Maggie Shipstead will be visiting classes during a week-long residency at Tabor Academy the week of October 15 – 19 in an effort to expose Tabor students to professional American writers. The author will meet with faculty groups and students in their English classes, as well as the staff of the student newspaper or those who might aspire to a career in writing. She will share her writing process and habits as well as insights into life as a fiction writer, tips for working with publishers, how to create cover art, and writing for magazine assignments.
Maggie graduated from Harvard University in 2005 and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2008; she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Shipstead has completed two novels: Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements, which was on the NY Times bestseller list, and won the LA Times book prize for first fiction and the Dylan Thomas Prize for Authors under 30.
Beyond her novels, Shipstead regularly works as a freelance writer whose work has been published in: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Condé Nast Traveler, andTravel + Leisure.
The school will host a reading and book signing at Tabor Academy, open to the public, on Thursday, October 18at 7:00 pm in the Fireman Center for the Performing Arts in Hoyt Hall at 245 Front Street, Marion. Shipstead will stay to sign copies of her books from 8:00 pm – 8:30 pm.