Author Kickstarts Literary Event

BAR HARBOR — Author Roxana Robinson will kick off College of the Atlantic’s Coffee and Conversation Series at 9 a.m. on Thursday, July 22. She will be talking with COA faculty member Karen Waldron about writing and the creative process. The talk will be at the college’s Deering Common Community Center, at the south end of campus.

The Coffee and Conversation Series is a time of informal talk with noted authors and regional experts about work, creativity, and issues of the day, said COA spokesman Donna Gold.

Ms. Robinson’s 2009 novel “Cost” was an editor’s choice of the New York Times, and was picked as one of the five best fiction books of the year by The Washington Post. It received the fiction award of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Her novel “Sweetwater,” published in 2003, was chosen as a New York Times notable book of the year and best fiction of the year by the Chicago Tribune. “This Is My Daughter,” published in 1998, also was chosen by the New York Times as a notable book of the year. Her first novel is “Summer Light,” published in 1988.

Ms. Robinson, who is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a seasonal resident of Mount Desert, also is the author of three volumes of short stories, a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe, and numerous journal articles.

For more information, call the college at 288-5015.

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