The Monadnock Writers group will host author Richard Adams Carey on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 9:45 a.m. at the Peterborough Library.
The event is free and open to the public.
Carey, a New Hampshire resident, has hunted seal and walrus with Yupik indigenous hunters; fished for lobster, shrimp, and cod off Cape Cod in the winter; rode shotgun with Russian fisheries police in pursuit of sturgeon poachers; and reconstructed—on a moment-by-moment basis—the events of a mass shooting in a small New England town.
Carey is the prize-winning author of four books of literary nonfiction:”The Philosopher Fish,” which uncovers the realities behind sturgeon and the caviar market; “In the Evil Day,” which tells the story of the tragic story of the 1997 mass shooting in Colebrook; “Against the Tide,” which addresses the plight of commercial fishermen and women; and “Raven’s Children”, which traces the story of Carey’s seven years teaching in Kongiganak, a Yupik village in Alaska, as technology starts to reach the village in the late 1970s.
Carey’s short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in such places as
the Alaska Quarterly Review, Hunger Mountain, the Beloit Fiction Journal, Harvard Magazine, the Massachusetts Review, Yankee Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.
He is a former president of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project, and he has taught graduate-level fiction and nonfiction at Southern New Hampshire University.
The Monadnock Writers’ Group meets on the third Saturday morning of each month, September through June, at the Peterborough Town Library. Monthly meetings start at 9:45 a.m.
The monthly speaker series is open to the public and free of charge. For more information, go to www.monadnockwriters.org, or join the Monadnock Writers’ Group Facebook page.
