Colleen Sell

Join Porter Square Books for an evening with contributors to A Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors. The participants will also be collection donations to support a free mammogram project in Bali. The readers for the event are: Maria Judge was born in Germany, raised in Ireland, Chile, and Indiana, ... (more)and now lives in the Boston area. She has written extensively about her childhood and travels with her parents and eight siblings. She works as director of administration at Physicians for Human rights. Donna Conrad is a writer and editor who resides in Boston and Los Angeles. Her children's book, See You Soon Moon, has won several awards, and her short stories and essays appear freqently in literary journals. The founder of College Bound Essays, she helps students discover and craft their college essays. Suzanne Berger teaches advanced students in poetry at the Lesley Seminars at Lesley University. She has two books of poetry, These Rooms and Legacies and a memoir, Horizontal Woman. Her work has also appeared in Ploughshares, The New Yorker, AGNI, Harvard Review, and elsewhere, and she has received a Pushcart Prize and a grant from the Somerville Arts Council.

Local author Sherry Matthews will read her story from Cup of Comfort for Families Touched by Alzheimer's.