Jaed Coffin Reading: 11/13/19

Jaed Coffin is the author of two memoirs: Roughhouse Friday, about the year he won the middleweight title of a barroom boxing show in Juneau, Alaska, and A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants, which chronicles the summer he spent as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s village in Thailand. Coffin’s essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, Down East, Nautilus, and The Sun, and he’s been a storyteller for The Moth Radio Hour and TEDxPortsmouth. Coffin teaches creative writing at the University of New Hampshire.

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“In heartfelt prose, Coffin beautifully captures his journeys, both geographical and internal.” -Publishers Weekly

Colby Visiting Writers’ Series 2019-2020 Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program Free and open to the public