Please join Longfellow Books and the MWPA as we host a virtual conversation between writer and Purple Heart-recipient Craig Grossi and beloved Portland writer Monica Wood. Grossi's second book, Second Chances: A Marine, His Dog, and Finding Redemption explores the lives incarcerated men who train service dogs at Maine State Prison.
To order Grossi’s lateset book or one of Monica Wood’s books, please visit Longfellow Books.
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Raised in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, Craig Grossi is a Marine Corps veteran, recipient of the Purple Heart and Georgetown University graduate. When not travelling with Fred, he devotes his time to veteran organizations including the USA Warriors Ice Hockey Program and other nonprofits that benefit dogs and veterans. He now lives in Maine with his partner Nora, and their dogs Fred and Ruby.
Monica Wood is a novelist, memoirist, and playwright. Her most recent books include a new edition of Ernie’s Art and The One-in-a-Million Boy, which has been published in 22 languages in 30 countries and won the 2017 Nautilus Award (Gold) and the New England Society Book Award. She is also the author of When We Were the Kennedys, an Oprah magazine summer-reading pick and winner of both the May Sarton Memoir Award and the 2016 Maine Literary Award. Ernie's Ark was excerpted on NPR's "Selected Shorts" and selected by several towns and cities as their "One Book, One Community" read.