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SUMMARY:Martha McPhee & Robin MacArthur: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Martha McPhee is the author of the forthcoming memoir\, Omega Farm. Her novels include An Elegant Woman\, Dear Money\, L’America\, Gorgeous Lies\, and Bright Angel Time. Her work has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and in 2002\, she was nominated for a National Book Award.  McPhee’s novels have been Best Books of The Year on The New York Times\, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune lists and her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including The New York Times\, The Chicago Tribune\, Vogue\, More\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Self\, Traveler\, and Travel & Leisure\, among many others. McPhee is a tenured member of the English Department at Hofstra University\, where she teaches fiction. She lives in New York City with her children and husband\, the poet and writer Mark Svenvold. \n\n\n\n\nRobin Marie MacArthur lives on the hillside farm where she was born in southern Vermont. Her debut collection of short stories\, HALF WILD\, won the 2017 PEN New England award for fiction and was a finalist for both the New England Book Award and the Vermont Book Award. Her novel\, HEART SPRING MOUNTAIN\, was an IndieNext Selection and a finalist for the New England Book Award. Both of her books have been translated into French and published by Albin Michel. Her essays and stories have appeared in Orion Magazine\, LitHub\, Hunger Mountain\, The Washington Post\, Shenandoah\, Alaska Quarterly\, and on NPR. Robin is also the editor of CONTEMPORARY VERMONT FICTION: AN ANTHOLOGY\, and the recipient of two Creation Grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing program and has taught in many non-traditional settings throughout the US including the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and Orion Magazine. She is also the founder and director of WORD HOUSE\, an emerging writing space in southern Vermont.
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SUMMARY:David Gessner & Bill Roorbach: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature\, humor\, memoir\, and environmentalism\, including the New York Times bestselling All the Wild That Remains\, Return of the Osprey\, Sick of Nature and Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness. His new book is A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World. Gessner is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington\, where he is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine\, Ecotone. He is married to the novelist Nina de Gramont\, whose latest book is The Christie Affair. \n  \nBill Roorbach is an American novelist\, short story and nature writer\, memoirist\, journalist\, blogger and critic. His fiction includes Lucky Turtle\, The Girl of the Lake\, the Kirkus Prize finalist The Remedy for Love\, the bestselling Life Among Giants\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award–winning collection Big Bend. Roorbach has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His craft book\, Writing Life Stories\, has been in print for twenty-five years. His writing has appeared in Harper’s\, the New York Times Magazine\, the Atlantic\, The New York Times Book Review\, Ploughshares\, Granta\, Ecotone\, New York magazine\, and other publications. He lives in Maine with his family.
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SUMMARY:Jeff Sharlet: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of nine books\, including his new instant bestseller The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War\, and The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power\, which was adapted into a Netflix documentary series. His reporting on LGBTIQ+ rights around the world has received the National Magazine Award\, the Molly Ivins Prize\, and Outright International’s Outspoken Award. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications\, including Vanity Fair\, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper’s; and VQR\, for which he is an editor at large. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont in the woods with many animals.
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SUMMARY:Peter Orner & Pam Petro: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Peter Orner is the author of the novels The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love and the story collections Esther Stories\, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge\, and Maggie Brown & Others\, two collections of essays\, Still No Word From You and Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. A three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize\, Orner’s work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, and has been translated into eight ­languages. He has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, the California Book Award for fiction\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish fiction\, as well as a Fulbright in Namibia. He is the director of creative writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich\, Vermont. \nPam Petro is an author\, artist and educator living in Northampton. She has written three place­-based creative nonfiction books as well as articles and essays for many publications\, including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Granta and The Paris Review. She was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales and has received both literary and visual arts residencies and fellowships from Grand Canyon National Park\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Spring Creek Project and the Black Rock Arts Foundation. Petro is on the creative nonfiction faculty of the Lesley University master of fine arts program in creative writing. She is also a co­founder of the Dylan Thomas International Summer School at the University of Wales. Her new book is The Long Field\, a memoir of Wales.
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