Beth Powning

I spent my childhood in a creaky, mouse-ridden farmhouse in northeast Connecticut. I studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and in 1972, at the age of twenty-three, moved to New Brunswick with my husband, Peter. I’ve written about our remote maritime farm in the memoirs Seeds of Another Summer, Shadow Child and Edge Seasons. My first novel, The Hatbox Letters, drew upon my memories of my grandparents. I’m one now myself. Maeve and Bridget live just down the road.

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