The Green Mountain Book Festival’s “Lit Night at the Lamp Shop” features readings and performances from over 20 writers from 4 - 8 pm. Karin Gottshall and Daniel Lusk will cap off the evening with readings from 7:20 - 8 PM.

Daniel Lusk

Daniel Lusk is author of eight poetry collections and other books. He has been a Resident Fellow at Stranmillis University College-Queens (Belfast, NI), at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY) and at The MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH). Well-known for his teaching, Daniel has been a Visiting Poet at The Frost Place (Franconia, NH), Eigse Carlow Arts Festival (Ireland), and Juniata College (Huntingdon, PA). Awards include a Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize (Nimrod International), a Gertrude Claytor Award (Poetry Society of America) and his poems, stories and essays have been published widely in literary journals. His genre-bending essay, “Bomb” (New Letters) was awarded a Pushcart Prize. A former commentator on books for NPR, he is a Senior Lecturer Emeritus in English at the University of Vermont.

Karin Gottshall

Karin Gottshall is the author of two full-length poetry collections and three small press chapbooks. Her most recent book, The River Won't Hold You, won The Journal's Charles B. Wheeler Prize and was published by Ohio State University Press in 2014. She was a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference fellow in 2016, and her poems have appeared in national journals including The Kenyon Review, The Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, and Gettysburg Review. Gottshall lives in Vermont with a small but formidable pack of intensely needy rescue dogs. She teaches at Middlebury College.