FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program is excited to present author Maria Flook as the upcoming writer in UMF’s 2013-14 Visiting Writers Series. Flook will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., Thur., March 27, 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.
A 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award recipient, Flook is the author of the nonfiction books New York Times Bestseller “Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod” and “My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister’s Disappearance.” Her newest novel, “Mothers and Lovers,” is due October 2014 from Roundabout Press.
Her fiction includes the novels “Lux,” “Open Water” and “Family Night,” which received a PEN American/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Special Citation, and a collection of stories, “You Have the Wrong Man.” She has also published two collections of poetry, “Sea Room” and “Reckless Wedding,” winner of the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Series.
Her work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The New Criterion, TriQuarterly, and More Magazine, among others. Flook is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston.
