Gallery of Readers presents Lisa Ekus and Kathie Fiveash reading from their work.
Sunday, December 17 at 4 PM
Florence Civic Center
90 Park Street, Florence, MA
Free and open to the public. Please come join us, all are welcome!
For those who can’t or prefer not to attend in person, a Zoom session will be available from 3.45 p.m. EDT on the day of the reading. (Be aware no admittance to the Zoom session after 4.05 p.m. for security purposes). Contact Robin or Carol — or one of the readers — for secure access to the zoom link.
Lisa Ekus
Lisa Ekus majored in American literature at Barnard College (’79) and worked in a literary agency, followed by stints at Random House and Crown Publishers in Manhattan. She founded The Ekus Group, LLC in Hatfield in 1983, a full-service culinary agency. Lisa has represented a diverse selection of food personalities, writers, cookbooks, restaurants, and food products. She also is the proud owner of more than 7,000 cookbooks. The Guinness Book of World Records recently awarded Lisa the honor of having the largest personal cookbook collection in the world. Lisa is deeply committed to volunteerism and donates her time to several non-profit organizations in the hunger, health, and humanitarian arenas. .
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Kathie Fiveash
Kathie Fiveash divides her year equally between Northampton, Massachusetts and Isle au Haut, a remote, unbridged island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. She is a naturalist, writer, teacher, mother, grandmother, and a faithful friend. Her book Island Naturalist, a collection of essays about natural history on the coast of Maine, won the Maine Writers and Publishers John N. Cole award for Maine-based nonfiction in 2015. A recent book of poems, Human/Nature, was published in 2022. Both are available from Penobscot Books.