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Writer Jaed Coffin to Give Oct. 9 Reading
Writer Jaed Coffin will give a reading at Westminster Oct. 9 as part of Friday Nights in Gund, a series of readings and concerts held at Westminster during the academic year. The student reader will be Sixth Former Collin Lech who is the winner of the 2015 Brian Ford Writing Prize.
Coffin is an assistant professor of creative writing in the English Department and M.F.A. program at the University of New Hampshire. His first book, “A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants,” chronicles the summer he spent as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s village in central Thailand. His forthcoming book, “Roughhouse Friday,” is about the year he won the middleweight title of a barroom boxing show in Juneau, Alaska. He has published articles and essays in a broad range of journals and magazines, and has been a featured storyteller on the Moth Radio Hour.
Coffin’s reading is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of Armour Academic Center. Refreshments will be served after the presentation and ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to Armour Academic Center.
The Friday Nights in Gund series is made possible by generous grants from The Ensign Bickford Foundation and the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund.
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