Highly acclaimed author, M. T. Anderson, has
written books for adults, teens, and children. His futuristic satirical novel
Feed, was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature in
2002 and was winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; his novel of
Revolutionary Boston, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing won the National Book Award in Young People’s
Literature and the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award. His newest book is The Empire
of Gut and Bone.
Patricia Fargnoli
Photo Credit: John Hession
Patricia Fargnoli, the New Hampshire Poet
Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009, is the author of four books and two
chapbooks of poetry. Her newest book, Then, Something, won the ForeWord Poetry
Book of the Year Award Silver Award, the Shelia Mooton Book Award of the New
England Poetry Club, and an Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Awards. Her
fifth collection, Duties of the Spirit, won the New Hampshire Jane Kenyon
Literary Book Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry and was a semifinalist for
the Glasgow Prize. Her first book, Necessary Light, was awarded the 1999 May
Swenson Poetry Award.
“Pat”, a retired social worker, has been the recipient of a MacDowell Colony
fellowship. She has been on the residence faculty of The Frost Place Poetry
Festival, and has taught privately at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and in
the Lifelong Learning program of Keene State College. She was the recipient of
an honorary BFA from The NH Institute of Art, has won the Robert Frost
Foundation Poetry Award and 6 Pushcart nominations. Twice a semifinalist for the
Discovery, The Nation Awards, she has published widely in literary journals such
as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, Alaska
Quarterly, and the Massachusetts Review.
