Join Rural Vermont and friends for a relaxed evening of book readings and conversation with Alexis Lathem (Lambs in Winter) and Teresa Mares (Will Work for Food)! We'll chat about farming, food, activism, and the awesome people who make it all happen. Join these two Vermont-based authors as we dive into the connections between food, farming, labor, and the real stories behind our food system.

Tuesday, March 24th
6:00pm - 7:15pm
Kellogg Hubbard Library
Hayes Room
Montpelier

This event is free; registration is encouraged! 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Alexis Lathem
Lambs in Winter: Sketches of a Vermont Like through Seasons of Change

Alexis Lathem is the author of Lambs in Winter: Sketches of a Vermont Life Through Seasons of Change, the poetry collection Alphabet of Bones , and two chapbooks. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Black Earth Institute, the Vermont Arts Council, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Marble House Project, the Chelsea Award for Poetry, and the Michael Steinberg Nonfiction Prize, and has appeared in dozens of literary journals. She has been a staff writer at Rural Vermont, organizer and steward of her faculty union, the coordinator of a First Nations support group, and has written on, and advocated for, numerous social justice and climate issues. She taught writing at CCV for twenty years and holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
https://www.umasspress.com/9781625349019/lambs-in-winter/
https://alexislathem.wordpress.com/

Teresa Mares
Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain

Teresa Mares is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Graduate Program in Food Systems at the University of Vermont. She received her M.A. (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington. Teresa’s research focuses on labor in the food system, food security and food sovereignty, and migration from Latin America. Her first book, Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont, was published by the University of California Press (2019). Her second book (with co-author Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern) entitled Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain, was published this fall by University of California Press.
www.teresamares.com