Provided by the Friends of the Library

The Friends of Bluffton Public Library are hosting their annual Spring Tea and Silent Auction on Tuesday, May 6. The guest speaker will be local author Dave Essinger, who has published two novels.

The elegant, formal tea will be held at 6:00 p.m. in the library’s Richland Room on the lower level.

Tickets are $20 (cash or check) and will be sold at the library, 134 S. Main St., starting on Tuesday, April 1. The event has limited seating.

Essinger vividly remembers sheltering under school cafeteria tables for “fallout dills” in case of nuclear war, and has been more or less expecting the world to end ever since. His new post-apocalyptic novel This World and the Next is available from Main Street Rag Publishing Company in print and Amazon Kindle in ebook. MORE

Essinger’s first novel, Running Out, was released in 2017. The publisher’s synopsis reads, “Two elite endurance athletes and their child survive a plane crash in the remote wilderness of northern Quebec. With no rescue expected, one of them laces up his trail shoes and sets off for help.”

Other recent writing appears in Gargoyle, Sport Literate, Midwestern Gothic and elsewhere.  Essinger received his MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and has been the Editor of the AWP Intro Journals Project since 2016. He currently teaches creative writing and edits the literary magazine Slippery Elm at the University of Findlay.