Event Description
Join author, naturalist, mycologist, educator and POCIE member Maria Pinto for an exclusive mushroom walk with book talk, Q&A, and signing!
POCIE is teaming up with Maria for a guided mushroom walk and exclusive look into her new book Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival which Publisher's Weekly is calling "a joyful mix of memoir, science, history, and adventure...with echoes of Jamaica Kincaid and Annie Dillard?”
This is a Day-After-Halloween event: fun costumes encouraged!!
This event has LIMITED SPACE. Please ONLY sign up if you are sure you can make it.
Maria’s Bio:
When she’s not in the woods (and sometimes when she is), Maria Pinto is a writer, editor, and educator. She teaches writing and consults for the literary arts nonprofit GrubStreet, where she was a Community Programs Teaching Fellow. She reads fiction for Peripheries Journal and serves on the board of Hale, an outdoor education and land conservancy nonprofit. Her writing has been supported by Assets for Artists at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Mass Cultural Council, PLAYA, the Writers’ Room of Boston, The Mastheads, and The Garrett on the Green.
Her fiction has appeared in Frigg, Necessary Fiction, Word Riot, The Butter, and Dostoevsky Wannabe Cities: Boston, and her nonfiction in Orion Magazine, Arnoldia, Mushroom People, and Roundglass Living. Maria has spoken about foraging, food autonomy, and fungal poetry, among other topics via Bust Magazine, NPR stations WGBH, WBUR, and WAMC, PBS’s Poetry in America, the website Public Lands, and podcasts including unladylike. She has led workshops and given lectures for the North American Mycological Association, Northeast Mycological Federation, New York Mycological Society, Central Texas Mycological Society, Sonoma County Mycological Association, Wisconsin Mycological Society, Telluride Mushroom Festival, Boston Center for the Arts, and Print Ain’t Dead, which published her zine for beginning mushroom hunters. She leads regular mycological forays at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum.