Brad Kessler, 2011 Melanie Brown Lecturer presented by Chatham University's MFA in Creative Writing Program

Author Brad Kessler will be at the James Laughlin Music Hall on March 16 from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.  This event is free and open to the public.  

Brad Kessler is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Birds in Fall (Scribner 2006) which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His other work includes the novel, Lick Creek (Scribner 2001) and the literary non-fiction Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese (Scribner 2009). He is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Writer’s Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies.. Kessler’s work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, the Nation, Bomb, Kenyon Review, and The New Yorker. He lives and farms in Vermont with the photographer, Dona Ann McAdams.

More info on the event here.