07/27/2026
YEY! It's today! See you there!
Announcing our July readers, Peter Cameron and Brad Kessler!
This event takes place on Monday, July 27th, 5:00pm-6:30pm, and is part of the Carriage Barn at Park-McCullough Reading Series. You can find us in the Park-McCullough House carriage barn at 1 Park Street, North Bennington, VT!
About the authors:
Peter Cameron is the author of seven novels and three collections of short stories. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Rolling Stone. He teaches at The Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in Sandgate, Vermont and New York City, New York.
Brad Kessler is a critically acclaimed novelist whose work has been translated into several languages. He won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in Fiction for his novel Birds in Fall, A Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as a Whiting Writers Award. He is an educator and farmer, and author of the literary non-fiction Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese. His other books include North, a novel, a finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and the 2022 Vermont Book Award; Lick Creek, a novel; and The Woodcutter’s Christmas. He is the editor and co-creator of Deep North: Stories of Somali Resettlement in Vermont (2023). His work has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times Magazine, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and Lit Hub. He’s received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. He teaches creative writing at the MFA program at Antioch University and has lectured at, among other places, Northwestern University, Smith College, the New School University, and the Kenyon Writer’s Workshop. He is a graduate of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and runs a small goat dairy in Southwestern Vermont alongside the photographer and activist, Dona Ann McAdams.
