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: "Source Sans Pro", 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 Hamilton Smith Hall</span></p><h3 id="h3-nina-maclaughlin" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", 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: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Nina MacLaughlin</span> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">is the author of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wake, Siren </em>(FSG), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Winter Solstice </em>and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Summer Solstice </em>(Black Sparrow). Her first book was the acclaimed memoir <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter </em>(W.W. Norton), a finalist for the New England Book Award. Formerly an editor at the <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 <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Boston Globe.</em> Her work has appeared on or in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Paris Review Daily</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Virginia Quarterly Review,</em> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">n+1</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Believer</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The</em> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times Book Review</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Agni</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">American Short Fiction</em>, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Los Angeles Review of Books</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meatpaper</em>, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</span></p>