First Congregational Church of Wellfleet

Friends of the Wellfleet Library Distinguished Speakers: Michael Cunningham and Cynthia Zarin

Tickets: $20 on sale July 1 and at the event

Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award and Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen. He is also the author of the non-fiction book Land's End: A Walk Through Provincetown. Cunningham's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications. His story "White Angel" was chosen for Best American Short Stories 1989, and another story, "Mister Brother," appeared in the 2000 O. Henry Collection. He is currently a senior lecturer in the English department at Yale University. His latest novel Day was released in November of 2023.

Cynthia Zarin is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Ada Poems and Orbit, as well as five books for children and two essay collections, Two Cities and An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she teaches at Yale University and lives in New York City. Her novel Inverno was released in January of 2024 and her latest book of poetry Next Day: New and Selected Poems will be published in August of 2024.