THE SOLSTICE MFA OF PINE MANOR COLLEGE ANNOUNCES ITS JANUARY READING SERIES

The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College announces its Winter Reading Series, taking place January 2-9 in the Founder’s Room of Pine Manor College, located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut Hill. Authors’ books will be available after the readings; cash-bar receptions will follow the readings on January 7 and 9. *Plenty of free parking!

Friday, January 2 at 7:30 pm: Amy Hoffman (author of the memoirs Hospital Time and An Army of Ex-Lovers) & Dzvinia Orlowsky (author of four poetry collections, most recently Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones).

Saturday, January 3 at 7:30 pm: Director and poet Meg Kearney (author of An Unkindness of Ravens and The Secret of Me) & Laura Williams McCaffrey (author of Alia Walking and Water Shaper).

Sunday, January 4 at 7:30 pm: Program Administrator and fiction writers Tanya Whiton & Sandra Scofiled (National Book Award Finalist for Beyond Deserving; author of seven novels, a memoir, and a craft book).

Monday, January 5 from 4:30-5:30 pm: Graduating Student Readings

Tuesday, January 6 at 7:30 pm: Ray Gonzalez (author of more than 15 books, including The Underground Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape) & An Na (author of The Fold; Wait For Me; and A Step From Heaven).

Wednesday, January 7 at 7:30 pm: Terrance Hayes (author of Hip Logic, Muscular Music, and Wind in a Box) & Special Guest Naomi Shihab Nye (author and/or editor of more than 20 volumes, including the National Book Award Finalist 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East and the recent Honeybee).

Thursday, January 8 from 4:45-5:45 pm: Graduating Student Readings

Thursday, January 8 at 7:30 pm: Laban Carrick Hill (author of America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the 60s) & Venise Berry (author of four novels, including the forthcoming Pockets of Sanity).

Friday, January 9 at 7:30 pm: Steven Huff (author of two poetry collections and the forthcoming short fictions, A Pig in Paris) & Randall Kenan (author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century and The Fire This Time).

Directions to Pine Manor College, complete bios of our authors, and more information about the Solstice MFA Program can be found at www.pmc.edu/mfa.

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