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Bette Bono
Belle Calhoune
Van Hartmann
Laurel Peterson
Meira Rosenberg
Marla Sterling
A light lunch will be provided by the Library
Meira Rosenberg will discuss her novel, 28 Days of Neon, which follows twelve-year-old Neon Blue Greene’s sweet, funny, and poignant attempts to do good deeds in her quest for a miracle after she overhears her parents whispering one morning and learns that she has 28 days to live.
Laurel S. Peterson is a community college English professor whose poetry has been published in many literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds (Finishing Line) and Talking to the Mirror (Last Automat), and two full-length collections, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? and Daughter of Sky.
Bette Bono is the author of the historical mystery, time travel novels The Better Angels and Fear Itself and the short story collections Neighbors & Other Stories and The Second Chance Shop & Other Stories. Bette has worked as a writer, public school teacher, teachers’ union steward, Harvard-trained lawyer, and political analyst. She lives in Connecticut with her family.
A New York Times Best Selling Author, Belle Calhoune grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, across the street from a public library. Married to her college sweetheart, she lives in Connecticut where she raised her two daughters. A dog lover, she has one mini poodle and a black lab. Writing for a living is a dream come true. She is the author of approximately 60 novels. Belle has been the recipient of the Maggie Award in 2023 and a finalist in the Holt Award in 2021. In 2019 her book, An Alaskan Christmas, was made into a television movie called Love, Alaska by Brain Power Studio. She is a Publisher’s Weekly Best Seller. Belle currently writes for Hachette’s Forever Line and Harlequin Love Inspired.
Marla Sterling’s writing is a third passion in her life
following careers as actor and teacher. She has an MA from Manhattanville College in Creative Writing. Her Pushcart Prize nominated work has appeared in Scribes Micro and Plum Tree Tavern as well as Connecticut Bards anthology.
Van Hartmann is a Professor Emeritus of English at Manhattanville University. He has published three books of poetry, Shiva Dancing (2007), Riptide (2016), and Afloat (2023), along with poems in various journals, He lives in Norwalk with his wife and fellow writer, Laurel Peterson. He views his poems as small prayers and meditations on the world around him. His latest book, Afloat, looks to moments of connection with the natural world as a source of solace in the face of the losses we experience and inflict on each other.