2020 Massachusetts Book Award
Wednesday, October 28
at 7:00 pm
20th Annual Mass Book Award
Michelle Hoover, the 2020 CFA Mass Book Award emcee, introduces the Concord community to six literary stars. She is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University and teaches at GrubStreet, where she leads the Novel Incubator program. Michelle is a 2014 NEA Fellow and has been a Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis and Bucknell Universities, a MacDowell Fellow, and a winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award. Her debut, The Quickening, was a 2010 Massachusetts Book Award “Must Read.” Her latest novel, Bottomland, is the 2017 All Iowa Reads selection.