07/06/2016
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Southport Memorial Library
1032 Hendricks Hill Rd.
Event Type
Author Suzanne Strempek Shea will give a presentation on her recent book, “This is Paradise: An Irish Mother’s Grief, an African Village’s Plight and the Medical Clinic That Brought Fresh Hope to Both,” a book about Mags Riordan, founder of the Billy Riordan Memorial Clinic in the African nation of Malawi. A book signing will follow the talk. Winner of the 2000 New England Book Award, Shea is the author of six novels, three memoirs and a work of non-fiction co-written with her husband, Tom Shea, and Michele P. Barker. Her freelance journalism and fiction has appeared in magazines and newspapers including “Yankee,” “The Boston Globe,” and “The Philadelphia Inquirer.” Suzanne is a member of the faculty at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program in creative writing and is writer-in-residence and director of the creative writing program at Bay Path University in Longmeadow, Mass.