WINTHROP –The Bailey Public Library will host award-winning writer and photographer

at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13. All library events are being held at the temporary library on the first floor of the Winthrop Commerce Center at 149 Main Street during construction of the addition to the Bowdoin Street building.

Peppe’s photography and written work have received numerous awards and recognition, including placing first in the 2009 Word Worth Essay and Fiction Contest, and The Starving Writer Literary contest twice. She was one of seven finalists for the 2011 Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award, as well as a Maine Literary Award repeat finalist.

Peppe has an M.F.A. in creative writing from the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine, where she returns as an alumna to teach and photograph. Her new memoir, “Pigs Can’t Swim,” is a 2014 Indie Next List title. She is currently working on a teen novel and her second memoir, “Chasing the Light,” which focuses on photography.

Admission to the event is free and open to the public. Apple Valley Books will have copies of Peppe’s new biography for sale at the event. For more information, call 207-377-8673.