FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington is bringing author Marc Nieson, whose writings span fiction, creative nonfiction and screenwriting, to the campus as the next reader in its Visiting Writers Series.

Sponsored by the UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, the reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center.

The reading is free and open to the public, to be followed by a meet and greet with the author.

Nieson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and NYU Film School. His background includes children’s theater, cattle chores and a season with a one-ring circus. His memoir, “Schoolhouse: Lessons on Love & Landscape,” came out from Ice Cube Press in 2016. 

He has won a Raymond Carver Short Story Award, Pushcart Prize nominations and has been noted in Best American Essays.

He teaches on the Master of Fine Arts faculty at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, edits The Fourth River — a journal of nature and place-based writing published at Chatham University — and is at work on a new novel, “Houdini’s Heirs.”  

FMI: www.marcnieson.com

Marc Nieson