FARMINGTON—The University of Maine at Farmington bachelor of fine arts in creative writing program presents fiction author Mark Polanzak as the next reader in its popular Visiting Writers Series. Polanzak will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a meet-and-greet with the author.

Polanzak’s first book, “Pop!,” is a hybrid work, combining elements of memoir with short fiction and essay. He is a founding editor of “draft: The Journal of Process” and a producer for The Fail Safe podcast. Runner-up for the 2014 Italo Calvino Prize for fabulist fiction, his stories have appeared in Third Coast, The Southern Review, The American Scholar and other publications. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona.