Ellen Meeropol in Person

Join us on Wednesday, March 25 at 7 PM as Ellen Meeropol talks about her new novel, Sometimes an Island. She will be joined in conversation by Jacqueline Sheehan

From burning shtetls to rising seas, one family’s journey spans generations and the fight for survival.
On a remote Maine island, a new community rises—tightly knit, off-grid, and resilient in a changing world.
After Cossacks burn their home, ten-year-old Deborah and her father flee their shtetl to a remote island on Maine's Penobscot Bay, seeking refuge and a new beginning. More than a century later, their descendants are once again uprooted, this time driven by rising seas and a collapsing world. From coastal towns to higher ground, a new community emerges: off-grid, tightly knit, and forged from an unlikely alliance of island refugees, family from Brooklyn, friends from a fractured Massachusetts co-op, and others seeking sanctuary as the political landscape grows increasingly volatile.

Ellen Meeropol is the author of the novels Sometimes an Island, The Lost Women of Azalea Court, Her Sister’s Tattoo, Kinship of Clover, On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest, and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Essay and story publications include Ms. Magazine, Lilith, The Writer, The Boston Globe, Solstice Magazine, and Guernica. Her work has been a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Prize, long-listed for the Massachusetts Book Award, and selected by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great Group Reads. Ellen is a founding mother of Straw Dog Writers Guild and a member of the WriteAngles Conference planning committee. www.ellenmeeropol.com

Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a fiction writer and essayist, the bestselling author of the novels Lost & Found, Now & Then, Picture This, The Center of the World, The Tiger in the House, and The Comet’s Tale. Currently on the faculty of Writers in Progress in Massachusetts, she also offers international writing workshops. Her essays are found in The New York Times Modern Love, The Writer, Next Avenue, and on NPR commentaries. She is the co-founder and past president of Straw Dog Writers Guild. She has been awarded fellowships with MacDowell, Jentel Arts, Hawthornden Castle, and Turkey Land Cove. She is working on her next novel and memoir. www.jacquelinesheehan.com

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