FARMINGTON — Author Bret Anthony Johnston will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, at the University of Maine at Farmington. The presentation is in The Landing in the Olsen Student Center.

The reading is part of UMF’s Visiting Writer Series. It is free and open to the public. A meet-and-greet with Johnston will follow.

Johnston is the author of the internationally best-selling novel “Remember Me Like This,” which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and the winner of the 2015 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns Prize. The book has been translated around the world and is being made into a major motion picture.

Johnston is also the author of the award-winning “Corpus Christi: Stories,” which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Independent and The Irish Times. He is the editor of “Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer.”

Johnston teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars and at Harvard University, where he is the director of creative writing.