Opening Event
Friday, May 16
7:00pm | Artistree
Opening Night Event Featuring Local Authors and a Gifted Poet
Join us for Food and Drinks and
Enjoy the UNBOUND Exhibit at the Focus Gallery
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Authors:
L. Annette Binder
L. Annette Binder’s short stories have appeared in the Pushcart and O. Henry Prize anthologies and been performed on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Her story collection, Rise (Sarabande), received the Mary McCarthy Prize, and her novel, The Vanishing Sky (Bloomsbury), was a New York Times Book Review selection for summer and an Indie Next Pick. Annette’s new book, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven (Wandering Aengus Press, 2025), is a memoir of motherhood, memory and memory loss. Kirkus calls it “an illuminating and moving mediation on dementia.”
Annette lives in New Hampshire with her family.
L. Annette Binder’s short stories have appeared in the Pushcart and O. Henry Prize anthologies and been performed on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Her story collection, Rise (Sarabande), received the Mary McCarthy Prize, and her novel, The Vanishing Sky (Bloomsbury), was a New York Times Book Review selection for summer and an Indie Next Pick. Annette’s new book, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven (Wandering Aengus Press, 2025), is a memoir of motherhood, memory and memory loss. Kirkus calls it “an illuminating and moving mediation on dementia.”
Annette lives in New Hampshire with her family.
Sasha Hom
Sasha Hom lives off-grid in small canvas and wooden structures on a 600-acre land co-op amid 5,800 acres of conserved land situated within Vermont, an odd-shaped state (but aren’t they all?) upon a very large continent amid oceans. She was a Holden Minority Scholar at Warren Wilson College where she earned her MFA. She is a recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, a Brink Hybrid Literary Award, and a 2023 Justice, Activism and Localization Grant. Her work can be found in Exposition Review, Brink, The Leon Literary Review, The Millions, Literary Mama, Kweli Journal, Viz. Inter-Arts, Journal of Korean Adoption Studies, and anthologies.
Sasha Hom lives off-grid in small canvas and wooden structures on a 600-acre land co-op amid 5,800 acres of conserved land situated within Vermont, an odd-shaped state (but aren’t they all?) upon a very large continent amid oceans. She was a Holden Minority Scholar at Warren Wilson College where she earned her MFA. She is a recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, a Brink Hybrid Literary Award, and a 2023 Justice, Activism and Localization Grant. Her work can be found in Exposition Review, Brink, The Leon Literary Review, The Millions, Literary Mama, Kweli Journal, Viz. Inter-Arts, Journal of Korean Adoption Studies, and anthologies.
Aaron Starmer is the author of more than a dozen middle grade and young adult novels, including The Riverman Trilogy, The Locker 37 series, The Only Ones and Spontaneous, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film from Paramount Pictures. His books have been translated into multiple foreign languages and have appeared on best of the year lists from Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, New York Public Library, YALSA, Bank Street College of Education, Chicago Public Library and School Library Journal. He lives in Waterbury, Vermont with his wife and two children.