Events

Join Vermont Authors

Alexis Lathem & Melissa H. Cronin

for an evening of readings and discussion

The North Hero Public Library

Thursday, July 16

5:00 PM

Alexis Lathem will read from her 2025 book, Lambs in Winter: Sketches of a Vermont Life Through Seasons of Change, a memoir of her life on a Vermont homestead (University of Massachusetts Press), and Melissa H. Cronin will read from her forthcoming book, The Peach: A Memoir of Trauma, Survival, and Forgiveness (Mnemosyne Books).

Alexis Lathem is an award-winning essayist, poet, and journalist whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Black Earth Institute, the Vermont Arts Council, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Marble House Project, the Michael Steinberg Nonfiction Prize, and elsewhere. She has worked as a staff writer and advocate for environmental and social justice nonprofits and taught writing for twenty years at the Community College of Vermont. She lives on a small farm with her husband in the Winooski River Valley.

A former nurse, Melissa H. Cronin is a creative writer, journalist, and pedestrian advocate who received her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Recognized as a Notable Mention in The Best American Essays (2019) and a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Merit Grant and a Vermont Arts Council Development Grant, her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Jerusalem Post, USA Today, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Narratively, Tahoma Literary Review, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. Melissa lives with her husband in the Champlain Islands. melissacronin.com.