FreshInkK |
5/17/14 |
Theme: Insiders, Outsiders, Rebels and Whistleblowers
Jennifer Haigh, author of the short story collection News From Heaven and four critically acclaimed novels: Faith, The Condition, Baker Towers and Mrs. Kimble; recipient of the PEN/Hemingway and PEN/L.L. Winship awards; and writer with fiction in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories 2012, and many others.
Georgia Sassen, from Harvard, Massachusetts, writes poetry “entwining images from nature with issues in human relations”; she is a clinical psychologist and founder of BRIK, Building Resilience in Kids; her work appears in chapbooks Lines in the Landscape: Plein Air Poetry at Fruitlands and An Extravagant Canopy: Plein Air Poetry at Old Frog Pond Farm, 2011, also South Street: A Literary Journal – Thresholds, 2012.
Peter Brown, author of A Bright Soothing Noise; winner of the 2010 Katherine Ann Porter Prize in Short Fiction; published in the Harvard Review, The Mississippi Review, Post Road, among others; currently working on novel The Children of Design and translations of poetry collections Elsa, by French writer Louis Aragon and Elsewhere on Earth by French poet Emmanuel Merle; he is senior editor of literary journal Salamander.
Lauren Slater, our Artist-in-Residence, author of nine books including Playing House: Notes of a Reluctant Mother, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals and Opening Skinner’s Box; recipient of a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship; finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for excellence in science writing; essayist with April’s cover story for National Geographic; she is often featured in The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, Elle, and Self; and has eight inclusions in The Best American Essays series.
With guest host Laura Vilain |