Catawba College News Service  

SALISBURY — Catawba College’s 37th annual Brady Author Symposium will feature award-winning author and Salisbury native Kristy Woodson Harvey.

Her work will be available at the reception for purchase, courtesy of South Main Book Company.

Harvey is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of 11 novels, including “A Happier Life,” “The Summer of Songbirds” and “The Peachtree Bluff” series. Many of her books have been optioned or are in development for television and film and have received numerous accolades, including Good Morning America’s Buzz Pick, Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Reads, Katie Couric’s Featured Books and Joanna Garcia Swisher’s The Happy Place Read. Harvey is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize

A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Southern Living, Parade, Traditional Home, USA TODAY and many more. She also holds a master’s in English, with a concentration in multicultural and transnational literature.

Harvey is the co-creator and co-host of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction with fellow New York Times Bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel and Patti Callahan Henry. She also co-founded the interiors site, Design Chic, with her mom, Beth Woodson.

She lives on the North Carolina coast with her husband, son, and dog, Salt, where she is (always) working on her next novel.

Harvey joins a distinguished group of authors who have spoken at previous Brady Author’s Symposia, including Ron Rash, Ottessa Moshfegh, Tom Cooper, George Singleton, Reynolds Price, Josephine Humphreys, Anne Rivers Siddons, Dannye Romine Powell, Betty Adcock, Angela Davis-Gardner, Doris Betts, Lee Smith, Kay Gibbons, Fred Chappell, Robert Inman, Jan Karon, John Berendt, Pat Conroy, Terry Kay, Gail Godwin, Ann Hood, Tim McLaurin, Frances Mayes, Rick Bragg, Susan Vreeland, Jodi Picoult, Gish Jen, Joanne Harris, Chris Bohjalian, Elizabeth Berg, Colum McCann, Jane Hamilton, Sena Jeter Naslund, Meg Wolitzer, John Hart, Jane Smiley and Laila Lalami.

The event will be Feb. 25 at 11 a.m. in Hedrick Little Theatre, Robertson College-Community Center, followed by a reception with a book signing at noon. Tickets are $30 and are available at https://catawba.edu/symposium.