DOWN EAST WRITERS READ LIVE
ON WERU'S "WRITERS FORUM"
EAST ORLAND: On Thursday, March 11 at 10 a.m., Susan Hand Shetterley, Cynthia Thayer, and Jacqueline Michaud will read from their own work on "Writers Forum," a monthly feature on community radio station WERU, hosted by Joan Clemons.
Susan Hand Shetterley has lived in rural Maine for almost forty years, and has held a wildbird rehabilitation license for fifteen. She now works with land trusts to save wildlife habitat. Her most recent book, Settled in the Wild, has just been published by Algonquin Press.
Shetterley grew up in New York City and Connecticut. When she was fifteen, she moved to Mallorca with her family for two years. She graduated from Skidmore College, and has received two Master's degrees--in Education from Harvard University, and in Fine Arts from Goddard College. She has taught writing courses at the University of Maine and in various workshops. In 1993, she received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, followed by individual Artist Fellowship Grants from the Maine Arts Commission--in 1994 and 2001. She has also been a resident at the Yaddo Arts Colony, and a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Maine-Orono.
Cynthia Thayer was brought up in Nova Scotia, did her undergraduate and graduate work in English literature in Massachusetts. In 1976 she moved to Maine. Thayer has published three novels: Strong for Potatoes (St. Martin's Press--1998) a Barnes and Noble "Discover" book; A Certain Slant of Light (St. Martin's--2000); and A Brief Lunacy (Algonquin Books--2005). All three were named "BookSense" books. Thayer has taught fiction workshops in both Maine and Nova Scotia. Currently, she is working on an historical novel based on the emigration from Scotland to Nova Scotia. Thayer and her husband own and operate an organic farm in Gouldsboro.
Jacqueline Michaud's poems have appeared in literary reviews and anthologies, most recently in Per Contra, the international on-line journal. A member of the American Literary Translators Association, her translations of Francophone poets have appeared in Calquezine, Ezra Translation, and CELAAN: Reviews of the Center for the Studies of North Africa. Michaud's debut collection, The Waking Hours: Poems & Translations, was published in 2007. Of her second collection, White Clouds, published this winter, the poet Daniel Hoffman has written,, "Her lines give us the pleasures of their accuracies of perception and of speech and will thrive on being re-reread." Michaud, who received her BA in French literature from Skidmore College, now divides her time between homes in Stonington, Maine and Kensington, Maryland.
"Writers Forum" airs monthly every second Thursday at 10 a.m. on Community Radio WERU, 89.9 FM, streaming live and podcasting at weru.org. The program features Maine authors, and summer visitors to Maine, both published and unpublished, reading their own compositions.
Writers interested in reading on the program should contact the station at writersforum@weru.org. WERU is a community radio station, "a voice of many voices" serving Midcoast and Down East Maine.
