Literary Firsts

Anthony D’Aries‘s memoir The Language of Men (Hudson Whitman Press, 2012) received praise from Tracy Kidder, Andre Dubus III, and Tom Perrotta, and was recently featured in The Huffington Post and The Boston Globe. In 2010, Anthony was awarded the PEN/New England Discovery Prize in Nonfiction. His work has appeared in The Literary Review, Solstice, The Good Men Project, Shelf Awareness, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program, Anthony served as Randolph College’s 2011 Emerging Writer-in-Residence. He currently teaches literacy at the House of Correction in Boston and creative writing at Regis College.

Anthony is the essayist for the January 21 reading.