JLB Book Signing Brunch with Betsy Cornwell Lyons
Date: Sunday, August 2
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Location: JLB Headquarters, 5902 York Road, Baltimore, MD 21212
(next to the Senator Theatre)
Parking is available on York Road, in the Staples parking lot, or in Belvedere Square.
Please join us for a Book Signing Brunch with Betsy Cornwell Lyons, author of Tides (as Betsy Cornwell) and soon to be released Mechanica (8/25/15). Copies of Mechanica and Tides will be available for purchase and author signing. Tickets are $30 and brunch will be provided for attendees. This event is presented by the Investment Committee of the Junior League of Baltimore, to benefit The 2022 Fund. Refreshments are graciously provided by Whole Foods of Mount Washington.
Biography – Betsy Cornwell Lyons
I’m an American writer living in the west of Ireland. I spend most of my time writing fairy tale retellings or avoiding writing fairy tale retellings by making goat’s milk soap and caramel, foraging for wild food in the bogs and hedges, and going on other small adventures.
I was born and raised in rural New Hampshire (where I thought I’d grow up to be a New York City girl) and I graduated from Smith College in 2010, two days after I finished my first novel, Tides. After receiving my MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame in 2012, which included spending a heavenly summer at a literary agency in New York after all, I ran away to Ireland to live with the fairies. I now live in a small turf-heated cottage at the edge of a mountain with my horse trainer husband and a growing number of animal familiars.
My debut novel, Tides, was published in 2013, and I have two more young adult fantasies forthcoming from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2015 and 2016: Mechanica, a steampunk retelling of Cinderella, and Compass, a companion novel to Tides.
I am also the story editor for “Parabola” magazine and an acquisitions reader for “Teen Ink” magazine.
In addition to my writing work, I teach online through InstaEDU and offer personal editorial services. In the summers, I teach creative writing with the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), a program I also attended as a student.
Event Contacts: Tara Gulla (taraleighgulla@gmail.com) and Betsy Hayes (bhayes@chapindavis.com)
