UNH Hosts Nonfiction Author and Columnist Caitlin Shetterly Oct. 27

Monday, October 17, 2016

DURHAM, N.H. -- Author and essayist Caitlin Shetterly will read from her work and hold a Q&A session Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Union Building, Theatre I, at the University of New Hampshire, as part of the UNH Writers Series. The reading is free and open to the public.

Shetterly is the author of “Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future,” “Made for You and Me, Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home” and the bestselling “Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce.” Her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Elle, and Self, and on Oprah.com and Medium.com, as well as on This American Life and various other public radio shows. She lives with her family in Maine.

Shetterly is a writer of great versatility, blending humor and insights into memoir as well as rigorous reporting and personal exploration in her essays, articles, and most recent book on modified food.

For more information, contact the UNH English Department at (603) 862-1313. The UNH Writers Series is made possible through the support of the MacArthur/Simic and Edmund G. Miller Funds and the Ben and Zelma Dorson Family Charitable Foundation.

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