At this event, Nina MacLaughlin will be reading from her published works. She is the author of Wake, Siren (FSG), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice (Black Sparrow), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award. MacLaughlin’s first book was the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head (W.W. Norton). Her most recent book is the monograph Burning in the Eyes of the Maker (Phaidon) on the work of the artist Celeste Dupuy-Spencer. 

MacLaughlin has worked as a journalist and a carpenter. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, n+1, Orion, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Mass.

This event is free and open to the Springfield College community and the public.

Photo Credit: Kelly Davidson