Please join us with our friends at Longfellow Books in celebrating the launch of Sasha Goodwin’s Centipede, the latest winner of the Maine Chapbook Series. Eduardo Corral calls Goodwin’s language “memorable and muscular” and her imagination “dazzling.” In choosing this chapbook as the winner, Joshua Bennett writes that it “asks us to expand our vision, re-orient our looking.”
Goodwin will be joined by two recent Maine Chapbook Series winners, Suzanne Langlois and Brandon Dudley, for reading and conversation. All of the recent Maine Chapbook Series editions will be available for sale.
At the beginning of the pandemic Sasha Goodwin moved back to Maine after thirty mostly good years in Seattle. She grew up in Pownal and lives in Auburn, with two black cats and a young pit mix named, Cheddar. In 2017 she completed an MFA in Creative Writing through the Pacific University low-residency program in Oregon.
Brandon Dudley’s chapbook Hazards of Nature: Stories was selected by National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez for the 2020 Maine Chapbook Series. Dudley is a graduate of the MFA program at Sierra Nevada University, where he was managing editor of the Sierra Nevada Review. His short fiction has won a Maine Literary Award and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His stories, essays, interviews and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in New South, The Millions, The Forge, Fiction Writers Review, and others. A former journalist, he now teaches high school English in Brunswick, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
Suzanne Langlois’s chapbook Bright Glint Gone was chosen by award-winning poet Martha Collins as the winner of the 2019 Maine Chapbook Series. Her poems have appeared in The Maine Review, NAILED Magazine, Cider Press Review, The Fourth River, Off The Coast, Rattle, and on the Button Poetry channel. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Independent Best American Poetry, and the Pushcart Prize. She holds a BA in English from Tufts University, an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She lives in Portland and teaches high school English in Falmouth.