OAKLAND — Maine author Sandra Neily will visit the Oakland Public Library to talk about and read passages from her book “Deadly Trespass, a Mystery in Maine,” at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17.
Neily is a Maine native whose varied career has included working as a registered Maine guide as well as a whitewater river outfitter. An avid outdoorswoman who loves woods, waters, and wildlife, Sandra has paddled, fished, hiked, and skied all over Maine, and enjoys transporting readers into the places she knows so well. She is the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Helen McCloy National award, as well as a finalist for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s Rising Star Contest, and a finalist in the Maine Writers and Publishers’ 2018 Maine Literary Awards competition.
She has served in leadership positions at the Maine Conservation School and Maine Audubon Society. She also received the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s Conservation Award for her work to save the Penobscot River from a dam that would have drowned its famous land-locked salmon fishery and world-class rapids.
Neily lives next to Moosehead Lake with her husband and rescue dog, and enjoys fly fishing, skiing, paddling and being “out there,” except when she’s writing,
The library is at 18 Church St. For more information call the library at 207-475-7533.
