National Library Week Event: Award-Winning Author Mardi Jo Link

Wed, 06/01/2016 - 1:04pm

When: April 15, 2016 at the Downtown Library Multi-Purpose Room

This year, AADL celebrated National Library Week evening with Michigan Notable Book Author Mardi Jo Link. Mardi discussed her memoirs, Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm and The Drummond Girls, as well as some of her new projects and the craft of writing. Mardi's memoir, Bootstrapper was an Indie Next pick, won the 2013 Booksellers Choice Award from the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, was an Elle Magazine Reader's Prize winner, and was named a Michigan Notable Book. Film rights have been sold to Academy Award-winning actress, Rachel Weisz. She has also written the true crime books, When Evil Came to Good Hart, Isadore's Secret:Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town, and Wicked Takes the Witness Stand:A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan, which were each Heartland bestsellers. Her essays have appeared in Bellingham Review, Bear River Review, Creative Nonfiction, the Detroit Free Press, Publishers Weekly, Terrain, and Traverse Magazine, among other places. Mardi Jo Link was born in Detroit and grew up in Bay City. She studied journalism and agriculture at Michigan State University. She was a founder of the magazine, ForeWord Reviews, in Traverse City, Michigan, and earned her master's degree in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte, in North Carolina. She is the mother of three grown sons and lives in Traverse City, Michigan, with her husband, Pete, and their dog, Gretchen.