Lunch with
Celia Rivenbark

An award-winning newspaper columnist and freelance journalist, Celia’s work has been described as a cross between Erma Bombeck and Hunter S. Thompson. 

She has won national & state press awards and is the author of 4 humor collections, the latest titled Belle Weather:  Mostly Sunny With a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits.   

www.celiarivenbark.com

Wednesday March 24,
11am The Dunes Club in Atlantic Beach

In 2000, Coastal Carolina Press published a collection of Celia's columns. A Southeast Book Sellers Association best-seller, Bless Your Heart, Tramp was nominated for the James Thurber Prize in 2001. David Sedaris won. He wins everything.  

Her second book, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier, published by St. Martin's Press, was the winner of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Nonfiction Book of the Year and was a finalist for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor. Jon Stewart won. He and David Sedaris probably went out drinking afterwards. I'm sorry, did that sound bitter?

Celia lives in Wilmington, NC, with her husband, Scott, Director of Government Relations for New Hanover Health Network and author of the true-crime bestseller, Innocent Victims. Their daughter, Sophie, attends elementary school where she grudgingly wears a very uncool uniform. When she isn't writing books, magazine articles or speeches, Celia enjoys watching old episodes of "The Gilmore Girls" while eating anything from Taco Bell