Arlington Author Salon: Tainted Love

Come out and participate in The Arlington Author Salon on October 12, 2017! This event is free to attend.

This Salon takes place quarterly the first week of July, October, January, and April, with some exceptions to circumvent holidays.

Where: Kickstand Café, 594 Mass Ave in Arlington Center, MA.
Just off the Minuteman bike path and steps from Spy Pond.
Accessible via the #77 bus. Some parking available in front of the café, and ample parking in the two town lots across the street.

Who:
KELLLY J. FORD is the author of the novel Cottonmouths, which Lambda Literary calls “a tale of resentment, venomous betrayal, and the wounds hidden beneath familiar surfaces.” KELLY is an instructor for GrubStreet Writing Center, and her fiction has appeared in Black Heart Magazine, Fried Chicken and Coffee, and Knee-Jerk Magazine. She is Arkansas-bred and Boston-based.

SONYA LARSON’s fiction and essays have appeared in Best American Short Stories 2017, American Short Fiction, American Literary Review, Poets & Writers, The Writer’s Chronicle, Audible.com, West Branch, Salamander, Memorious, Del Sol Review, Red Mountain Review, and more. She has received honors and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, St. Botolph Club Foundation, and more. She is studying fiction in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and is Director of GrubStreet’s Muse and the Marketplace conference.

JOANNA RAKOFF is the author of the novel A Fortunate Age, which won the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers’ Prize, and the bestselling memoir My Salinger Year, which has been published in twelve countries and is currently being adapted for film. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Vogue, and many other publications. Her new memoir, The Fifth Passenger, is forthcoming from Little, Brown.

Books will be available for sale at the event via The Book Rack.