Husband-Wife Writers Offer Up Crime and Poetry

Paul Doiron and Kristen Lindquist

Husband-Wife Writers Offer Up Crime and Poetry August 30

Camden’s husband-wife writing duo of Paul Doiron and Kristen Lindquist will be teaming up at the Camden Public Library on August 30 at 7:00 pm to offer a mixed-genre reading featuring excerpts from Doiron’s fiction interspersed with Lindquist’s poetry. Both feature the Maine natural landscape prominently in their work, which should result in a uniquely resonant interplay of crime and poetry.

Best-selling Camden novelist Paul Doiron has gained no small measure of critical  acclaim for his series of literary thrillers featuring young Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. The first book in the series, The Poacher’s Son, won the Barry and Strand Critics Awards, and was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Thriller, and Macavity Awards. Of The Poacher’s Son, Publishers Weekly said in its starred review, “Down East editor-in-chief Doiron takes a provocative look at the ties between father and sons, unconditional love, and Maine’s changing landscape in his outstanding debut . . . Equally a story of relationships and an outdoor adventure, this evocative thriller is sure to put Doiron on several must-read lists.”

The second book, Trespasser, recently won the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Best Crime Fiction. Booklist’s starred review declared it “a masterpiece of high-octane narrative.” The eagerly awaited third book, Bad Little Falls, is due out in August.

Fans of Doiron’s literary thrillers may not realize that he’s not the only writer in the family. Wife Kristen Lindquist is a published poet with two chapbooks, Invocation to the Birds and Bald & Ragged Mountains: Poetry of Place, in addition to the recent book Transportation, which was a finalist for the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Best Poetry Book. Her poems have been published in a variety of venues, and several have recently been read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio’s “The Writer’s Almanac.”

Doiron is the Editor-in-Chief of Down East, as well as a board member of the Maine Humanities Council and a former member of the Maine Arts Commission. Lindquist works as Development Director for Coastal Mountains Land Trust. They reside in Lindquist’s hometown of Camden.