About: Katie Coppens lives in Maine with her husband and two children. She is an award-winning teacher with a goal of writing books that encourage kids to ask questions and have fun while learning. Katie currently teaches 6th grade at Falmouth Middle School. Books: The Acadia Files; Book One, Summer…
About: Mark Guerin is a 2014 graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program in Boston. He also has an MFA from Brandeis University and is a winner of an Illinois Arts Council Grant, the Mimi Steinberg Award for Playwriting and Sigma Tau Delta’s Eleanor B. North Poetry Award. A contributor to the…
About Selected by President Obama as the fifth inaugural poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco is the youngest and the first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami, the negotiation of cultural identity characterizes his…
About Gay, minimalist poet who usually writes about New York City where he used to live. He launched the EGR Writers House, offering subsidized housing to writers. Books Ghetto: From the First Five The Weigh-in: Collected Poems Skin Check: New York Poems Wrestling Starting Position. Work-in-progress: Takedown Portraits. Contact Website: takedownportraits.blogspot.com
About Mary Lou Bagley is a Maine-based author, experienced educator, seasoned storyteller, stage & screen actress, and multi-discipline artist. Her first in a series novel, Other Wise, featuring Margaret Meader—a Maine native gifted with second sight, was published in 2018 and enjoys a wide and enthusiastic readership. The eagerly anticipated second…
About M. J. Wright is the author of the Elanna’s Children Series and standalone book Millie or Lily. Debuting with The Broken Child in 2016, Ms. Wright injects her characters with realistic quirks her readers can relate to. Living with a rare disability she began writing novels so that her…
About Carolyn Locke is the author of three poetry collections— Always This Falling (2010), The Place We Become (2015), and The Riddle of Yes (2019)— and a haibun entitled Not One Thing: Following Matsuo Basho’s Narrow Road to the Interior (2013) that weaves prose, haiku, and photographs in a meditative exploration of…
About DEBRA SPARK is the author of five books of fiction, including Unknown Caller, The Pretty Girl, and Good for the Jews. Other books include Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing, and the anthology Twenty Under Thirty. Her short work has appeared in Agni, AWP Writers’ Chronicle, the Boston Globe,…
About Bruce Robert Coffin is the bestselling author of the Detective Byron mystery series. A former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine’s largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Bruce spent four years…
About Brenda Pollock was born and raised in Madawaska, Maine. She moved to southern Maine where she began her career as a chamber of commerce executive director. Her profession led her to Montreal, Canada, when she accepted the role of VP of sales and marketing in the private aviation industry.…
