The Portland Public Library, MWPA, and PRINT: A Bookstore are pleased to host the launch of Lungfish, a debut novel by Meghan Gillis. Novelist Lynn Steger Strong will join Meghan in conversation at Bunker Brewing, as part of the PPL’s Spotlight Lecture Series.
Novelist Paul Yoon notes, “Lungfish is a force of nature—a deeply felt marvel of a book that navigates grief, parenthood, and the mysteries of family with unrelenting power and precision. Here is a story about the islands we build and carry with us. Here is storytelling at its best.”
Books will available for sale at the event, and Meghan will sign copies afterwards.
Meghan Gilliss attended the Bennington Writing Seminars and is a fellow of the Hewnoaks Artist Residency. She has worked as a journalist, a bookseller, a librarian, and a hospital worker, and lives in Portland. Lungfish is her first novel.
Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels Hold Still, Want, and Flight, which is forthcoming from in November. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York, The Paris Review, Time, and elsewhere. She has taught writing at The Pratt Institute, Fairfield University, Catapult, and Columbia University and will be the Visiting Fiction Writer at Bates College for the 2022-2023 school year. She was born and raised in South Florida and now lives in Maine.