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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Steve Edwards\, author of Rare Good
DESCRIPTION:Join Steve Edwards\, the 2025 Concord Free Public Library Writer-In-Residence\, for a discussion of his new book Rare Good: Essays on Art Autism\, and Astonishment. \nSteve Edwards was diagnosed with autism in his mid-thirties\, altering his relationship to writing and family. He discovered what he had always known but never said: His compulsion to create was more than just a pursuit of self-expression. Faced with a mix of belief and disbelief from those who knew him\, and full of questions himself\, he committed to a new sense of wonder and pursuit of revelation. \n​Rare Good offers insights into Edwards’s experience of the awe that only art\, disability\, and loved ones can bring. Raising a disabled child and delving into acknowledging his own mindedness\, he explores the struggles of communicating and finding care\, the joy of gathering as community\, and the astonishing gifts that art and education offer us\, especially when we acknowledge the contributions of disabled artists past and present. Drawing on times of heartbreak transformed into determination\, Edwards describes his ongoing desire to find a way together. A singular work of lyric nonfiction\, Rare Good is a reminder and balm for all who might feel different. \nBio: Steve Edwards is the author of the memoir Breaking into the Backcountry\, the story of his seven months as caretaker of a remote homestead along the federally designated “Wild and Scenic Rogue River” in Oregon during the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. His second book Rare Good: Essays on Art\, Autism\, and Astonishment is forthcoming in October 2026. Steve’s essays have most recently appeared in The Yale Review\, The Sun\, Orion Magazine\, Literary Hub\, and Longreads. His essay “Yellow Band” was one of the most-read prose works in The Yale Review in 2024. He is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction/Nonfiction. He was the 2025 writer-in-residence at the historic Concord Free Public Library. Steve lives in Metrowest Boston with his wife and son. \n​Though the number astonishes him\, Steve has been teaching college writing for twenty-five years\, with stops along the way at Purdue University\, Emerson College\, Simmons College\, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln\, and\, for more than a decade\, he has been a professor of English Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. A highlight of his teaching career has been leading the original course Neurodiversity in Literature and Life at Tufts University’s Experimental College. Steve has led workshops with 27 Powers and Larksong Writers Place. \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.steveedwardswriter.com/ \nFor more information on the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-steve-edwards-author-of-rare-good/
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SUMMARY:Concord Festival of Authors: Steve Edwards\, author of Rare Good
DESCRIPTION:Join Steve Edwards\, the 2025 Concord Free Public Library Writer-In-Residence\, for a discussion of his new book Rare Good: Essays on Art Autism\, and Astonishment. \nSteve Edwards was diagnosed with autism in his mid-thirties\, altering his relationship to writing and family. He discovered what he had always known but never said: His compulsion to create was more than just a pursuit of self-expression. Faced with a mix of belief and disbelief from those who knew him\, and full of questions himself\, he committed to a new sense of wonder and pursuit of revelation. \n​Rare Good offers insights into Edwards’s experience of the awe that only art\, disability\, and loved ones can bring. Raising a disabled child and delving into acknowledging his own mindedness\, he explores the struggles of communicating and finding care\, the joy of gathering as community\, and the astonishing gifts that art and education offer us\, especially when we acknowledge the contributions of disabled artists past and present. Drawing on times of heartbreak transformed into determination\, Edwards describes his ongoing desire to find a way together. A singular work of lyric nonfiction\, Rare Good is a reminder and balm for all who might feel different. \nBio: Steve Edwards is the author of the memoir Breaking into the Backcountry\, the story of his seven months as caretaker of a remote homestead along the federally designated “Wild and Scenic Rogue River” in Oregon during the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency. His second book Rare Good: Essays on Art\, Autism\, and Astonishment is forthcoming in October 2026. Steve’s essays have most recently appeared in The Yale Review\, The Sun\, Orion Magazine\, Literary Hub\, and Longreads. His essay “Yellow Band” was one of the most-read prose works in The Yale Review in 2024. He is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction/Nonfiction. He was the 2025 writer-in-residence at the historic Concord Free Public Library. Steve lives in Metrowest Boston with his wife and son. \n​Though the number astonishes him\, Steve has been teaching college writing for twenty-five years\, with stops along the way at Purdue University\, Emerson College\, Simmons College\, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln\, and\, for more than a decade\, he has been a professor of English Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. A highlight of his teaching career has been leading the original course Neurodiversity in Literature and Life at Tufts University’s Experimental College. Steve has led workshops with 27 Powers and Larksong Writers Place. \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.steveedwardswriter.com/ \nFor more information on the Concord Festival of Authors\, please visit www.concordfestivalofauthors.org.
URL:https://www.livingconcord.com/event/concord-festival-of-authors-steve-edwards-author-of-rare-good-2/
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