In addition to 100 open-enrollment workshops in visual arts and creative writing, the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program offers free, nightly readings and artist talks for the community. Books will be available for purchase and signing, cash and cards are accepted.

Gail Mazur’s seventh collection is Forbidden City (2016). Previous collections include Figures in a Landscape; Zeppo’s First Wife: New & Selected Poems, winner of the 2006 Massachusetts Book Award, and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and They Can’t Take That Away from Me, finalist for the National Book Award. She is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College and Founding Director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge.

Susanna Sonnenberg is the author of the memoirs Her Last Death and She Matters: A Life in Friendships, both New York Times Bestsellers. Her essays and personal narratives have been widely anthologized. She teaches workshops and writes in Missoula, Montana, where she has lived for 25 years.

Fred H. C. Liang received a BFA from the University of Manitoba, and a MFA from Yale University. His honors include Massachusetts Cultural Council Arts Grants in both painting, printmaking and works on paper. Liang’s work is in numerous public and private collections, including Fidelity, the Gund Collection, Addison Museum of American Art and the Rose Art Museum.  He recently exhibited work at the Currier Museum of Art in NH, Inside Out Museum in Beijing and the ICA, Addison Museum.