Best Selling Author Monica Wood - Reading and Reception

The Richard Blanco Visiting Writers Program welcomes best selling author, Monica Wood. 

Part of the Richard Blanco Visiting Writers Program and Retreat, Wood’s visit will include a reading of When We were the Kennedys at 7 p.m. followed by a book-signing reception at 8 p.m.

Monica Wood was born and raised in Mexico, Maine in a family of devout Irish Catholics. The men in her family worked in the paper mill. She and her sister were the first in her family to graduate from college. Wood’s family is from Prince Edward Island in Canada. They brought the island’s rich sense of storytelling with them to Western Maine. Monica Wood has most recently published a novel, One-in-a-Million Boy. Previously she published a memoir, When We Were the Kennedys, three other novels, a book of connected stories, two books for writers, and three books for teachers.