September 5th, 2008

FARMINGTON, ME (September 5, 2008)--University of Maine at Farmington's
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program is proud to present
award-winning poet Cate Marvin as the first reader in its 2007-08 Visiting
Writers Series. Marvin will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday,
September 18, 2007, 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.

Cate Marvin's first book, "World's Tallest Disaster," was chosen by Robert
Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande
Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her
poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review,
Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston
Review, and Ninth Letter. She is co-editor with poet Michael Dumanis of the
anthology "Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century"
(Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of poems, "Fragment of the Head of
a Queen," was published by Sarabande in August 2007.

A recent Whiting Award recipient and 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts
Gregory Millard Fellow, she teaches poetry writing in Lesley University's
Low-Residency M.F.A. Program and is an associate professor in creative
writing at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

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For more information, please contact Jeffrey Thomson, UMF assistant
professor of creative writing at 207-778-7454, or jeffrey.thomson@maine.edu.

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