Please join us as we celebrate

National Community College Month

& National Poetry Month

Creative Writers
Reading Series 2018
APRIL 20, 23 & 27
in the NMCC library
Come hear original work by both experienced,
published writers and talented beginners!
Each afternoon session, NMCC students will read briefly from their own work,
followed by a featured presentation by a guest writer.
Each evening session, guest writers will read from their recent work,
followed by a Q&A and book signing.

April 20 ~ Joan Dempsey 2 sessions: NOON & 6:30 pm

Joan Dempsey is the author of This is How it Begins (2017), a novel that has been named a final-
ist for both the Sarton Women’s Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award. In 2017, she was
named as one of “5 more over 50” writers to watch by Poets & Writer’s Magazine. Her writing
has been published in The Adirondack Review, Alligator Juniper, Obsidian: Literature of the African
Diaspora and Plenitude Magazine, and aired on National Public Radio. She resides in New
Gloucester, Maine, where she helps serious creative writers master the craft of revision
through online courses and free resources.

April 23 ~ Jaed Coffin NOON

Jaed Coffin is the author of A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants (2008) which chronicles the sum-
mer he spent as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s village in central Thailand. His forthcoming
book, Roughhouse Friday is about the year he won the middleweight title of a barroom box-
ing show in Juneau, Alaska. Coffin has lectured widely at over twenty colleges and universities,
where he speaks on topics of multiculturalism, masculinity, and the environment. He served as
a lecturer at Bowdoin College and as the artist in residence at the Telling Room, a nonprofit
storytelling foundation that empowers refugee communities. Coffin is an assistant professor of
creative writing (nonfiction/fiction) in the English department and M.F.A. program at UNH.

April 27 ~ Aimée Baker 2 sessions: NOON & 6:30 pm

Aimée Baker is the author Doe (2018), a collection of poetry about missing women that was
selected by Allison Joseph as the 2016 Akron Prize winner at University of Akron Press. Of
this work, Joseph writes: “[It] is so good, so well executed with such difficult subject mat-
ter. I admire its active courage, its commitment to witnessing what so many reject. It stayed
with me through reading all the others—fantastic books, the lot of them. But Doe is a game
changer, a silence eliminator.” Baker’s fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared in
journals such as The Southern Review, Gulf Coast,The Massachusetts Review, and Guernica. In 2014,
she received the Zoland Poetry Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. Currently, she is a
lecturer for SUNY Plattsburgh’s Professional Writing Certificate Program and she also serves
as fiction editor for the Saranac Review.

All of these readings are free and open to the public.

Light refreshments will be served.