LEWISTON – A Colby College professor will be at Lewiston-Auburn College Thursday to read excerpts from a book she wrote about her own experience of changing her gender.

Jennifer Finney Boylan’s memoir, “She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders,” chronicles her evolution of James Boylan, a English professor at Colby College and a married father of two, into the person she is today.

The book has been described by critics as a sensitive examination of the issues of sex, love, gender and family.

Recently released in paperback by Doubleday/Broadway Books, a division of Random House, the book has already won an award from the Lambda Literary Foundation. It also was chosen as an alternate in the Book of the Month Club.

A novelist, screenwriter and teacher, Boylan has taught writing and American literature at Colby since 1988. In 2000, she was chosen by students as the Charles Walker Bassett Professor of the Year.

Her previously published books included “The Planets” and “Getting In.”

Her visit to Lewiston is being co-sponsored by the women’s studies program at University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn College and the Center for Sexualities & Gender Diversity.

The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.