APPLETON — Author Gillian Burnes will share some readings and discuss her novel on Thursday, June 20, at 6 p.m., at the Appleton Library. This is a free event. 

Gillian Burnes studied English at ECU and the University of Delaware before starting journalism school at UNC-Chapel Hill — and living and breathing public radio as an intern at WUNC-FM. She met a New Englander in Santa Fe, where she was a copy editor for Outside magazine, and in 2002 followed him home to central Maine. While continuing to copy edit as a freelancer, she’s taught middle school language arts, proofread for the Maine Revisor of Statutes, and contributed articles to magazines here and there.

Soft Features (Littoral Books), a 2023 Maine Literary Award finalist, is her first novel. The book was the featured read for the Maine Public Book Club, May 2024.