BLANCHARDVILLE — Come meet local Blanchardville author Raine Fallfish as she discusses her newest book, “Picus: an Elegy”, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 11 at the Blanchardville Library.

Fallfish is from the Mojave Desert, but she spent most of her life in Georgia. After graduating university, she made her way to rural Wisconsin, where the air is clean and the seasons are strong. Somehow she’s still getting used to the green, but winter’s harsh glare and austere presence reminds her of the days she was a little girl playing in the desert sand.

Despite dreaming of being an author as a child, she went to university for mathematics, where she enjoyed solving puzzles and discovering new things. However, as graduation grew closer — and as she saw grad school applications edge closer — she realized that mathematics didn’t make her feel fulfilled. She wanted to write.

In the book, Picus is a Latian prince and the only mortal son of an overbearing god. Despite his fear, he keeps his relationship with the nymph Canens a secret from his father’s meddling eyes. But when his father gathers a group of suitors for him to choose from, he has a choice: does he protect his safety, or does he protect his love? A novelette retelling Ovid in the tragic tradition.