Writers Series - Nina MacLaughlin

Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Hamilton Smith Hall


<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #555555; font-family: &quot;Source Sans Pro&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Thursday, Oct. 10th, 2024<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">5 p.m.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">210&nbsp;Hamilton Smith Hall</span></p><h3 id="h3-nina-maclaughlin" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; font-family: &quot;Source Sans Pro&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 29px; color: #555555; font-size: 24px;">Nina MacLaughlin</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #555555; font-family: &quot;Source Sans Pro&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Nina MacLaughlin</span>&nbsp;</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">is the author of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wake, Siren&nbsp;</em>(FSG), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Winter Solstice&nbsp;</em>and&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Summer Solstice&nbsp;</em>(Black Sparrow). Her first book was the acclaimed memoir&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter&nbsp;</em>(W.W. Norton), a finalist for the New England Book Award. Formerly an editor at the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Boston Phoenix</em>, she worked for nine years as a carpenter, and now writes a weekly books column for the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Boston Globe.</em>&nbsp;Her work has appeared on or in&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Paris Review Daily</em>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Virginia Quarterly Review,</em>&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">n+1</em>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Believer</em>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The</em>&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times Book Review</em>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Agni</em>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">American Short Fiction</em>, the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Los Angeles Review of Books</em>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meatpaper</em>, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</span></p>
Contact Info
Wilks, Janine
603-862-3963