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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Authors Jay Ponteri and Natalie Serber will read from their most recent books at Oregon State University on Friday, Jan. 17, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Valley Library rotunda. A question and answer session and book signing will follow.

This event is part of the 2013-2014 Literary Northwest Series,

Ponteri is author of the memoir, "Wedlocked," (2013) and "Darkmouth Strikes Again," a chapbook of short prose, which will be released this summer. His essay, "Listen to This" was mentioned as a Notable Essay in "Best American Essays 2010." Ponteri directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Marylhurst University and Show:Tell: The Workshop for Teen Writers & Artists.

Renee Nicholson of "The Los Angeles Review" writes, "Sometimes filled with raw sexual ambition, other times quietly sad and contemplative, Ponteri dares memoir to go in a bold direction, with precedence on the intimacy between writer and reader."

Serber's debut story collection, "Shout Her Lovely Name," (2012) was a New York Times Notable Book of 2012 and a summer reading pick by "O, the Oprah Magazine." Serber teaches at Marylhurst University and is working on a novel set in Boring, Ore.  

Joan Frank of The San Francisco Chronicle writes that Serber's story collection "plunges us into the humid heat and lightning of a perfect storm: that of American mothers and daughters struggling for power, love, meaning, and identity...Serber's writing sparkles: practical, strong, brazenly modern, marbled with superb descriptions."

The Literary Northwest Series brings Pacific Northwest writers to OSU. This program is made possible by support from the Valley Library and OSU Press, the OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film, the College of Liberal Arts, Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele, and Grass Roots Books and Music.