Miles's recent works also include 'All Standing' (Simon & Schuster 2011), the true story of the Jeanie Johnston, one of the legendary Irish famine ships that transported immigrants from Ireland to North America. While 100,000 immigrants perished on the other so called 'coffin ships,' Miles tells how the Jeanie Johnston never lost a passenger.

Miles has written about diverse subjects, including, Puerto Rican street food, eel poachers, homing pigeons and lifesavers. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications including 'Best American Essays,' 'Between Song and Story,' 'Ecotone,' 'History,' 'How To Write About Anything,' 'Outside,' 'Popular Mechanics' and The New York Times.

Miles currently serves as writer-in-residence for Green Mountain College and as a faculty member for Chatham University's low-residency MFA program. She is also a scholar-in-residence for the Maine Humanities Council and a member of the Terrain.org editorial board.

She received her PhD in English from the University of Delaware in 2001.

This event is sponsored by the UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.