Join us for a reading and Q&A with authors Astrid Lindstrom and Chris O'Carroll.

Astrid Lindstrom is a retired public school English teacher, who advised middle and high school literary magazines, took students to a writers’ conference in Middlebury, Vermont, coordinated shared memoir writing between seventh graders and senior citizens, and loved writing with all her students. She has degrees in English from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Virginia. She and her wife Cece, a psychotherapist who specialized in supporting lesbians coming out from straight marriage, lived in Northampton, where Astrid still resides.

Chris O'Carroll is the author of three books of poems, The Joke's on Me, Abracadabratude, and Quantum Creed.  He has been a Light magazine featured poet, and his work also appears in New York City Haiku, Extreme Sonnets, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle, and The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology, among other collections.

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