Lee Cole was born and grew up in rural Kentucky and is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His new book, Groundskeeping (Knopf) will include a March virtual reading at Joseph-Beth. “Eager to clean up his act, Owen Callahan—an aspiring writer—has just moved home to Kentucky, where he’s taken a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college. In exchange, he’s allowed to take a writing course.”