Cambridge Public Library to Host a Midwinter Reading with Three Award-Winning Local Authors

On Wednesday, January 29 at 6 p.m., the Cambridge Public Library will welcome Nina MacLaughlin, Joan Wickersham, and Lucy Ives for a reading and Q&A. Nina MacLaughlin will read from Winter Solstice, Joan Wickersham will read from No Ship Sets Out to Be a Shipwreck, and Lucy Ives will read from An Image of My Name Enters America. Registration is required. This event is hybrid and co-sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation. 

Nina MacLaughlin is the winner of the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award for Winter Solstice, which was a Boston Globe and LA Times Bestseller. Her book Wake, Siren was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award and her acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter was a finalist for the New England Book Award. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she worked for nine years as a carpenter and now writes the New England Literary News column for the Boston Globe. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Joan Wickersham is the author of The News from Spain and The Suicide Index, a National Book Award finalist. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines including One Story, AGNI, Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Boulevard, Poetry, and The Kenyon Review. Wickersham writes a regular op-ed column for The Boston Globe and her essays have run on NPR and in the International Herald Tribune. She has taught fiction and memoir at Harvard, UMass Boston, and the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lucy Ives is a novelist and critic. Her books include Life Is Everywhere: A Novel and, most recently, An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays, both published by Graywolf Press. Her writing has appeared in Aperture, Artforum, Harper's, The Paris Review, and Vogue. She teaches at Brown University.

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