Visiting Writer: Hester Kaplan

Thursday, September 24, 2026 7:30 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, #2001

The Fall 2026 Visiting Writers Series begins with Hester Kaplan, an award-winning writer of story collections, novels, and the memoir/biography, Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography, published in 2025 and longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Kaplan's story collection, The Edge of Marriage, received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and her work has been widely published and anthologized, including in The Best American Short Stories series. She is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Awards and was named a Quarry Farm Fellow by the Center for Mark Twain Studies for Twice Born.

Book sales will be provided by Scrawl Books of Reston, Virginia.