Nina MacLaughlin

Nina MacLaughlin
Occupation	Author ninamaclaughlin.com

Nina MacLaughlin is an American writer. She is the author of four books of fiction and non-fiction.

Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, a re-telling of Ovid’s Metamorphoses , was published in 2019 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Massachusetts Book Award. ^[1] Her book length essay Winter Solstice won the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award for non-fiction. ^{[2] [3]} Her memoir Hammer Head, about leaving her journalism job to learn the carpentry trade, was a finalist for the New England Book Award. ^[4]

Her work has been published in the Paris Review , n+1 , Virginia Quarterly Review , AGNI , The Believer , the New York Times Book Review , the Los Angeles Review of Books , American Short Fiction , New York Magazine , and elsewhere. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]} For eight years she wrote a weekly column for the Boston Globe on New England literary news. ^[14]

She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Books

• Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, ISBN   978-0393239133
• Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, ISBN   978-0374538583
• Summer Solstice: An Essay, Black Sparrow, 2020, ISBN   978-1574232387
• Winter Solstice: An Essay, Black Sparrow, 2023, ISBN 978-1574232578

Interviews

• NPR ^[15]
• New York Magazine ^[16]
• The Millions ^[17]

References

1. "Briefly Noted". The New Yorker. January 13, 2020.
2. "ANNOUNCING THE 2024 MASS BOOK AWARD WINNERS". Massachusetts Center for the Book.
3. "Mass Book Awards, A New D&D Guide, and Graphic Novels". The Boston Globe. September 5, 2024.
4. Steinitz, Rebecca (April 1, 2015). "'Hammer Head' by Nina MacLaughlin". The Boston Globe.
5. "Nina MacLaughlin (author page)". The Paris Review.
6. "Nina MacLaughlin (author page)". n+1.
7. "Nina MacLaughlin (author page)". Virginia Quarterly Review.
8. "Nina MacLaughlin (author page)". AGNI.
9. "Nina MacLaughlin (contributor page)". The Believer.
10. MacLaughlin, Nina (June 1, 2021). "A Book About Absorbing What We Love Until It Transforms Us". The New York Times Book Review.
11. "Nina MacLaughlin (author page)". Los Angeles Review of Books.
12. MacLaughlin, Nina (March 11, 2019). "Life on Land". American Short Fiction.
13. "Nina MacLaughlin (author page)". New York Magazine.
14. MacLaughlin, Nina (January 9, 2025). "Melville statue ahoy, a grant for Rozzie Bound, and poetry of St. Matthew". The Boston Globe.
15. "Thanks To Chance (And Craigslist), A Writer Becomes A Carpenter". NPR.org.
16. "What It's Like to Be a Woman in a Field That's Still 99 Percent Male". New York Magazine. 2015-03-26.
17. "Bodywise and Brainwise: The Millions Interviews Nina MacLaughlin". The Millions. 2015-03-16.