Writers Reading: Nathan McClain, with Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, Matt Donovan, and Rebecca Hart Olander

Presented in partnership with the Amherst Business Improvement District, Writers Reading is a curated series featuring local authors. In our first installment of the reading series, join us at UMass Downtown for a line-up curated by featured writer Nathan McClain. McClain and fellow authors Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, Matt Donovan, and Rebecca Hart Olander will share selections from their work.

Nathan McClain (he/him) is the author of two collections of poetry: Previously Owned (Four Way Books, 2022), longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and Scale (Four Way Books, 2017). He is a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and is a Cave Canem fellow. He earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College. His poems and prose have appeared in Plume Poetry 10, The Hopkins Review, The Common, Poetry Northwest, and Zócalo Public Square, among others. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor of the Massachusetts Review.

This event is free to attend and open to all. See additional author bios at https://www.umass.edu/downtown/news-events.

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