Just in time for the holidays, an author of a pie-themed cookbook will make her way to the Palouse.

BookPeople of Moscow will welcome Kate Lebo, poet, pie enthusiast, award-winning writer, and baker tomorrow at 6:30 p.m.

Lebo said she is excited to visit Moscow for the first time, as there are a lot of writers that she admires from the area.

 “We don’t often get quite so many cookbook authors into the store,” said Jamaica Ritcher, marketing and events coordinator for BookPeople. The event comes at a good time, as people typically make pies during the holidays, she said.

Lebo will show visitors how to make dough at the event, which will be hands-on so people can feel the dough themselves, she said.

The demonstration will also be interspersed with readings from her book, “Pie School.”

Lebo’s book is special because although technically it is a cookbook, it includes little bits and pieces of writing throughout, including the background or history of the recipe, Ritcher said.

“It’s got beautiful recipes,” she said. “She always writes a little bit about the pie.”

The book also teaches people to trust themselves, as they pay attention to how things taste and feel while they are baking, Lebo said.

“One of the secret goals of the book is to teach people how to make pie in a way that frees them from a cookbook,” she said. “They can make up their own recipe.”

Sam Ligon, fiction writer and creating writing professor at Eastern Washington University, will kick off the event with a reading of his own.

Ligon’s short reading will be from a piece from the Pie & Whiskey event, which will be both funny and racy, he said.

Ligon and Lebo met while teaching together, and continue to put together their Pie and Whiskey reading at the Get Lit! literary festival every spring in Spokane.

“Pie isn’t easy, but (Lebo) helps make it easier,” Ligon said.

Lebo, who majored in English and got an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington, said the idea came from the recurring question, ‘What are you going to do with that major?’

“I sort of flippantly said ‘Well I’m going to start a pie school,’” Lebo said.

Lebo now teaches pie classes at Pike Place Market in Seattle, as well as private classes in various locations.