Renowned author Dawn Potter is coming to Warren County.

The Warren Community College Visiting Authors Series continues on Thursday, November 10, with a reading by Potter, whose prose and poetry can be seen in multiple books.

This event, beginning at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.

Potter is the author or editor of nine books of prose and poetry—most recently the poetry collection Accidental Hymn. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, she has also won a Maine Literary Award for nonfiction and has received grants and fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Writer’s Center, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, The Sewanee Review, The Threepenny Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and many other journals in the United States and abroad. Potter directs poetry and teaching programs at the Frost Place as well as the high school studio writing program at Monson Arts. She lives in Portland, Maine.

The reading will be followed by a brief Q & A with the audience and a book signing. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

The Visiting Authors Series is supported by a grant from the Warren County Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs. All physical site facilities comply with ADA regulations and are fully accessible. Sign language interpretation for any VAS event is available with two weeks’ notice.

On Tuesday, December 6, Terrance Hayes, Recipient of the National Book Award for Poetry and author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018), will be next up with a reading that evening.

Warren Community College, located at 475 Route 57 West in Washington, NJ, offers students the option of earning an Associate of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, the first and only degree of its kind in New Jersey. For more information about the A.F.A. in Creative Writing, please visit www.warren.edu or call 908-835-WCCC.