2014's Godwin-Hauser Resident Author: Jaed Muncharoen Coffin
Author of A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
Jaed Muncharoen Coffin will be speaking at Christ School this week as as this our Godwin-Hauser Resident Author. He is the author of A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants (Da Capo/Perseus), a memoir which chronicles his experience as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s native village in Thailand.
Jaed has spoken widely at universities and colleges where his book is taught as a common text in multicultural curriculum initiatives. His forthcoming book, Roughhouse Friday(Riverhead/Penguin), is about the year he fought as the middleweight champion of a barroom boxing show in Juneau, Alaska.Recently, Jaed has served as the 2009 William Sloane Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the 2009-10 Wilson Fellow in Creative Writing at Deerfield Academy, and the 2008 Resident Fellow at the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska. Jaed currently lives and writes in Portland, Maine, and is a faculty member at both the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program and the University of New Hampshire.
Jaed's visit as this year's Godwin-Hauser Resident Author was made possible through an endowment seeded by Col. William Hauser ’50 and the author Gail Godwin, who spent time on this campus as she wrote a book about an all-boys boarding school. The Godwin-Hauser Visiting Writer Program celebrates writing, reading and the connections we make through literature.
Watch his speech from home
His first speech will be tonight at 7:00 p.m. - watch from home with our live-stream starting at 6:45 p.m.: www.christschool.org/live
