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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Author Jenny Boully will read from her works on Friday, March 6, at Oregon State University's Valley Library rotunda on the Corvallis campus beginning at 7:30 p.m. A question and answer session and book signing will follow.

Boully is the author of four books, most recently "not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them," from Tarpaulin Sky Press. Her other books include "The Books of Beginnings and Endings," (Sarabande Books) "[one love affair]*" (Tarpaulin Sky Press), and "The Body: An Essay," (Essay Press, first published by Slope Editions).

Boully's chapbook of prose, "Moveable Types," was released by Noemi Press. Her work has been anthologized in "The Best American Poetry," "The Next American Essay," "Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present," and other places.

Boully was born in Thailand and raised in Texas. She attended Hollins University and went on to receive her M.A. in English Criticism and Writing. She also earned a master of fine arts from the University of Notre Dame and holds a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her husband and daughter and teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

The reading is part of the 2014-15 Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film. The series brings nationally known writers to Oregon State University.

The event is free and open to the public. The program is supported by OSU Libraries and Press, the School of Writing, Literature, and Film, the College of Liberal Arts, Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele and Grass Roots Books and Music.

The Valley Library is located at 201 S.W. Waldo Place on the OSU campus in Corvallis.