Meet the Author | HCC's Big Read: The Last Beekeeper

Julie Carrick Dalton is the author of "The Last Beekeeper," long-listed for the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award. She will be at HCC on October 2, 2025 to speak and sign books.

She is also the author of "Waiting for the Night Song," winner of the New Hampshire Writer’s Project 2023 People’s Choice Award for Best Novel, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and a Most Anticipated novel by CNN, USA Today, Parade and Newsweek.

A former journalist, farmer, and beekeeper, she is a frequent speaker at universities, museums, and conferences nationally and internationally. Julie serves on the teaching faculty of Drexel University’s MFA in creative writing program and teaches Climate Fiction at Tufts University. Her third novel, "The Forest Becomes Her," will be published in early 2026.

Learn more about HCC’s Big Read at: www.hagerstowncc.edu/bigread.

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• Next month, 22nd October, 06:00 pm, Trunk-or-Treat at HCC in Hagerstown
• This November, 1st November, 10:00 am, STEAM Fest in the ARCC @ HCC 🎃🧪⚙️💻🎨 in Hagerstown

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