Meet the Author | HCC's Big Read: The Last Beekeeper

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Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am

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Kepler Theater, Hagerstown Community College | Hagerstown, MD

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Julie Carrick Dalton is the author of "The Last Beekeeper," long-listed for the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award. She will be at HCC on October 2, 2025 to speak and sign books.
She is also the author of "Waiting for the Night Song," winner of the New Hampshire Writer’s Project 2023 People’s Choice Award for Best Novel, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and a Most Anticipated novel by CNN, USA Today, Parade and Newsweek.
A former journalist, farmer, and beekeeper, she is a frequent speaker at universities, museums, and conferences nationally and internationally. Julie serves on the teaching faculty of Drexel University’s MFA in creative writing program and teaches Climate Fiction at Tufts University. Her third novel, "The Forest Becomes Her," will be published in early 2026.
Learn more about HCC’s Big Read at: www.hagerstowncc.edu/bigread.
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Kepler Theater, Hagerstown Community College, 11512 Kepler Dr, Hagerstown, MD 21742, United States

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