This fall, explore the theme of house and home as portrayed in the novel “The Shipping News” by Annie Proulx, the memoir “From Our House” by Lee Martin, and a handful of poems.

Taught by Jill McCabe Johnson, the class is on Fridays, Oct. 14 to Nov. 18 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Orcas Island Library. The cost is $25 per person. Books can be ordered from Darvill’s Bookstore. Poems will be provided in class. Register at the library.

Johnson is the recipient of the Paula Jones Gardiner Award in Poetry, and four Pushcart nominations for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Los Angeles Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Harpur Palate. She earned her MFA from Pacific Lutheran University, and is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska.

She is editor of the forthcoming anthologies from the University of Nebraska Gender Program’s “Becoming: What Makes a Woman,” and “Being: What Makes a Man.” Johnson is the director of Artsmith, a non-profit to support the arts.