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YORK — Two poets, a newspaper columnist, and a cybercrime expert will be the featured authors at a Writers' Night at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, at the York Public Library.
Richard Hoffman and Kathleen Aguero are husband and wife poets from Cambridge, Mass.
Hoffman's award-winning poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications. He has most recently won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in fiction and The Literary Review's Charles Angoff Prize. Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, Hoffman also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.
Kathleen Aguero has written three volumes of poetry and has edited three volumes of multicultural literature published by the University of Georgia Press. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and she has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a Visiting Research Associate at Brandeis University.
A Professor of English at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., Aguero also teaches in "Changing Lives Through Literature," an alternative sentencing program based on the power of literature to change lives through reading and group discussion.
Laurie Simpson grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, went to school in Colorado, then moved to Washington, D.C. In l984, she was working in Micronesia when she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. She was 27.
Since then, she has moved to Maine, married Chris Simpson, come to work for the Maine Attorney General's office, and gotten a terrific service dog named Keebler. Today Simpson uses an iBot wheelchair that climbs stairs, likes to adopt old dogs from shelters, and is trying to learn Spanish. She writes a bi-weekly column about her MS for the Lincoln County News called "My Friend the Enemy."
Maine native Jayne A. Hitchcock is an internationally recognized cybercrime expert and author of "Net Crimes and Misdemeanors." She is also president of two volunteer organizations that strive to stop online abuse of children and teens.
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December 12, 2007
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