The  Department of English's M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Translation is proud to present a reading and Q & A with author Taylor Brorby at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, in the Willard and Pat Walker Community Room of the Fayetteville Public Library. The reading is free and open to the public; a book signing with Brorby will follow.

Brorby is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Huffington Post and Literary Hub and been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, the MacDowell Colony and the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. Brorby's been interviewed about his work on MSNBC and NPR and serves on the editorial boards of Hub City Press and Terrain.org. He is a contributing editor at North American Review and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama.

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About the U of A M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Translation: For 50 years, the University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation has served as a preeminent training ground for some of the nation's best writers. Established in 1966, ours is one of the oldest M.F.A. programs in the nation and one of the most innovative, offering degree tracks in poetry, fiction, and literary translation.