The Friends of the Northern Illinois Univsersity Libraries will hold a program, “The Intersection of Puppetry and Science-fiction,” with Mary Robinette Kowal at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Staff Lounge of Founders Memorial Library, Lower Level.

Come for a discussion of storytelling methods in two mediums, including a puppetry demonstration.

Kowal is the author of “Shades of Milk and Honey” (Tor 2010). In 2008, she won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2011, her short story “For Want of a Nail” won the Hugo Award for Short Story. Her work has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. Stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, and several Year’s Best anthologies, as well as in her collection “Scenting the Dark and Other Stories from Subterranean.”