UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Richard Powers in Conversation with Pico Iyer, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23 at UCSB Campbell Hall.

“Operating at the intersection of culture, the environment and technology, novelist Richard Powers has constructed an oeuvre rivaling that of any American writer,” Arts & Lectures said.

“The Overstory,” Powers’ visionary narrative account of the deep time embedded within the Earth’s forests, earned the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

In his new novel “Playground,” Powers does for the ocean what “The Overstory” did for forests, portraying the Pacific’s last wild regions in give and take with humanity’s ongoing project to subdue them.

Admission includes a copy of “Playground,” which can be picked up at the event.

Tickets to the event are $32.50-$47.50/general public; $10/UCSB students with current student ID.

For tickets or more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures, 805-893-3535 or buy online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.

Powers has written 13 novels that explore connections among disciplines as disparate as photography, artificial intelligence, musical composition, ecology, genomics, game theory, virtual reality, race, biology and business.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Grand Street, Conjunctions, Granta, The Guardian, Common Knowledge, Wired, Tin House, Zoetrope, Paris Review, The Believer, Best American Short Stories, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine.

His books have won numerous recognitions including The Rosenthal and Vursell Awards, James Fenimore Cooper Prize, a PEN/Hemingway Special Citation, two Pushcart Prizes, and TIME Magazine’s Book of the Year.