About the Event:
Join Mandy on Thursday, November 13, 2025, in Santa Barbara for a conversation with author Ivy Pochoda about her novel, These Women.
Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, These Women, and Sing Her Down which won the LA Times Book Prize. Her novel, Ecstasy, was released on June 17, 2025. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France, and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, among other awards. For many years, Ivy has led a creative writing workshop in Skid Row, Los Angeles, where she helped found Skid Row Zine. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. She lives in Los Angeles.
*Please note this event requires a reservation and prepayment. Tickets are non-refundable.
*The Santa Barbara Literary Series starts at 12:30 and ends at 3 p.m.
*There is parking in the adjacent parking lots – parking is only permitted in the Santa Barbara Club if you are a member!
