Author John Biscello

About Originally from Brooklyn, NY, author, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has called Taos, New Mexico home since 2001. He is the author of three novels: Broken Land, Raking the Dust, and Nocturne Variations; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag; and a poetry collection, Arclight. His next project will…

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Author Ned White

About Ned White is a 1968 graduate of Yale College, where he was Scholar of the House in Creative Writing and editor-in-chief of The Yale Literary Magazine. He has written widely for television and corporate clients, and,when not writing, constructs crossword puzzles for The New York Times (25 as of…

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Author Bette A. Stevens

About Inspired by nature and human nature, author Bette A. Stevens is a retired elementary and middle school teacher, a wife, mother of two and grandmother of eight. Stevens lives in central Maine with her husband on their 37-acre farmstead where she enjoys reading, writing, gardening, walking and reveling in…

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Author Tammi J Truax

About Truax, a recent MEd graduate of PSU, is a writer and teacher. Her poetry has appeared in ten anthologies, including The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival with a foreword by Justice Ginsburg (Kent State University Press, 2014). A YA verse novel was released last May and…

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Author Robert J. Romano, Jr.

About Robert J. Romano, Jr. and his wife, Trish, have owned a camp in the Rangeley Lakes region of western Maine for more than thirty years. He is the author of the Rangeley Lakes series of novels: North of Easie, West of Rangeley, and Brook Trout Blues.  North of Easie won second place in…

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Author Laura Emack

About Writer of Fiction and Drama. Books At Play:  An Anthology of Maine Drama – Note:  First copy is free to Schools, Libraries and Performing Arts Organizations Contact Website: https://www.lauraemack.com Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/laura.emack

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Author Uzma Aslam Khan

About Uzma Aslam Khan is an award-winning Pakistani-American author of five novels, including Trespassing, The Geometry of God, Thinner Than Skin, and, most recently, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali. Trespassing, described by Tariq Alias ‘a self-confident novel (that) marks the emergence of a new generation of Pakistani novelists,’ received a Commonwealth Prize nomination in…

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Author Renee Ashley

About Renée Ashley has received fellowships in both poetry and prose from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment of the Arts. A portion of her poem, “First Book of the Moon,” is included in a permanent installation by the…

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Author Ed Rice

About This former daily newspaper reporter and weekly newspaper editor combined his love of journalism and baseball with his interest in Native Americans to write the biography of Penobscot Indian Louis Sockalexis, first-known Native American to play professional baseball. His book Baseball’s First Indian , Louis Sockalexis: Penobscot Legend ,…

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Author Ron A. Austin

About Ron A. Austin holds an MFA from the University of Missouri–St. Louis and is a 2016 Regional Arts Commission Fellow. “Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar,” his first collection of linked stories, won the 2017 Nilsen Prize. The book will be released in fall of 2019.…

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