Salem Literary Festival

Open Mic Hosted by Grub Street

kcooney — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:12:25 +0000

Join Grub Street instructors Lynne Griffin and Michelle Hoover for this Open Mic and send LitFest 2011 off in style! Read your poetry or prose, but keep it to three minutes; sign-up on-site, first come first served. This event will … Continue reading →

Lynne Griffin

kcooney — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:10:00 +0000

Lynne Griffin writes about family life. She is the author of the novels Sea Escape (Simon & Schuster, 2010) and Life Without Summer (St. Martin’s Press, 2009); and the nonfiction parenting title, Negotiation Generation (Penguin, 2007). Lynne teaches family studies at the graduate level, at Wheelock College, and writing at Grub Street Writers in Boston. She appears regularly on Boston’s Fox Morning News talking about family life issues. For more about Lynne’s work visit her website, LynneGriffin.com, or her blog, Family Life Stories.

Nancy Werlin

kcooney — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:01:09 +0000

Nancy Werlin grew up in Peabody, graduated from Peabody Veterans Memorial High, and received a B.A. in English from Yale. She has published eight young adult novels. The most recent are Extraordinary (Dial/Penguin, 2010) and Impossible (Dial/Penguin, 2008, a New York Times Bestseller), and her novel The Rules of Survival was a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature in 2006. She lives with her husband in Melrose. Visit her website at www.nancywerlin.com.

Salem Literary Festival 2011 Sponsors

kcooney — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:49:35 +0000

Michelle Toth

kcooney — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:21:11 +0000

Michelle Toth divides her time between New York City and Boston, where she serves on the board of directors of the non-profit Grub Street Writers. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Harvard Business School, Michelle works as … Continue reading →

Frederic Marshall Bauer

kcooney — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:02:34 +0000

Frederic Marshall Bauer began his creative career as an advertising copywriter in the early 1970’s. After a decade and a half performing functions ranging from television producer to creative director, he became a free-lance audio/visual screenwriter and creative consultant. From 1977 to 1998, he wrote and produced over 200 videos and computer-based programs for marketing and training. He was the coauthor, with Dr. Albert Forgione, of Fearless Flying—the Complete Program for Relaxed Air Travel, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1981. An avid Eighteenth century student and re-enactor, he was the drummer for Glover’s Marblehead Regiment from 1975 to 1996. His home is situated on the site of the Old Fountain Inn, where Charles Henry Frankland discovered Agnes Surrage.

Holly LeCraw

kcooney — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:06:47 +0000

Holly LeCraw was born in Atlanta and grew up working in her father’s beloved institution of a bookstore, Oxford Books. When not at the bookstore she could be found reading on the sofa, in bed, in the car, in public, and/or late into the night. She attended Duke University, where she was active in theater both musical and non-, and graduated with honors in English. She spent the next several years writing, getting cold feet, trying to do things that were almost writing but not quite, and then finally committing to the writer’s life. Along the way she waitressed (badly), temped, answered phones, taught freshman composition, worked in academic publishing and got a Master’s in English from Tufts University. She wrote many almost-published short stories and a few published ones, plus a novel-in-a-drawer, before completing The Swimming Pool. The Swimming Pool was published by Doubleday in 2010 and recently was released in paperback. It was a Kirkus Top Debut of 2010 and was named a “Best Book of Summer” by The Daily Beast and Good Morning America. LeCraw’s short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was chosen by Tom Perrotta to appear in NO NEAR EXIT: WRITERS SELECT THEIR FAVORITE WORK FROM POST ROAD MAGAZINE, recently published by Dzanc. She is at work on her second novel, which will also be published by Doubleday. Now firmly bi-regional, LeCraw lives outside Boston with her husband, journalist Peter Howe, and their three children, and spends part of each summer on Cape Cod. Her accent will come out when it feels safe, which is usually only below the Mason-Dixon line.

Althea Black

kcooney — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:03:46 +0000

Alethea Black was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College in 1991. Her father was a mathematician, and for a long time she believed her name, the Greek word for truth, was his way of tipping his cap to the idea of absolutes. Then one day her mother overheard her and said, “No, we got your name from a TV show.” (Judd, for the Defense.) Her debut collection of short stories, I Knew You’d Be Lovely (Broadway Books/Random House), was chosen as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick for Fall 2011, and is an Oprah.com Book of the Week. Black lives with her dog Zoe in Dutchess County, NY.

Laurie Faria Stolarz

kcooney — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:00:09 +0000

Laurie Faria Stolarz grew up in Salem, MA, attended Merrimack College, and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston. Visit her at www.lauriestolarz.com.

Meg Mitchell Moore

kcooney — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:58:05 +0000

Meg Mitchell Moore worked for several years as a journalist. Her work has been published in Yankee,Continental, Women’s Health, Advertising Age and many other business and consumer magazines. She received a B.A. from Providence College and a master’s degree in English Literature from New York University. The Arrivals is her first novel. Her second novel will be published by Reagan Arthur Books in 2012. Meg lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with her husband, their three children and a beloved border collie.