A celebration of reading and writing produced by Maine Reads
in cooperation with community organizations statewide.
March 29–April 1, 2012 in Portland
Tom Allen is the President and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, the public policy advocacy organization for the book publishing industry. In that capacity, he speaks for the major priorities of book publishers, including copyright protection, education funding and free expression. His book on competing world views and the division of American political… Read more >
Peter Behrens’ second novel The O’Briens, was published in July 2011 by House of Anansi Press in Canada, and will be published in 2012 by Pantheon Books in the United States. Behrens’ first novel The Law of Dreams won the Governor-General’s Award, Canada’s most prestigious book prize, and has been published in nine languages. His collection of… Read more >
Ben Bishop is 25 and lives in Portland where he self-publishes graphic novels. He is the illustrator of Lost Trail, a graphic novel adaptation of the classic Lost on a Mountain in Maine. His graphic novel, Nathan the Caveman, took more than four years to complete. Each page of the story is filled with details that… Read more >
Chip Bishop is the great-grandnephew of the “journalist” in his book, The Lion and the Journalist, The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop. He grew up in Woonsocket, R.I. and graduated from Boston University. Bishop has written extensively for radio and television news, newspapers and industry trade journals. His wide-ranging career includes… Read more >
Clark Blaise is the founder of the Creative Writing Program at Concordia University. He is married to the Indian American author Bharati Mukherjee. His short story collection, The Meagre Tarmac, was longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Blaise spent his childhood moving around the United States, where his Canadian parents were living and working…. Read more >
Jeannie Brett is an author/illustrator of children’s books. She has illustrated L is for Lobster, A Maine Alphabet; Fishing for Numbers, A Maine Number Book; M is for Mayflower, A Massachusetts Alphabet; One if by Land, A Massachusetts Number Book, and contributed to P is for Passport, A World Alphabet. Most recently Brett has written… Read more >