September 21 – In Person

Mary Baine Campbell is the author of The World, the Flesh, and Angels; Trouble; and the chapbook “Are Sin, Disease and Death Real?”, as well as books about medieval and Renaissance discovery and science and articles on the dreams of indigenous Americans and those who came to displace them.  She founded the Creative Writing program at Brandeis University, and is vice-president of the board of the Gloucester Writers Center.

Meg Kearney is author of eight books, including All Morning the Crows, which was winner of the Washington Prize for poetry, a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Silver Medalist in Foreword Review’s Indies Book Awards, and made Small Press Distribution’s poetry bestseller list April through September, 2021. Her heroic crown of sonnets, The Ice Storm (2020) is now in its third printing; and Home By Now (2010) was winner of the PEN New England L.L. Winship Award. Her second heroic crown of sonnets, Cardiac Thrill, will be published in September 2025. Her poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily, Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” series, and Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac;” it was also included in the 2017 Best American Poetry anthology. A native New Yorker, she lives in New Hampshire and is founding director of the Solstice MFA in Creative