Paige Lewis with Jynne Dilling
Canon Book Signing

In Canon, Paige Lewis sends two unlikely heroes on competing quests to win God’s favor. Yara, cast out by their family and reeling from a destructive relationship, is baffled to have been chosen to slay Dominic, leader of the army of Bad Guys—but with nothing left to lose, they strike a deal and abandon their solitary life of embroidery and obsessive cleaning for a perilous, transformative odyssey. Adrena, a disillusioned prophet with a terrifying secret power, is chasing a different prize: the glory of God’s approval, and the promise of a heaven where she might reunite with her mother. As their paths converge, Lewis’s debut novel builds into an outrageously funny, deeply heartfelt epic about life, death, and destiny.

Paige Lewis will be in conversation with Jynne Dilling, Deputy Publisher of Riverhead Books, discussing the making of Canon, the author’s first novel.

This event is free and open to the public.

A book signing will follow the conversation.

Paige Lewis is a poet and writer whose work explores perception, vulnerability, intimacy, and the strange logic of everyday experience through inventive leaps of logic and language. Their work often moves between the cosmic and the everyday, drawing unexpected connections that illuminate the emotional and metaphysical dimensions of lived experience. They are the author of the novel Canon (Viking, 2026) and the poetry collection Space Struck (Sarabande, 2019). Lewis is a coeditor of Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance (Sarabande, 2023), an anthology examining recovery, longing, and transformation through contemporary poetry. Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Best New Poets 2017, and elsewhere. Lewis teaches at the University of Iowa.

Jynne Dilling is the Deputy Publisher of Riverhead Books. She oversees the publicity and marketing teams and also acquires and edits a range of fiction and nonfiction titles. She has spearheaded the campaigns for dozens of award-winning, New York Times bestselling books.