Melanie Henderson earned an MFA from Lesley University and an MBA from Trinity University. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Southern Women's Review, Mourning Katrina, Torch, Midwest African American Literature, and Black Arts Quarterly. Her new book of poems, which won the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, is Elegies for New York Avenue.
Professor of Sociology at Simmons College, writer, and activist Becky Thompson is the author of such books as When the Center is on Fire, A Promise, and a Way of Life, and A Hunger So Wide and So Deep. The winner of Rockefeller, Ford, NEH, and AAUW fellowships, her new book of poetry is Zero is the Whole I Fall into at Night.
The Brookline Booksmith Book Club has been sharing great books for 10 years. It normally meets on the 2nd Monday of each month, at 7:30 pm in our Writer's and Reader's Room. No need to sign up, just show up.
