Nina MacLaughlin


Nina MacLaughlin is an American writer. Her memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, discusses her decision to restart her career. MacLaughlin's work has also been published in Boston Magazine, LA Review of Books, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast and The Boston Globe. She was also recognized in Refiner29's list of "21 New Authors You Need to Know." MacLaughlin won the 2024 Massachusetts Center of the Book award for her nonfiction book Winter Solstice.

Books

Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, W. W. Norton & Company, 2015Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019Summer Solstice: An Essay, Black Sparrow Press, 2020Winter Solstice: An Essay, Black Sparrow Press, 2023

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