This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Barnswallow Books will have copies of Kline’s work for sale. A Q+A and book signing will follow the conversation. Refreshments and light bites provided.

CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including Orphan Train, The Exiles, Please Don’t Lie (co-authored with Anne Burt), and the forthcoming The Foursome (May 2026), Christina Baker Kline is published in more than 40 countries. Her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, among other prizes, and have been chosen by hundreds of communities, universities, and schools as “One Book, One Read” selections. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in publications such as The New York Times and The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The San Francisco Chronicle.Kline was born in Cambridge, England, and raised there as well as in the American South and Maine. She is a graduate of Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing. She has taught at Yale, NYU, UVA, Drew, and Fordham, where she served as Writer-in-Residence. The author or editor of five nonfiction books, she is a recipient of numerous Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and Writer-in-Residence Fellowships. A resident of New York City and Southwest Harbor, Maine, Kline is married to David Kline and has three sons: Hayden, Will, and Eli.