The University of Maine at Farmington’s Visiting Writers Series is set to present fiction writer Gregory Brown as the program’s final reader of the season.

Brown will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in The Landing at the UMF Olsen Student Center on South Street.

The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing with the author.

Brown’s debut novel, “The Lowering Days,” set in the 1980s in Maine, explores family, the power of myths and environmental exploitation in powerful and poetic prose, according to a news release from the university.

His work has also been published in Green Mountain Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Tin House, and he is the recipient of Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below Prize.

“The Lowering Days” is available for purchase at UMF University Bookstore and Devaney, Doak & Garrett Booksellers.

The Visiting Writer Series is sponsored by the UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.

For the university’s current COVID-19 policy for visitors, go to maine.edu.

Reservations can be made at umf.maine.edu. For more information, contact Amy Neswald, UMF professor of creative writing, at amy.neswald@maine.edu.