The Craftsbury Library in Craftsbury Common is hosting another reading as part of its Legacy Reading Series featuring presentations by Vermont authors.
On Sunday July 19th the library will host C. Stark Biddle, local fiction writer and adjunct faculty member at Sterling College, as well as Andrew Miller-Brown, book artist, editor and founder of Plowboy Press which recently published *Adam's Mark* by Julia Shipley, who will also be on hand to read a short excerpt from the book.
The reading will be held at 4pm at the Craftsbury Public Library followed by a wine and cheese reception on the porch.
The Craftsbury Library Legacy Reading Series showcases writing that explores repercussions of events, ideas, people, traditions and institutions.
Please contact the Craftsbury Library for more information. 802 586-9683
*Christopher Stark Biddle* is a writer who lives in Craftsbury Common, Vermont and teaches environmental literature at Sterling College. Stark has studied at the Wildbranch Writer’s Workshop, the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference and at Breadloaf, Sicily. Stark has been published in the Healing Muse and in Green Mountain Review where he won second prize in the Neil Shepard short fiction competition. Stark is also the author of numerous studies and articles on democratic reform, civil conflict and the non-governmental sector.
*Andrew Miller- Brown* founded Plowboy Press in 2004, the same year he graduated from Johnson State College with a BFA in Creative Writing. Andrew went on to work and learn with Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press.
Combining his life-long interests in books, writing, and art with his upbringing on a small, family-operated dairy farm, Plowboy Press focuses on rural life, farming, and Vermont.
*Julia Shipley* is the author of *Adam's Mark* (Plowboy Press, 2014) and* The Academy of Hay* (Bona Fide Books, 2015) as well as chapbooks* First Do No Harm, Planet Jr.* and *Herd.* Her writing has appeared in the *Burlington Free Press, Fourth Genre,** Green Mountains Review, Northern Woodlands, **Orion Magazine, Poetry, The Rumpus, Seven Days, Taproot, Vermont Life* and *Yankee Magazine. *She lives in Craftbury.
Susan O'Connell Library Director Craftsbury Public Library P.O. Box 74 Craftsbury Common, VT 05827 (802) 586-9683 craftsburylibrary@gmail.com
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