FARMINGTON – Award-winning fiction writer Merrill Feitell will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, in Thomas Auditorium, located in Preble/Ricker Hall at the University of Maine at Farmington.

The reading, hosted by the UMF bachelor of fine arts program in creative writing, is free and open to the public.

Feitell received the 2004 Iowa prize for short fiction for her “Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes,” and she has been selected as one of “Fiction’s New Luminaries” by the Virginia Quarterly Review. Feitell studied writing as an undergraduate at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She currently teaches young writers from ages 6 to 18 at 826NYC, a nonprofit writing center, and hopes to continue teaching writing at the college level.

There will be a question-and-answer session and a book-signing after the reading. The reading is part of the UMF Visiting Writers Series.