Two acclaimed writers with roots in Mexico, Maine meet to discuss the complexities and joys of writing about the lives and landscapes of the Pine Tree State. Kerri Arsenault's critically-acclaimed debut memoir, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, was published this fall. Monica Wood is the author of award-winning fiction and non-fiction, including the memoir When We Were the Kennedys published in 2012.
Kerri Arsenault is a book critic, book editor at Orion magazine, and a contributing editor at The Literary Hub. She is also a mentor for PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program. Her work has appeared in Freeman’s, the Boston Globe, Down East, the Paris Review Daily, the New York Review of Books, and Air Mail. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains, is her first book.
Monica Wood is a novelist, memoirist, and playwright. Her most recent novel, The One-in-a-Million Boy , has been published in 22 languages in 30 countries and won the 2017 Nautilus Award (Gold) and the New England Society Book Award. She is also the author of When We Were the Kennedys , an Oprah magazine summer-reading pick and winner of both the May Sarton Memoir Award and the 2016 Maine Literary Award. Ernie’s Ark was excerpted on NPR’s Selected Shorts and selected by several towns and cities as their One Book, One Community read.
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