Friday, June 17 | 5-6 PM | Free

Guest Speakers: Theresa Senato Edwards, Vivian Montgomery

Craigardan | 9216 NYS RT 9N, Elizabethtown, NY 12932

Theresa Senato Edwards has published two full-length poetry books, one, with painter Lori Schreiner, which won The Tacenda Literary Award for Best Book, and two chapbooks. Edwards was nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, once for a Best of the Net, and once for Best Small Fictions Anthology. Her work can be found in Gargoyle, Thrush, Diode, The Nervous Breakdown, Dialogist, SWWIM, Verse Daily, and PANK, among other journals. Edwards has spent time as editor in chief and poetry editor at The American Poetry Journal and as a poetry mentor in the COUNTERCLOCK Arts Collective, is a senior poetry editor for Harbor Review, and holds an MFA from Goddard College and an MA from Western Connecticut State University.

Vivian Montgomery is a Boston-based harpsichordist and accordionist who writes. Her work centers around music, childhood, historical excavation of long-buried women composers, her dead mother, and unlikely Judaism. Her personal essays have been featured in the Boston Globe Magazine, Ocotillo Review, Bluestem, Ligeia, Adanna, Jabberwock, Chautaqua Review, Shark Reef, and in the anthology “Mother Reader” published by Seven Stories Press. She has found greatest assurances as a writer from a prize-winning personal essay titled “Immersion, on her first experience at the mikveh, ” and she is driven forward by her work on a historical novel, “Martha Speaks,” based on obsessive research that rose out of a 2014 UK Fulbright Fellowship. Vivian is on the faculty of the Longy School of Music and has been a Resident Scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center for 10 years. More significantly these days, she is a brooding walker and mother, feeling her way with the help of words spilled onto the page.