Join Cambridge Common Writers for our first duo-book launch event as we celebrate the publications of The Rest of Your Life Soundtrack by Benjamin Roesch (Fiction, January 2016) and Without You Here by Jody Hobbs Hesler (Fiction, June 2017)! Moderated by Michael Mercurio (Poetry, January 2017).

BENJAMIN ROESCH is a writer, musician, teacher, podcaster, award-winning essayist, and author of the debut YA novel, Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze. For twelve glorious, exhausting years, he was a high school English teacher, and is now a full-time writer based in Burlington, VT, where he lives with his family.

JODY HOBBS HESLER is the author of the story collection What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better (Cornerstone Press, October 2023), and the novel, Without You Here (Flexible Press, September 2024). Her words also appear in Necessary Fiction, Gargoyle, Valparaiso Fiction Review (x, x), Atticus Review, Writer’s Digest, Electric Literature, CRAFT, Arts & Letters, and many other journals. She teaches at WriterHouse in Charlottesville, Virginia; writes and copyedits for Virginia Wine & Country Life and Charlottesville Family Magazine; and serves as assistant fiction editor for the Los Angeles Review.