UNCA’s Writers at Home reading series continues at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 15, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville with readings by local authors Margaret Lynn Brown and Virginia Redfield. Writers at Home is part of the Great Smokies Writing Program, a consortium of the Western North Carolina writers’ community and UNC Asheville’s Creative Writing Program. The program is free and open to the public.

Brown, a native of Minnesota, is the author of "The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains," which brings a fresh perspective to the environmental changes and political controversies surrounding the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. An assistant professor of history at Brevard College, Brown also recently had her essay "What It Means to Stay" included in "The Leap Years: Transitions in the Lives of Women." She has had numerous essays and reviews published in journals such as "Southern Exposure" and "Now and Then." She is currently at work on a novel.

Redfield lives in Asheville and is a retired literature teacher. She holds degrees from Vanderbilt University and Columbia University. She taught at the University of Miami, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Fairfield University, Mattatuck College and Palm Beach Atlantic College. Since retirement, she has enjoyed writing poetry as well as prose. "Raising Voices," "Sunscripts," and "Friends Journal" have published her work. She is currently at work on a memoir about growing up in Miami in the 1920s and '30s.

For more information, call UNCA’s Literature and Language Department at 828/251-6411.