Happy “Un” Valentine’s Day! Join us on February 13th for an alternative to Valentine’s Day. Five talented writers read from the anthology The Honeymoon’s Over: True Stories of Love, Marriage, and Divorce, edited by Andrea Chapin and Sally Wofford-Girand.
A.
R. Baumann is a fifth-generation Texan, who modeled in London and
Italy before pursuing an acting career in New York City and Los Angeles.
Baumann has written the screenplays for two short films: What’s Next,
which she directed and was a finalist in the short film category at the
Houston International Film Festival, and Lorean, which won second
place at the Mobil Awards and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art
in New York City. She lives in Malibu with her husband and three children.
Andrea
Chapin has been an editor at art, movie, theater, and literary magazines,
including The Paris Review, Conjunctions, Translation, and The
New Theater Review. She has lived and worked in Mexico and Spain and
acted professionally in Germany in Edward Albee’s Seascape. Her
fiction has appeared in literary journals, and her articles and essays
have appeared in magazines such as Marie Claire UK, More, Martha Stewart
Living, Redbook and Self, as well as in several anthologies,
including The Day My Father Died and Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes
from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty. She
is a writer and an editor and lives in New York City with her husband
and two children.
Patricia
McCormick, a 2006 finalist for the National Book Award, is the author
of three critically acclaimed novels for young adults - Sold, a
deeply moving account of sexual trafficking, My Brother’s Keeper,
a realistic view of teenage substance abuse and Cut, an intimate
portrait of one teenager’s struggle with selfinjury. Her books have been
translated in a several languages; Cut has sold nearly 500,000
copies. Sold was named by Publishers Weekly as one of Best
100 Books of the Year and was selected by the American Library Association
as one of the Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults in 2006. McCormick was
named a New York Foundation on the Arts fellow in 2004. She is currently
working on a book that explores the grief of a 15-year-old girl whose
brother was killed in the war in Iraq. McCormick is a graduate of the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and lives Manhattan
with her husband and teenage son.
Martha
McPhee is the author of the novels Bright Angel Time, Gorgeous
Lies, and L’America. Her work has been honored with fellowships
from the National Endowment of the Arts and The John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation. In 2002 she was nominated for a National Book Award.
Her novels have been Best Books of The Year on The New York Times,
Washington Post and Chicago Tribune lists. Her essays and reviews
have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including The New
York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Newark Star Ledger, More, Harper’s
Bazaar, Self, Traveler, Travel & Leisure, among many others. She lives
in New York City with her children and husband, the poet and writer Mark
Svenvold.
Sally
Wofford-Girand is a literary agent and founder of Brick House Literary
Agents. She worked on Wall Street before seeking refuge in book publishing.
She is a member of the international rights committee of the AAR and a
board member of Ledig House, an international writers’ colony in New York
State. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.