Katheryn Krotzer Laborde is a writer of prose. Her personal essays about Katrina evacuation and recovery experiences earned her a Louisiana Cultural Economy Grant in 2006; the non-fiction Do Not Open: The Discarded Refrigerators of Post-Katrina New Orleans was published by McFarland four years later. For her fiction, she has received a Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist's Fellowship as well as the Pirates' Alley Faulkner Society Medal.

SCHEDULE

12:30 AM – 1:15 PM
House Committee Room 5
Discussion
Worth a Thousand Words: Picturing Catharsis

Book Signing
1:30 PM – 2 PM

2:15 PM – 3 PM
House Chamber
Discussion
Andre Dubus II: Honoring the Writer, Remembering the Man