Join us for an evening at Eliot House with New York Times best-selling author Peter Swanson, reading and in conversation with poet and novelist Kevin Carey. Swanson, a recent arrival to Gloucester, and Carey, one of the area’s most respected voices and educators, will discuss the writers’ craft and life through the lenses of their own work and experience.

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Peter Swanson is the Sunday Times and New York Times best-selling author of eight novels, including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger; Her Every Fear, an NPR book of the year; and his most recent, Nine Lives. His books have been translated into over 30 languages, and his stories, poetry, and features have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly, Measure, The Guardian, The Strand Magazine, and Yankee Magazine. A graduate of Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College, he lives here in Gloucester with his wife and cat.

Kevin Carey is Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University. He has published five books: a chapbook of fiction, The Beach People from Red Bird Chapbooks (2014) and three books of poetry from Cavankerry Press: The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) and Set in Stone (2020). His crime novel Murder in the Marsh was published by Darkstroke Books.