Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader Janet MacFayden

Janet MacFadyen is the author of four poetry collections, including Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres Press 2017), In the Provincelands (Slate Roof 2012), and A Newfoundland Journal (Killick Press 2009). Her work has been nominated for the Forward Prize (UK) and two Pushcarts. It also has been anthologized in 50/50: Poems and Translations by Women over 50, and has appeared in The Atlanta Review, Crannóg, The Malahat Review, Osiris, Poetry, The Southern Poetry Review, Sweet, Terrain, and elsewhere. In addition to a nine-month fellowship at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, she has had residencies at Cill Rialaig in Ireland and the Fowler and C-Scape dune shacks in Provincetown. She is the managing editor of the poetry collaborative, Slate Roof Press.