Jordan Salama and Ben Shattuck – Brattleboro Literary Festival

Jordan Salama’s work has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, National Geographic, and Scientific American. His book, Every Day the River Changes, was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year.

A 2019 graduate of Princeton University, he lives in New York.

Ben Shattuck, a former Teaching-Writing Fellow and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is a recipient of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and a 2019 Pushcart Prize. He is the director of the Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency and curator of the Dedee Shattuck Gallery.

His writing can be found in the Harvard Review, The Common, the Paris Review Daily, Lit Hub, and Kinfolk Magazine. He lives with his wife and daughter on the coast of Massachusetts, where he owns and runs a general store built in 1793.

His most recent book is Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau.