FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington’s Creative Writing program will present poet and nonfiction author Connie Voisine at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13.

The presentation, part of the Visiting Writers Series, will take place in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. It’s free and open to the public. A meet-and-greet will follow.

Voisine, a Fort Kent native, is the author of three books of poetry. Her first book, “Cathedral of the North,” was the winner of the Associated Writing Program’s Award in Poetry. Her next book, “Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream,” was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award. Her most recent book of poetry is “Calle Florista.”

Voisine has had poems published in Poetry Magazine, the New Yorker and elsewhere. In 2012 she was a Fulbright Fellow to Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

She currently teaches in the creative writing program at New Mexico State University and coordinates La Sociedad para las Artes.