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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 16, 2026

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Maggie Queeney

Featured Title: In Kind
In Kind

Part wunderkammer, part grimoire, Maggie Queeney’s In Kind is focused on survival. A chorus of personae, speaking into and through a variety of poetic forms, guide the reader through the aftermath of generations of domestic, gendered, and sexual violence, before designing a transformation and rebirth. These are poems of witness, self-creation, and reclamation.

About Maggie Queeney

Maggie Queeney is the author of “In Kind,” winner of the 2022 Iowa Poetry Prize, and a poetry chapbook, “settler.” Recipient of the 2019 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Ruth Stone Scholarship, and Individual Artists Program Grants from the City of Chicago in 2019 and 2022, Maggie’s most recent work is found or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Guernica, The Missouri Review and The American Poetry Review. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, and reads and writes in Chicago.

Author Schedule:

Venue(s):

Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion

Presentation Start Time:

11:15 am

Presentation End Time:

12:05 pm

Signing Time:

12:15 pm

Presentation Authors: