NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The Writers Series hosts acclaimed memoirist, Jaed Coffin, author of A Chant to Sooth Wild Elephants and author of the forthcoming book, Roughhouse Friday. Coffin will read on Monday, February 10th, at 4:30 p.m. in the Milano Ballroom.

Coffin’s first memoir, A Chant to Sooth Wild Elephants, chronicles his move as a twenty-one year old, half-Thai America from Middlebury College to his mother’s native village in Thailand where he hopes to be ordained as a Buddhist monk. His forthcoming memoir, Roughhouse Friday, is a memoir about Coffin’s time as a barroom boxer in Juneau, Alaska. There, he won the middleweight title.

Visit Coffin online at http://jaedcoffin.com/about/.

This event is presented by the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of English & Communications. All events in this series are free and open to the public. Coffin’s beautiful memoir, A Chant to Sooth Wild Elephants, will be on sale at the event. A book signing will follow the reading.

Date: Monday, February 10th
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Milano Ballroom
Contact: Professor Sean Prentiss (prentiss@norwich.edu)