A Virtual Event — free for all — with Michael Pedersen & Michael Pedersen in-conversation on their work. Hosted by Literati Bookstore: https://www.literatibookstore.com/event/home-literati-michael-pedersen-maggie-smith
Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet, author, scribbler, stitcher. He's unfurled two acclaimed collections of poetry (Polygon Books) with a prose debut, Boy Friends, published by Faber & Faber in 2022. He won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, the John Mather's Trust Rising Star of Literature Award, and was a finalist for the 2018 Writer of the Year at The Herald Scottish Culture Awards. With work anthologised by Pan MacMillan and Canongate Books, and fans that range from Stephen Fry and Shirley Manson, to Kae Tempest and Ian Rankin, Pedersen also co-founded the infamous Neu! Reekie! literary production house.
Maggie Smith is the author of several books, including Good Bones and the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. Her next book, a memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, will be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in April 2023. Smith’s poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Guardian, the Paris Review, Tin House, the Washington Post, The Nation, and The Best American Poetry. She serves as an Editor at Large for the Kenyon Review and is on the MFA faculty of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. This fall she is also teaching in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.