and photographer born in Washington, D.C. who has lived in Taos for 21 years. He has a PhD in American Studies from UNM where he was awarded a two-year Fulbright Visiting Professorship in Germany. He last taught at UNM-Taos for eight years. He is the author of Toxic Work: Women Workers at GTE-Lenkurt and the memoir Odyssey: Love and Terror in Greece, 1969. He wrote and edited for the Horse Fly in Taos and wrote for NM News Service, which syndicated 125 of his columns statewide. He is married to the architectural designer Donna LeFurgey. They live in El Prado.

Lucy Herrman is a writer, poet, artist, and chef. Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines. In the 1970s, she founded and published the Chicago literary small press, Syncline. She currently writes the food column for the Taos News. Ms. Herrman lives in New Mexico with her husband, Dirk. They have two sons.

In 2011, while skiing in Colorado, Lucy Herrman’s husband Dirk suffered an aortic dissection, an almost-always fatal tearing of the lining of the aorta. Some well-known victims of aortic dissections include Richard Holbrooke, John Ritter, Alan Thicke, and Bill Paxton to name a few. Miraculously, Dirk was one of the rare survivors. But as he later said, “When you cheat Death, Death doesn’t let go so easily.” Take Another Piece of My Heart is the thrilling first-person account of a harrowing medical journey from the perspective of the woman who mustered strength and hope on the sidelines.