STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

Sawtooth Valley author John Rember will read his new short story “Getting Wood” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.  4, at the Hailey Public library.

Rember, a college professor, describes it as “a story about getting older and making sure you have enough wood to last the winter.”

Admission is free.

Rember was born in Sun Valley but now makes his home with his wife Julie near Stanley. Educated at Harvard University, he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Montana before becoming a professor at the College of  Idaho in Caldwell and in the Pacific University MFA program in Oregon.

He has written articles, stories and essays for such publications as “The Huffington Post,” “Travel and Leisure” and “High Desert Journal.”

His books include the collection of short stories titled Coyote in the Mountains.” H memoir “Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley” was awarded Idaho Book of the Year in 2004 by the Idaho Library Association.

His forthcoming book, “A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World,” will be published by the University of New Mexico Press.