FARMINGTON, ME (April 2, 2025)—The University of Maine at Farmington is excited to present a trio of distinguished authors–all UMF graduates –as presenters at the April event of its popular Visiting Writers series.
UMF alumni writers Dennis Camire, Aliza Dube, and Zoe Stonetree will read from their work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17, in the Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing with the authors.
Of the Visiting Writers Series Alumni reading, VWS director Amy Neswald says, “The Visiting Writers series is committed to bringing exciting and evocative writers to Western Maine from across the U.S., but it’s most exciting when we can host our own successful and talented alumni. This event will feature three writers at three different stages of their careers, celebrating the breadth of talent that UMF Creative Writing alumni bring to the profession.”
Dennis Camire – A 1990 UMF graduate, Camire is the recent winner of the Charles Moore Prize and is author of several poetry collections including “Anthology of Awe and Wonder” (Dearbrook Editions, 2024) and “Combed by Crows” (Dearbrook Edition, 2017). He teaches writing at Central Maine Community College. His work has appeared in The Mid-American Review, Poetry East, Spoon River Review, and on Maine Public Radio, among others. He lives in an A-frame in West Paris, Maine. He is also the “spokes-poet” for the mom-and-pop owned company, “Soil Foods,” which farms worms for worm castings.
Dennis Camire
Aliza Dube – Dube graduated from UMF in 2018 with a double major in Creative Writing and Elementary Education. She is currently pursuing her Master’s of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of “The Newly Tattooed’s Guide to Aftercare” (Running Wild Press, 2020) and “The Dependents” (MWPA, 2024).
Aliza Dube
Zoe Stonetree – Stonetree has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Maine Farmington in 2019 and will earn her Master’s of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University, where she was recently co-managing editor of “Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment.” Additionally, Stonetree has worked as an assistant at AGNI, a poetry reader for Harvard Review, and a poetry fellow at Alice James Books. Her essays and poems explore the intersections of local identity, landscape, daily life, artistic practice and Maine.
Zoe Stonetree
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 newspaper.
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Media Contact: Amy Neswald, UMF professor of creative writing, at amy.neswald@maine.edu.
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