Nina MacLaughlin

Nina MacLaughlin is an American writer.^[1][2] Her memoir Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, discusses her decision to restart her career.^[3][4][5] MacLaughlin's work has also been published in Boston Magazine, LA Review of Books, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast and The Boston Globe.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]} She was also recognized in Refiner29's list of "21 New Authors You Need to Know."^[12] MacLaughlin won the 2024 Massachusetts Center of the Book award for her nonfiction book Winter Solstice.^[13]

Books

• Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, W. W. Norton & Company, 2015
• Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019
• Summer Solstice: An Essay, Black Sparrow Press, 2020
• Winter Solstice: An Essay, Black Sparrow Press, 2023

Interviews

• NPR^[14]
• New York Magazine^[15]
• The Millions^[16]