Events & Calendars Fiction Reading: Susan Stinson

Alice Sebold has called Susan Stinson “a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities.” Stinson is the author of Spider in a Tree and winner of the Lambda Literary Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Her other novels are the Lambda Literary finalist Venus of Chalk, Martha Moody and Fat Girl Dances with Rocks. Her chapbook of poetry and short essays is Belly Songs: In Celebration of Fat Women. Stinson has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, and has widely published her fiction, essays, interviews and reviews. She lives in Northampton, Mass., and taught fiction writing at Amherst last fall.

The event will be followed by refreshments.