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Kickass Keynote with GennaRose Nethercott + Megan Mayhew Bergman
June 8, 2024 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Part of the 2024 Kickass Writers Festival
Hear keynote readings by GennaRose Nethercott, author of Thistlefoot, and Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of How Strange a Season, two kickass authors with a deep fascination and respect for the natural world.
Cash bar + small bites!
GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT is the author of a novel, Thistlefoot, and a book-length poem, The Lumberjack’s Dove, which was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series. A writer and folklorist alike, she helps create the podcast Lore, and she tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow). Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart—her newest book—marks her debut into short fiction. She lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery.
MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN is the author of three books with Scribner – Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, How Strange a Season, and a forthcoming biography on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. She is a climate journalist and essayist who has published with the New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She’s a professor of Creative Writing at MIddlebury College, where she directs the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She’s a short filmmaker and also the co-founder of GreenStory, an environmental narrative agency for clean tech organizations and non-profits.
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