The Dream Away Reading Series, 4pm-5pm

Serena Burdick is the USA Today, Toronto Star and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of THE GIRLS WITH NO NAMES. She is the author of the novel THE STOLEN BOOK OF EVELYN AUBREY, FIND ME IN HAVANA, GIRL IN THE AFTERNOON, and A PROMISE TO ARLETTE. Her books have been translated into multiple languages and published in twelve territories to date. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, holds a Bachelors of Arts from Brooklyn College in English literature and an Associates of Arts from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in theater. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.

Dori Ostermiller, MFA, is the founding director of Writers in Progress.  A native Californian, she moved to Western MA to earn her MFA at UMass Amherst in 1992. Her debut novel, Outside the Ordinary World (MIRA, 2010) was an Indie Best pick and an MLA must-read. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Bellingham Review, Alligator Juniper, Bellowing Ark, Peregrine, Calliope, Roanoke Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, The American, The Massachusetts Review and Rumpus, among others. Dori has worked for over two decades as a professional editor, has midwived dozens of books, and has taught literature and writing at many area colleges and universities. She is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Fellowship and a Tobias Wolff Fiction award, among others.  She lives in Florence, MA with her family and is working on a memoir.

Jon Wynn is a professor of sociology at UMass Amherst and a first-time novelist. Whether fiction or academic work, his writing focuses on the strange and complicated relationship between cities and culture, and a recent reviewer of all his work dubbed him a "sociological detective."

Picnic Committee, 7pm-9pm