Author Event: Gina Troisi and Mhairi Haarsager

In both fiction and memoir, the saying "write what you know" holds strong allure, but is it really that simple?

Gina Troisi, a New Hampshire author, and Mhairi Haarsager, a Maine author, will introduce their books and lead a discussion based on using real-life events in fiction versus memoir. 

Gina Troisi's memoir, The Angle of Flickering Light, was a finalist for the 2022 Maine Literary Award. She received an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Maine in 2009. She teaches writing at Southern New Hampshire University and is a writing coach and mentor for creative writers. She is especially interested in childhood trauma, economic and class issues, and the way literature has the immense capacity to promote empathy in the world. 

Mhairi Haarsager, M.D., is a retired professor of pediatrics who published her debut novel, Moral Injury, this year. It is a quick-hitting thriller set in Baltimore in the waning years of the Cold War, about a NICU doctor who stumbles upon a deadly medical conspiracy involving the CIA and the Saudi Royal Family.