Meg Elison: Foundling Fathers, co-presented at the North Adams Public Library

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Join MASS MoCA's Research & Development Store and the North Adams Public Library for a reading, conversation, and book-signing with Meg Elison on her latest book,

Foundling Fathers

This co-presentation takes place at our neighboring North Adams Public Library (74 Church St., North Adams, MA), not at MASS MoCA.

Join M ASS MoCA's Research & Development Store and the North Adams Public Library for a free reading, conversation, and book-signing with Meg Elison, whose just-released

Foundling Fathers

(Tachyon Publications) seamle ssly combines science fiction and history with sharp, witty commentary, proving why she is one of speculative fiction's most exciting voices.

The trouble starts when a curious young man finds a smartphone in his pr ivy. The problem is, it's supposed to be the year 1750.

The Antedilu vian Society - a shadowy cabal of right-wing billionaires - is fed up with a country they cannot fully control or understand. So they have done what any reasonable American patriots would do: clone the Founding Fathers and raise them in secrecy. The plan, unbeknownst to the boys, is for them to restore America to its "original glory."

Meg Elison is the author of

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, winner of the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. Her young adult novel,

Find Layla, was named one of

Vanity Fair's best books of the year. Her collection,

Big Girl, contains the Locus Award-winning novelette

The Pill.

Elison has published in outlets including

Uncanny,

Fangoria,

Nightmare,

Clarkesworld, and

Fantasy & Science Fiction. As an essayist and satirist, she has published nonfiction in McSweeney's, Electric Literature, Reactor, and Psychopomp. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She has been a Cla yton B. Ofstad endowed distinguished writer-in-residence, as well as a Fred and Lola Case Writer. Elison is married to the cartoonist Colin Lidston , and they live in the Berkshires in Massachusetts.