Artist and 'Daughters' author Celt will be at the library this summer 

Author and comic artist Adrienne Celt is the newest writer-in-residence at the Pima County Public Library. Her term will run from June 1 to Sept. 1, 2016.

Celt’s novel “The Daughters” (W.W. Norton/Liveright 2015) won the PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction and was named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR. She won a 2016 O. Henry Prize for “Temples,” published in Epoch. She writes and draws a comic at loveamongthelampreys.com

Celt will divide her hours: 10 a.m.-noon Tuesdays at Joel D. Valdez Main Library and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fridays at Himmel Park Library. She will also present events during the summer; for information, see library.pima.gov


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