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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. 

Kevin Moffett
Thursday 11/13 @7pm
Muskie Archives 201

Kevin Moffett is an American fiction writer and novelist, born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. His debut novel, Only Son (McSweeney’s) was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Fiction. 

Moffett is the author of two short story collections: Permanent Visitors (University of Iowa Press), which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, and Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events: Stories (Harper/Perennial). With Matthew Derby and Eli Horowitz, he also wrote the digital novel A Silent History (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), which won the Digital America Prize for Storytelling. Moffett’s fiction has been awarded the National Magazine Award, the Nelson Algren Award, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His stories have been anthologized four times in The Best American Short Stories, and have appeared in McSweeney’s, Tin House, American Short Fiction, A Public Space, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville.