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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Author Justin St. Germain, a new faculty member at Oregon State University, will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16.

The reading will be in the Valley Library Rotunda, 201 S.W. Waldo Place, Corvallis. A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public.

St. Germain joined OSU's creative writing program this year as an assistant professor. His first book, the memoir "Son of a Gun," was published by Random House. The book chronicles his mother's murder, the reverberations of grief, and the culture of guns and violence in the Arizona desert.

"Son of a Gun" won the 2013 Barnes & Noble Discover Award in nonfiction and was named a best book of 2013 by Amazon, Amazon Canada, Library Journal, BookPage, Salon, Publisher's Weekly and the Pima County Public Library.

St. Germain's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Hobart, Barrelhouse, and various other journals, magazines, and anthologies, including the Best of the West series. He is the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Sewanee Writers' Conference, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Marsh McCall Lecturer at Stanford University.

The reading is part of the 2015-2016 Literary Northwest Series, sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film. The series brings Pacific Northwest writers to OSU and is made possible with support from the OSU Libraries and 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.