Join us at Book Love for an evening with authors Susan Donovan Bernhard and Katherine A. Sherbrooke as they discuss their latest books and the inspiration behind their stories. Enjoy a lively conversation, audience Q&A, and the opportunity to meet both authors during the book signing.
About the authors:
Susan Donovan Bernhard is the bestselling author of the novels Westerly and Winter Loon, which won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient, a GrubStreet Novel Incubator program graduate, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, Susan was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana and graduated from the University of Maryland. When she’s not traveling, she lives and writes in Massachusetts.
Katherine A. Sherbrooke is the award-winning author of four novels: the New York Times notable Leaving Coy’s Hill, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award; Fill the Sky, the winner of an Independent Press Award, The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly, and her latest, This Much is True (September 2026). Her work has also appeared in Cognoscenti and Zibby Magazine. She served as Chair of the Board of GrubStreet, one of the nation’s premier creative writing centers, from 2013-2023. She has two grown sons and lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts with her husband.