A SISTERS Celebration at Book Ends

A SISTERS CELEBRATION at BookEnds, featuring readings from SISTERS: AN ANTHOLOGY (Paris Press, 2009) by Jeanne Leiby, Terry Seferian, Nancy Keeler, and Jan Freeman, director of Paris Press and co-editor of SISTERS. Free and Open to the Public!

With Jeanne Leiby is the author of Downriver: Short Stories. She is the editor of The Southern Review, and an associate professor of English at Louisiana State University. Her short story, “Docks,” is included in SISTERS: AN ANTHOLOGY.

Terry Seferian was the Nationality Secretary for the International Institute in Providence, R.I., where she helped newly arrived displaced persons establish lives in the U.S.  A longtime resident of Winchester, she is co-author of the Long Pond and Smith Pond Trails Guides for Winchester Trails, a group that creates educational material and trail guides for children.

Nancy Keeler is the Morse Curatorial Research Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has worked in the Prints, Drawings and Photographs Department at the MFA since 2003. She curated the “Gardens in Perpetual Bloom” exhibit and is author of the catalog that accompanied the exhibit.

Jan Freeman is director and founder of Paris Press, based in Ashfield, MA. She is one of the editors of SISTERS: AN ANTHOLOGY, and the author of three books of poetry: Simon Says; Hyena; Autumn Sequence; and a new manuscript, Blue Structure.

SISTERS: AN ANTHOLOGY includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that capture the unique and profound relationship between sisters. Writers include Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Edwidge Danticat, Alice Walker, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Mary Karr, Grace Paley, Wendy Wasserstein, Maxine Kumin, Rita Dove, and many others. Visit www.parispress.org and sistersananthology.blogspot.com for more information about the Anthology.