FARMINGTON – Award-winning nonfiction writer and poet Cynthia Huntington will read from her work at the University of Maine at Farmington at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10, in Thomas Auditorium in UMF’S Ricker Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.

Huntington directs the creative writing program at Dartmouth College. Last year she appeared, in UMF’S Alice James Books Reading Series to read her poetry. Derived from her approach as a poet, Huntington’s nonfiction has a lyrical style, whose combination of description, mood, and interior revelation has appealed to reviewers.

Huntington has won grants in creative writing from the NEA, and from state councils in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. She has also received the Levis Award and Alice James Book’s Beatrice Hawley Award, and in January, was appointed as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.

The reading will be followed by a book signing. The Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the UMF Creative Writing Program and the UMF Writers Guild.

For more information, call (207) 778-7425.