Nina MacLaughlin

Nina MacLaughlin is the author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung (FSG); Summer Solstice: An Essay (Black Sparrow); and the acclaimed memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter (W.W. Norton). She's worked as a journalist and a carpenter and her writing has appeared in or on the Paris Review Daily, n+1, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Believer, the New York Times Book Review, Agni, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.