UMF Visiting Writer Series welcomes poet Erinrose Mager, Nov. 12

FARMINGTON, ME  (October 28, 2026)—The University of Maine at Farmington is excited to present poet Erinrose Mager as the final reader of the 2026 fall semester in its popular Visiting Writers series.

Mager is the author of “Hot Fruit” (Fonograf Editions, 2026) and “Sequence” (Factory Hollow Press), forthcoming in 2027. Her work appears in Electric Literature, Fence, DIAGRAM, and BOMB among others.

Mager will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, 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.

Mager’s debut collection investigates the longing for self, the longing for another, and the longing for connection between the self and another when the other is inherently unknowable. Within the collection are themes of fractured memory, culinary ritual, and threads of a fable cycle that reimagines Korean myths, legends and contemporary media through the lens of the adoptee experience.

Mager earned her MFA and was awarded a Senior Fiction Fellowship from Washington University. She teaches creative writing at The Brooklyn Writers Foundry MFA program and St. Joseph’s University and is the Fiction Editor ant Brink Literary. Hot Fruit is Mager’s debut collection.

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

More Information on the UMF Creative Writing Program

As the only Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program in the state of Maine and one of only three in all of New England, the UMF program invites students to work with faculty, who are practicing writers, in workshop-style classes to discover and develop their writing strengths in the genres of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Small classes, an emphasis on individual conferencing, and the development of a writing portfolio allow students to see themselves as artists and refine their writing under the guidance of accomplished and published faculty mentors.

Students can pursue internships to gain real-world writing and publishing experience by working on campus with The Sandy River Review, a student-run literary magazine or The Farmington Flyer, a university student newspaper.

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Media Contact: Amy Neswald, UMF professor of creative writing, at amy.neswald@maine.edu.

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