BETHEL — Linda Greenlaw, America’s only female swordfishing captain and author of seven best-selling books, will be featured as the next Down Home Maine program put on by the Western Mountains Senior College.

Greenlaw will hold a storytelling session from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 18, at Gould Academy’s McLaughlin Trustees Auditorium.

Greenlaw’s latest book, “Seaworthy: a Swordfish Boat Captain Returns to the Sea,” follows three New York Times best-selling books about life as a commercial fisherman: “The Hungry Ocean,” “The Lobster Chronicles” and “All Fishermen are Liars.”

Greenlaw won the U.S. Maritime Literature Award in 2003, and the New England Book Award for nonfiction in 2004. She has also written two mysteries, “Slipknot” and “Fisherman’s Bend,” in 2007 and 2008, respectively.

But it is her cookbooks that will be featured at the Mill Hill Inn, as she helps prepare the night’s dinner.

Greenlaw is working on a second cookbook. Her first, “Recipes from a Very Small Island,” was co-authored with her mother, Martha Greenlaw, and hailed by Time Magazine as a “must-have cookbook.”

Greenlaw, who lives on Isle au Haut, is featured in the Discovery Channel series “Swords: Life on the Line”  and has appeared on “Good Morning America,” “Today,” “CBS Sunday Morning,”  “The Martha Stewart Show” and National Public Radio.

Admission to the 4 p.m. storytelling session is free.

At 5:45 p.m., there will be a book signing at the Mill Hill Inn, where Greenlaw will collaborate on dinner preparations. Seating is limited. Reservations must be received by Feb. 12. Call 824-3241.