The reading is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a book-signing. Ann Fisher-Wirth is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Dream Cabinet (2012), Carta Marina (2009), Five Terraces (2005), and Blue Window (2003). A past president of the Association for Literature and the Environment, Ann is co-editor with Laura-Gray Street of the international anthology of eco-poetry, Earth's Body, forthcoming in 2012 from Trinity University Press. In 2002-2003 she held the Chair of American Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden.