AUTHOR TALK: Jenny Offill

An evening at the Library with acclaimed author Jenny Offill, who reads from her celebrated novel Weather – followed by an intimate conversation and an audience Q&A.

Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Weather, Dept. of Speculation (a New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year), and Last Things. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and was a finalist for the Folio Prize, the Pen/Faulkner Award, and the Women’s Prize. Hailed by the Boston Globe as “strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible,” her work offers a profoundly humane and timely lens on the world. She lives in upstate New York and is a writer-in-residence at Bard College.

This September 19, 2026 program was co-hosted by Lighthouse Works and presented as part of the Harry S. Parker III Visiting Artist Program, which brings distinguished writers and artists to Fishers Island to engage with Lighthouse Works Fellows and the island community.