FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program is proud to present Melissa Falcon Field, author and 1998 UMF graduate, as the next reader in its popular Visiting Writers Series. Falcon Field will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 5, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author.
Falcon Field is the author of “What Burns Away,” her recently released debut novel. She has been a recipient of the Katherine Anne Porter Writer-in-Residence appointment and attended the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference.
For nearly a decade, she worked as an inner city schoolteacher with Teach for America and AmeriCorps in New York, Boston and San Francisco. She helped pioneer the YEAR UP writing curriculum used nationally. She has taught Creative Writing at small colleges across the country and currently works as an instructor at The Madison Writers’ Studio.
Her writing has appeared in literary magazines and journals, including: Hip Momma: The Parenting Zine, Kaliope Literary Journal, The Portland Phoenix, Across Curriculums, The Austin American Statesmen, The Ballantine Books Reader’s Circle, The Hartford Courant and The Maine Scholar.
Falcon Field earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Texas State University. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her young son, her husband and three chickens.
