Please Join Porter Square Books and PEN/New England for Ladette Randolph at the Hotel Marlowe.
Ladette Randolph is the
author of the novel A Sandhills Ballad and the short story collection This
Is Not the Tropics, as well as the editor of two anthologies: A
Different Plain and The Big Empty. She is editor-in-chief of the
literary journal Ploughshares and Distinguished-Publisher-in-Residence
at Emerson College in Boston. Prior to joining the staff at Ploughshares
she was an acquiring editor and associate director at University of Nebraska
Press, and before that, managing editor of Prairie Schooner. She is the
recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe grant, the Virginia Faulkner Award,
and a Best New American Voices citation, as well as three Nebraska Book Awards.
Please note: this is an off-site event
to be held at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, MA. Directions to the Hotel Marlowe
PEN New
England is an organization of writers and all those who love the
written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in
New England and defend freedom of expression everywhere. PEN New England
is one of five regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of
International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world,
and also the oldest international literary organization. PEN NE is
honored to collaborate with the Marlowe Hotel and Porter Square Books
to produce the PEN-Marlowe Reading Series, now in its fourth year.
The monthly reading series is programmed by two PEN NE board members
and award-winning authors: fiction writer, Edith Pearlman, and
essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand. For more information, visit
the PEN
New England website.
