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The Charlotte Hobbs Library Speaker Series welcomes Gillian Burnes, author of “Soft Features,” as its first speaker of 2024 for a Zoom-only talk at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 18, at the Charlotte Hobbs Library in Lovell. “Soft Features,” Burnes’ first novel, is a finalist for the 2023 Maine Literary Award for fiction. Set in […]
Gillian Burnes works as a copy editor from her home on the edge of her in-laws’ organic cattle farm in central Maine. Her first novel, Soft Features, about a public radio reporter with an empathy problem, was a Maine Literary Award finalist. She’s recently taken up single sculling and can be found on the Kennebec River in the early mornings, hoping not to get tipped over by a leaping sturgeon.