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Nina MacLaughlin
Tuesday 09/30 @7PM
Muskie Archvies 201

Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung (FSG/FSG Originals), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice (Black Sparrow), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award. Her first book was the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter (W.W. Norton), a finalist for the New England Book Award. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she worked for nine years as a carpenter, and is now a books columnist for the Boston Globe. Her work has appeared on or in The Paris Review Daily, The Virginia Quarterly Review, n+1, The Believer, The New York Times Book Review, Agni, American Short Fiction, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Meatpaper, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Iain Haley Pollock
Thursday 10/09 @4:15pm
Muskie Archives 201

Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections, Spit Back a Boy (2011), Ghost, Like a Place (2018), and All the Possible Bodies (Fall 2025).  His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times Magazine and elsewhere.  He has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a 2023 New York State Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship in Poetry, the Bim Ramke Prize for Poetry from Denver Quarterly, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award.  He serves as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville University where he also edits the literary journal Inkwell. 

Corinna Vallianatos
Thursday 11/13 @7pm
Muskie Archives 201

Corinna Vallianatos is the author of Origin Stories (Graywolf 2025), The Beforeland (Acre Books 2020), winner of the Forward Indies Book of the Year Award, and My Escapee (University of Massachusetts 2012), winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories 2023, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. She lives in California and Virginia.