Writers’ Workshop graduate Sarah Elaine Smith will read from her new novel, Marilou is Everywhere.  “Marilou is Everywhere is one of the most exquisitely written books I’ve read in a long time. Page after page I was struck by lines so unbearably beautiful and wise that by the final sentence I’d underlined most of the book. That she manages to do this while also telling a firecracker of a story about what happens when 14 year old Cindy slips into the life of the missing girl next door proves Smith a master. A haunting novel about craving escape so badly you're willing to erase yourself, by a writer I would follow anywhere." – Julie Buntin

Sarah Elaine Smith also holds an MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers, and is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Wallace fellowship.