Monica Wood is a novelist, memoirist, and playwright. Her novel The One-in-a-Million Boy has been translated into twenty languages. When We Were the Kennedys, a memoir, was a New England bestseller, Oprah magazine summer-reading pick, and winner of the May Sarton Memoir Award and the Maine Literary Award. Wood is the 2019 recipient of the Maine Humanities Council Carlson Prize for contributions to the public humanities, and the 2018 Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Distinguished Achievement Award for contributions to the literary arts. Her novel Meanwhile will be published in May 2023 by Mariner.
