Otero Arts is presenting Joshua Wheeler in the Quarterly Reading Series from 6-8 p.m. July 21 at the Artspace, 1118 Indiana Avenue in Alamogordo. Wheeler is a native of Alamogordo. He is the author of "Acid West: Essays," a 2019 finalist for the Western Writers Spur Award and the New Mexico Book Award. His essays and features have appeared in The Iowa Review, Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Harper’s, BuzzFeed, NY Times and others. He teaches creative writing at Louisiana State University.
Acid West: Essays garnered review from the Los Angeles Review of Books that described his work as “fluorescent…brilliant…worth reading more than once” and the LA Times: “a brilliant portrait of a place and a people…written with enviable verve and erudition.”
