Kerri Arsenault

The Human Landscape

“I try to avoid divisive political or activist narratives that condescend to underserved people. What if we immerse readers in slowness rather than the spectacle of disaster?”

Vacationland

Morgan Talty’s stories about a Penobscot family are set where Maine’s millions of tourists don’t tend to go: in places damaged by toxic pollutants or opioids, bankrupted by government inaction, devoured by poverty, haunted by our country’s colonial past.

My Eighty-Six Jobs

While I couldn’t pull myself out of the clogged sink trap of minimum wages until I married the right man, my father had no choice but to accept the bargain of being steadily poisoned by the industry that sustained him.