Nick Googins, winner of Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels 2023 by The Washington Post, to read as next UMF Visiting Writer, Feb 13

FARMINGTON, ME  (January 27, 2025)鈥The 名媛直播 is excited to present author Nick Fuller Googins as the first reader of the 2025 spring semester schedule of its popular Visiting Writers series.

His debut novel 鈥淭he Great Transition鈥 (Atria Books, 2024), was voted Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels 2023 by The Washington Post and earned a Goodreads choice award nomination. In it Googins investigates a post climate crisis future in which the resiliency and heavy lifting of a few stakeholders in the past have crafted an unstable Utopia of the future. The story balances progress versus complacency within this landscape of the environment and family dynamics.

Nick Fuller Googins

Nick Fuller Googins


Googins will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 13, in the Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing with the author.

Of the book, author Michelle Min Sterling writes 鈥淣ick Fuller Googins has written a book for the present and the future 鈥 read this and you will be changed.鈥 The Washington Post鈥檚 Becky Meloan writes, 鈥淕oogins eerily imagines a world where the interests of a few are prioritized over the health of the planet and illustrates how future generations might puzzle about why people once chose to look the other way.鈥

鈥淭he Great Transition鈥 book cover

Googins’ short fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The Sun, and The Los Angeles Times among others. He is a fellowship recipient at the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, and an advocate for climate change awareness and action.

A graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program, Googins works as an elementary school teacher in Maine.

鈥淭he Great Transition鈥 is available for pre-purchase at the University Store on the UMF campus and Devany, Doak, and Garret Booksellers.

The Visiting Writer Series is sponsored by the UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.

More Information on the UMF Creative Writing Program

As the only Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program in the state of Maine and one of only three in all of New England, the UMF program invites students to work with faculty, who are practicing writers, in workshop-style classes to discover and develop their writing strengths in the genres of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Small classes, an emphasis on individual conferencing, and the development of a writing portfolio allow students to see themselves as artists and refine their writing under the guidance of accomplished and published faculty mentors.

Students can pursue internships to gain real-world writing and publishing experience by working on campus with The Sandy River Review, a student-run literary magazine; or The 名媛直播 Flyer, a university newspaper.

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Media Contact: Amy Neswald, UMF professor of creative writing, at amy.neswald@maine.edu.

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