Did you know that Jamaica Plain is home to many of Boston’s distinguished and celebrated authors? For our first bi-anual “Local Authors†night, Brendan Halpin, Catherine Sasanov and Ron Maclean will join us for an evening of reading, discussion and celebration of our local literati, storytellers, and writers.
Brendan Halpin is the author of two memoirs and several novels for both adults and young adults. His most recent young adult novel, Forever Changes, was on the Fall 2008 Kids’ Indie Next List, and his novel Donorboy was the recipient of the ALA’s Alex award. Brendan was a high school English teacher for ten years and currently teaches in a workforce development program in Boston. He has lived in Jamaica Plain for fifteen years, and currently lives near Franklin Park with his wife Suzanne, their three children, and their dog.
Poet Catherine Sasanov has lived in Jamaica Plain for the past five years. She is the author of Traditions of Bread and Violence (Four Way Books) and All the Blood Tethers (Northeastern University Press), as well as two chapbook collections: What’s Left of Galgani (Franciscan University Press) and Tara, which was released in April by Červená Barva. Catherine recently returned from a writing residency at Blue Mountain Center where she finished a new book of poems, Had Slaves. The manuscript is written out of her discovery in 2005 of slaveholding among her Missouri ancestors. Since then, she has done field and archival research, trying to find out what happened to the 13 men, women, and children her ggg-grandfather and his descendants owned.
Ron MacLean‘s fiction has appeared in GQ, Greensboro Review, Prism International, Night Train and other quarterlies. He is a recipient of the Frederick Exley Award for Short Fiction and a recurring Pushcart Prize nominee, and author of the novel Blue Winnetka Skies and the story collection Why the Long Face? He is former executive director (and still teaches) at Grub Street, Boston’s independent creative writing center. He has taught fiction at the Chautauqua Summer Writer’s Program, the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, and elsewhere. Currently he splits his time between writing and teaching fiction, and content development for values-based business ethics programs.
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