An Evening with Author Maggie Smith

Ohio’s own Maggie Smith will read from and discuss excerpts from her body of Work, including her New York Times best-selling memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful. A Question & Answer session will conclude the reading, followed by a book signing. Maggie’s titles will be available for sale by our friends at The Bookshelf in Madeira.

This event is General Admission and registration is required. Tickets will not be available at the door. While, free, donations that support the work of Women Writing for (a) Change are kindly accepted.

This event is open to All Genders 16+.

With gratitude to the following donors who helped make this event possible: Annette Januzzi Wick and Mark D. Manley; Elizabeth and Brian Mannion; Ellen Austin-Li and Jolly Li; Laurel and Jerry Chambers; Tina Neyer; and an Anonymous Donor.

Maggie Smith is the author of six award-winning books: You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Good Bones —named by the Washington Post as one of the Five Best Poetry Books of 2017—  Keep Moving, and Goldenrod. The title poem of Good Bones was called the “Official Poem of 2016” by Public Radio International and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Smith’s poems have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, The Believer, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Best American Poetry, and on the CBS primetime drama Madam Secretary. A Pushcart Prize winner, Smith has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.